Tanya Donnelly frolicked in Throwing Muses and the Breeders earlier than forming her personal trio Stomach, and that resume is sufficient to set up her as one of many biggest alt-rockers of the ’90s. Final 12 months, she launched Swan Track Collection (Vol. 1), an EP of collaborations. At the moment, she’s teamed up with the LA-based Brazilian musician Gabi Lima to launch a brand new track referred to as “Golden Lower.”
Gabi Lima contacted Tanya Donnelly with the essential concept for “Golden Lower,” after which the 2 of them wrote the track collectively. It’s a twangy, shimmering midtempo jam, and it makes nice use of Donnelly’s voice. Right here’s what she says about it:
A bit over a 12 months in the past, Gabi Lima despatched me the music for this track with the road “recessive gene swimming upstream”, accompanied by a lovely description of her idea for the track. We acquired on a zoom name, and she or he held up a pine cone for example of the Fibonacci sequence, and the golden part (golden ratio, golden imply, or Gabi’s selection: golden lower). She envisioned the pinecone as an analogue for the continuum of household, and extra particularly, the matrilineal spiral of mom/daughter/mom/daughter. (The golden part is seemingly current in a DNA molecule on this approach: it measures 34 x 21 angstroms for every cycle of the double helix spiral ~ 34 and 21 being a part of the Fibonacci sequence.)
Having held an amateurish curiosity within the golden ratio for a very long time, I cherished this concept, and the picture of a rogue recessive gene trying to make a break for it. From that first dialog, we traded lyrics backwards and forwards, tweaked construction, after which invited a few of our very favourite individuals to play ~ Gail Greenwood, Magen Tracy, Melissa Gibbs, and Tamora Gooding.
Among the phrases on this track are pulled from our texts to one another ~ the possum within the fig tree, the swan feathers on duckweed. Gabi and I are each literal tree-huggers and can sometimes ship one another pics of the vegetation and creatures we come throughout on our walks, and we included a few of these snaps within the lyrics.
Gabi had the concept to launch the track round Mom’s Day, a loaded and layered weekend for a lot of. The luckiest amongst us are in a position to describe household ties as “difficult”, and this track covers a few of that, I believe. The navigational choices made round these relationships, whether or not for peace, for love, for assist, for escape, generally for survival ~ and the shifts made as we go and develop. Talking for myself alone, it’s each arduous and wholesome work teasing out the patterns and scripts of household, and it’s ever ongoing.
Anyhoo. That is our track! We prefer it so much and hope you do, too. I’m dedicating it right here to my very own stunning mama, who I really like very dearly and who incorporates multitudes, and in addition to my deeply missed grandmothers, superb daughters, and beloved Bub.
Please try Gabi’s BC web page ~ should you don’t know her but, she is a crazy-talented multi-intstrumentalist, singer/songwriter, and producer/engineer.
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Learn our We’ve Bought A File On You interview with Tanya Donnelly right here.
