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“Some Kind of Heaven“ belongs to an unexpected collection of new songs I'm calling “Mother“ which will release one at a time leading up to Mother's Day, 2023. My mom passed away very suddenly last year in March. In the days right after, I sat down at my piano, which felt like a friend, and wrote a song called “Mother“ in her honor. I tried to get back into writing songs for my Atlas: III project, but I wasn't ready. Instead, unexpected songs and themes began to surface that was my own way of processing and untangling the grief of such a huge loss in my life. Music is my way of understanding myself and so these songs naturally came to life from what I was experiencing. These “Mother“ songs needed to be written before continuing on in my Atlas: III project. It's bittersweet for this collection of music to begin to release now, at the first anniversary of losing my mom, but I'm really grateful for each of these songs, which felt deeply comforting to write. As we all have experienced loss and longing, I am honored to share them with you and hope that they can somehow be a source of comfort and connection for you as well. I'll be recording episodes of The Sleeping At Last Podcast for each song, talking through grief, death, loss and hope. Today, “To Be Enchanted“ is out everywhere, along with its podcast episode. Huge thanks to Sharon Gerber who played Cellos and Anya-Katerina Gerber who played Violins!! And to Chris Bethea for mastering this song, as well as artist, Joey Chou who painted the gorgeous cover art (Joey is one of my Mom's favorite artists of all time, so it means so much to me that he would be willing to create the cover art for each of these “Mother“ songs)
