The ghosts have entered the chat.
Dear member of the audience,
I am coming to you with a small handful of words this Halloween. Some reminders, some news, and a few recommendations to support what you and I both need the most these days - a connection to what's good about us humans, I suppose.
1. Appearances this November
2. Ghost music
3. Recommendation corner for the gloomy season
1.
I am playing at Rechenzentrum Potsdam with my band Twin Tooth on November 6th!
One of our extremely rare live appareances. It'll be an intimate duo show.
If you are in Berlin, it will be over early enough so you could take the train back to the city!
I'd love to see you.
That's it.
2.
Please consider these four pieces of spooky music from my back catalogue on this sacred holiday:
Squalloscope & Myles Bullen - Do You Believe?
A sweet song about corporate bloodsuckers and emotional vampires, written and recorded on Myles' living room floor in Portland, Maine, a year ago.
Squalloscope - Spirit Week
In the spirit of girl power, this is a fragile piece of music from the perspective of a woman's ghost who is making her murderer's life a living hell.
Ceschi Ramos & Squalloscope - We Don't Stand A Chance
Adding this terrifying tune for good measure, because what's scarier than the internet algorithms?
Squalloscope & Andy the Doorbum - Little Ones
Bonus track, for one could say this song from our performance film "Thistle & Phlox" is not un-creepy.
Andy is releasing his fist solo album in years tomorrow November 1st. I highly recommend giving it a listen or thirteen.
3.
Three recommendations that have nothing (and everything) to do with my own work:
a. "Women Talking" is one of my favorite movies of the past couple years. It's streaming on Amazon Prime at the moment, I believe. I think you might need to go watch it.
b. If you are in Vienna, the current Louise Bourgeois exhibit at Belvedere is breathtaking. I mean, I personally enjoyed it, I feel a close emotional connection to her work. Maybe if you love what I do, you'll love this too. Put yourself in the museum on one of these gloomy autumn days. It's very good for the spirit.
c. This poem by Ada Limón:
For those who use instagram, I wrote something last night about the inability to comprehend the state of the world right now, it has typos in it and is not neatly edited, but if you want to read it, it's in the stories.
Go outside if you can. Watch toddlers interact with toddlers to remember not everything is about hardened opinions and choosing sides. Consume art made in years of crisis by those who lacked power. Look to the people, not the governments. Listen to folk music from everywhere. Don't let anybody tell you that we don't all have equally complex, joyful, grieving, loving, meaningful lives. You know better. You know that every single baby born this very second on earth must have the chance to lead a full, safe, rich life without trauma. I am pretty sure you do.
Thank you for reading. Don't ghost me.
Anna / Squalloscope
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