Hiya, this is a collection of songs originally written in a workshop with Julia Holter during the summer of 2020 via CAMP. All proceeds will be donated to Oakland’s Planting Justice. Thanks for listening!

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About Planting Justice:
Established in 2009, Planting Justice promotes food sovereignty, economic justice, and community healing. They have built 450 edible permaculture gardens in the SF Bay Area and created green jobs in the food justice movement for those transitioning from prison. plantingjustice.org

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Notes:

"witch hats"
This is an automatic writing exercise in which some aspect of the piece is improvised and uninhibited. I wrote words and thoughts related to things I saw or felt in a notebook as I walked from my apartment to Ocean Beach in San Francisco through Golden Gate Park. I also made field recordings throughout the walk. This then became the basis of the piece in which I recited each of the lines at random and manipulated parameters in a Max/MSP granular synth patch as it recorded continuously.

This excerpt from “Infinite City” by Rebecca Solnit which inspired me to take this walk and choose the particular methods above:
“A book is an elegant technique for folding a lot of surface area into a compact, convenient volume; a library is likewise a compounding of such volumes, a temple of compression of many worlds. A city itself strikes me at times as a sort of library, folding many phenomena into one dense space…a folding together of cosmologies and riches and poverties and possibilities”

"a long now"
This is a phonetic translation of a song called “Araw na lubhang mapanglaw” (“Day of Deep Mourning”) from an album of songs by the Philippine National Democratic Struggle called “Philippines Bangon! ARISE!". "Araw" is part of an album of revolutionary songs written during protests of Ferdinand Marcos’ military dictatorship in the 1970s. The original song was dedicated to Francis Santillano, who was an activist slain during a peaceful protest. It is a song for fallen revolutionaries to turn grief into revolutionary courage and action. It's a song that struck me as it eerily echoes our now in so many ways. The English lyrics are phonetic approximations of the original Tagalog lyrics, not a direct translation. Here, the original lyrics and phonetic translation are layered on top of one another.

"tender garden"
a song with some secrets (sorry!)