New Album Out Now!

Here it is– ‘You’re Just A Place That I Know’. This is a song-cycle about my Ukrainian grandparents’ story, mostly told through my Baba’s (grandmother’)” eyes. I started writing this album way back in 2018 and it feels good to finally send it out of the house.

 At the core of the narrative is a theme of memory–blurry and faded one moment, clear as a photograph the next. Through these lenses the arc of our stories is (imperfectly) told. The album's title, You're Just A Place That I Know, seeks to encapsulate this. That phrase (and its accompanying melodic theme) recur throughout the record, meaning different things. Sometimes it describes a place dissolving into dream; sometimes it's a derisive statement, like my Baba’s contempt for a city that hasn't accepted her yet; or sometimes it's familiar and loving, as it describes her husband in laying him to rest- "you're just a place that I know; for now".

I’d suggest making like it’s 1999 and listening to this as an album, start to finish. If you get it from my Bandcamp page, there is a lovely PDF booklet with the lyrics, stories and artwork. But it’s also streaming wherever you paddle.