“Music Box Girl” from Winter Shadows [playlist]
Last year I found one of my Nana’s music boxes tucked away in my things. It plays a melody I love but can’t identify by name, haunting and melancholy. I wind it up and listen. As the music elongates and the figurine spins ever slower till she stops, I wonder about my own life as a musician-turned-pro and the seemingly endless effort it takes to be one in a society that continues to devalue the makers of art in favour of its takers. So I wove her song into mine and a long-time collaborator helped bring our story to life.