15/09/2023
#9/10 singles out! YES 😄 Really love this one (too). A song for Bill Callahan's beautiful voice, can hear him sing so clearly in my mind. ❤️ Listen to "Bring This to Bill" wherever you love to listen to music, like here: https://open.spotify.com/album/6JjPp43csKW5SHe1LdWRXv?si=OjS4HAcyTv2RJjBZPywRpw
If you want to read the lyrics, Bandcamp is your place: https://cecilieanna.bandcamp.com/track/bring-this-to-bill-2
For the nerds: Working with the new album, Cecilie Anna decided to write a solo song for Bill Callahan’s voice. Her love for his singing stretches back twelve years. She loves the dark ring to Callahan’s voice and the beautiful simplicity carried within it. The lyric of the song is a portrait of how words lead us when we’re not thinking. The inner structures of our feelings, experiences, relationships made audible through the repetition of thoughts.
Cecilie Anna has barely ridden a horse, but she’s certain Bill Callahan has done it a lot, or at least his voice has. The tranquility it possesses resembles that which you can find if you’re in contact with animals over time. Cecilie Anna merely lit the thought and the song started to evolve in her head. The recording is only the second time she’s sung the song out loud.
The soundscape was built by Cecilie Anna from recorded sounds, with the dark, deep rumbling sound from an electrical toothbrush. The sound of her little girl in the beginning.
Recording, mix, co-producing and playing the bass accordion: Gisle Østrem a.k.a Sir Sound Productions. Thank you forever ❤️
Mastered by Alex Wharton in Abbey Road Studios
Cover image by Cecilie Anna’s favourite photographer, P**l Audestad, taken on their trip to Manchester in 2019.
Thank you all for reading, supporting and listening - it really means the world ❤️
Next single next friday - the last one before the big album release day! Yay!
Love, CA