Open Spaces Album Preview

Aug 25, 2019

With the Album Preview out today I thought it fitting to share a few thoughts on what this all means to me…

I’ve loved art since I can remember, sketching being my earliest remembered passion. My mother tells me that she would sometimes find me bent over a well-worn piece of paper, working intently on a particular detail of a face. She would watch me draw and re-draw that detail, frustrated by how my attempts did not match the vision I had for the portrait and furiously trying to rectify each mis-stroke with my much abused eraser until the paper gave way under my redactions. I would cry in frustration at the irreversible damage done to my art that my eraser could now never fix.

I have found myself in a similar compulsion with this album.

These tracks represent almost 3 years of effort, and still sometimes I feel like there is a hole that all my efforts can’t fix. I’m finally at a place, though, where I am ready to let it be what it is.

There’s a lot more to say and time is on our side. So, one month from today I’ll be releasing these well-worn songs as a full length album. I’m excited, nervous, and a bit scared. There’s a lot that is good about this process, though, and grace abounds, as they say.

I hope that you will take a few minutes to listen to the preview here.

And check out the full title track ‘Open Spaces’ streaming here.

I hope that you feel the expansiveness of the open spaces that are within you today. I hope that you feel full of a goodness that is all your own. And I hope that you will chose that expansiveness over the fear, loneliness, despair, and aggression that might threaten to make you shrink.

Until soon,

Remona Jeannine