It is amazing how impactful the place were you live, exist, meet the challenges of your life can be. The part of town you hang in, shop, visit parks, walk past the other inhabitants can sometimes make or break you. Most definitely, places, cities, public spaces have vibes that deeply shape your life positively or negatively. I think this is especially noticed, felt, when you go to downtown spaces, some are so artfully alive and some feel like decaying tombs.
"7th St/ 7th Ave" by koleżanka (Phoenix born and Brooklyn-based Kristina Moore with percussionist/multi-instrumentalist Ark Calkins) is infused by the psychic energy of places.
"7th St/ 7th Ave" is from koleżanka's first album for Bar/None Records called "Place Is" due to drop on July 30th.
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https://www.facebook.com/kolezanka1
https://kolezanka.bandcamp.com/
Phoenix born and Brooklyn-based Kristina Moore, along with percussionist/multi-instrumentalist Ark Calkins, writes songs about the anti-place, a state of being understood by truckers, deckhands, flight attendants, and touring musicians. An in-between existence where home becomes blurry, and improvised routines provide temporary comfort. Her songs grapple with the anxieties we often push away, or have been trained to view as normal. Speaking to her exploration of the emotional and psychological connection to place, Moore says:
"This song lyrically encapsulates a lot of what the record was written about; being here while being there. I was feeling physically split between different homes. I had a home in Phoenix, a home in Brooklyn, and various homes I’d found while being on the road. As I spent time in one place, I felt the other grow farther. I have thought often about “place” vs “space” the past three years. What makes space a place. If a place is only physically spaced.
I used to have awful PTSD flashbacks and heavy dissociation, both of which would function differently, but would leave me feeling disoriented as if I had truly left my body and gone to another place and then come back and forget where I actually am. More recently, I’ve found myself caught in bouts of nostalgia, where I get caught in a memory and lose my footing in a physical space because the memory is so cinematic. Or I found myself returning home to Phoenix after moving and every part of the city felt filled entirely by events spanning years and it felt overwhelming.
The song moves in three parts between three separate homes I was feeling all at once: walking from 7th st to 7th ave in Phoenix while the sun was setting, leaving Darlings at 3am one night in Bushwick and feeling this urge to run back to my apartment as fast as I could, and being at Barton Springs in Austin Texas on a tour, after visiting Barton Springs several times on several tours over a few years, and watching some kids climb a high tree and swinging into the spring from a rope over and over."
koleżanka, Brooklyn based, Kristina Moore, singer songwriter, Art Calkins, percussionist / multi-instrumentalist, indie rock, shoegaze-esque, dream pop, "7th St/ 7th Ave"
[...songs about the anti-place, a state of being understood by truckers, deckhands, flight attendants, and touring musicians. An in-between existence where home becomes blurry, and improvised routines provide temporary comfort. Her songs grapple with the anxieties we often push away, or have been trained to view as normal...]
Moore shares:
"This song lyrically encapsulates a lot of what the record was written about; being here while being there. I was feeling physically split between different homes. I had a home in Phoenix, a home in Brooklyn, and various homes I’d found while being on the road. As I spent time in one place, I felt the other grow farther. I have thought often about “place” vs “space” the past three years. What makes space a place. If a place is only physically spaced.
I used to have awful PTSD flashbacks and heavy dissociation, both of which would function differently, but would leave me feeling disoriented as if I had truly left my body and gone to another place and then come back and forget where I actually am. More recently, I’ve found myself caught in bouts of nostalgia, where I get caught in a memory and lose my footing in a physical space because the memory is so cinematic. Or I found myself returning home to Phoenix after moving and every part of the city felt filled entirely by events spanning years and it felt overwhelming.
The song moves in three parts between three separate homes I was feeling all at once: walking from 7th st to 7th ave in Phoenix while the sun was setting, leaving Darlings at 3am one night in Bushwick and feeling this urge to run back to my apartment as fast as I could, and being at Barton Springs in Austin Texas on a tour, after visiting Barton Springs several times on several tours over a few years, and watching some kids climb a high tree and swinging into the spring from a rope over and over."
I used to have awful PTSD flashbacks and heavy dissociation, both of which would function differently, but would leave me feeling disoriented as if I had truly left my body and gone to another place and then come back and forget where I actually am. More recently, I’ve found myself caught in bouts of nostalgia, where I get caught in a memory and lose my footing in a physical space because the memory is so cinematic. Or I found myself returning home to Phoenix after moving and every part of the city felt filled entirely by events spanning years and it felt overwhelming.
The song moves in three parts between three separate homes I was feeling all at once: walking from 7th st to 7th ave in Phoenix while the sun was setting, leaving Darlings at 3am one night in Bushwick and feeling this urge to run back to my apartment as fast as I could, and being at Barton Springs in Austin Texas on a tour, after visiting Barton Springs several times on several tours over a few years, and watching some kids climb a high tree and swinging into the spring from a rope over and over."
koleżanka infuses her musical scenery with pulled bass lines, dreamy psychedelic guitars, spiraling synths peaking in and out and a vocal aesthetic that feels at once utterly centered and self aware (sage like) but also possessed by past ghosts. I love when Moore floats, hits higher vocal registers so effortlessly.
"7th St/ 7th Ave" is from koleżanka's first album for Bar/None Records called "Place Is" due to drop on July 30th.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/kolezanka1
https://kolezanka.bandcamp.com/
Phoenix born and Brooklyn-based Kristina Moore, along with percussionist/multi-instrumentalist Ark Calkins, writes songs about the anti-place, a state of being understood by truckers, deckhands, flight attendants, and touring musicians. An in-between existence where home becomes blurry, and improvised routines provide temporary comfort. Her songs grapple with the anxieties we often push away, or have been trained to view as normal. Speaking to her exploration of the emotional and psychological connection to place, Moore says:
"This song lyrically encapsulates a lot of what the record was written about; being here while being there. I was feeling physically split between different homes. I had a home in Phoenix, a home in Brooklyn, and various homes I’d found while being on the road. As I spent time in one place, I felt the other grow farther. I have thought often about “place” vs “space” the past three years. What makes space a place. If a place is only physically spaced.
I used to have awful PTSD flashbacks and heavy dissociation, both of which would function differently, but would leave me feeling disoriented as if I had truly left my body and gone to another place and then come back and forget where I actually am. More recently, I’ve found myself caught in bouts of nostalgia, where I get caught in a memory and lose my footing in a physical space because the memory is so cinematic. Or I found myself returning home to Phoenix after moving and every part of the city felt filled entirely by events spanning years and it felt overwhelming.
The song moves in three parts between three separate homes I was feeling all at once: walking from 7th st to 7th ave in Phoenix while the sun was setting, leaving Darlings at 3am one night in Bushwick and feeling this urge to run back to my apartment as fast as I could, and being at Barton Springs in Austin Texas on a tour, after visiting Barton Springs several times on several tours over a few years, and watching some kids climb a high tree and swinging into the spring from a rope over and over."
koleżanka, Brooklyn based, Kristina Moore, singer songwriter, Art Calkins, percussionist / multi-instrumentalist, indie rock, shoegaze-esque, dream pop, "7th St/ 7th Ave"
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