Nastavi, Calliope by Babehoven

Is there a container big enough to hold grief, in all its vastness? Maya Bon, the artist behind Babehoven, built the Nastavi, Calliope EP after a cascade of losses, a vessel into which she poured two years of heartache, humor, and rage, then the growth that bookended these cataclysms. Evocative of Arthur Russell’s Love is Overtaking Me or Julia Jacklin’s Crushing, it balances meticulously between the universality of emotion and the particulars that crack you open—barefoot eating Thai food alone in a morning kitchen, or the memory of Calliope, a beloved family dog and the EP’s namesake. There is no containing grief, but Nastavi, Calliope lets us gaze into a fragment of it like a broken mirror—a sharp, incisive revelation.

Tracklist

1.	Bad Week	3:53

2.	Crossword	3:04

3.	A Star	3:48

4.	Annie's Shoes	2:03

5.	Orange Tree	3:26

6.	Like Artists Making Offerings	2:28

7.	Alt. Lena	4:46

Credits

released July 9, 2021

Lyrics and song by Maya Bon. Co-produced with Ryan Albert. Recorded and Mixed by Ryan Albert. Mastered by Greg Obis of Chicago Mastering Service. Album art by Saskia and Hannah Krut-Powell.

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