undrowning by Mimi Gilbert

I’d like to dedicate this collection of songs to the life force of Australia. Everything about you humbled me, taught me and allowed me to feel alive, small, wild and free. I wrote these songs while living there in our wagon, driving around the country while saying my quiet goodbyes. I moved back to my home country in a hurry to be closer to my grandpa Mickey in his final year of life. All of these songs are about this movement, this choosing, in one way or another. All of these songs were written on this precious land and mostly finished in Naarm.

Thank you to my friend and comrade in music Edvard Hakansson for carefully crafting these songs with me and putting so much heart, faith, time and skill into this project over the last few years. Jess Elwood - thank you for your powerful drumming and cheer. your performance on unload the gun makes me cry. Joey Clough thank you for your stunning work in making all the visual art for this album. Taylor Ranston - endless thank you’s to your support and letting me leave you at many-a-campsite in the northern territory while I drove the car away to try and write lyrics to this music.

Thank you to my family for always encouraging me to be confident in my kindness and urgent sense of adventure. Thank you most of all to you who listen to these songs and for letting them find a home within you. It’s a privilege of a lifetime to get to do this, challenging as it may be at times to trudge through the mud of industry. The clear water of Music and it’s path to you, dear listener, are worth the hike.

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