#9/10 singles out today! 'Bring This to Bill'

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.

Cover image by Cecilie Anna’s favourite photographer, Paal Audestad, taken on their trip to Manchester in 2019.

Music, words and soundscape: Cecilie Anna
Bass accordion: Gisle Østrem
Recording, Mixing and Co-Producer: SirSound, Stord
Mastered by Alex Wharton in Abbey Road, London
Cecilie Anna Records 2023