Nastavi, Calliope

by BABEHOVEN

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    releases July 9, 2021

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Bad Week 03:53
It’s hard to talk about it being a bad week When it’s been a bad week For a long time now And it doesn't seem to get better And if it’s so hard then why should I keep going It shouldn’t sound as sad as it does But it’s just sad to say It’s been a bad week for so many weeks now And I see the positives But it’s just so hard to ignore There’s so much trouble And there’s so much fire I’ve been weary And I’ve been trying To keep above water and Keep above lying down It takes a train sometimes to pull me out And I dont have the energy I don’t have the stamina To keep on fighting But I’ll keep on fighting I’ll do it. Even at the darkest times When I feel I’m cracking in two There’s never a day that goes by Where I don’t think of you Wonder how you’re doing Wonder where you sleep at night If I’ll ever see you again You were both a brother and a father to me You were my whole family It’s a struggle to keep it all together Pretend that I’m holding too Say that I’m here now and that it will be over soon If I’ve got to live like this Wonder what I’ll wake up to Wonder if I’ll wake up to You were both a father and a brother to me You were my whole family
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Crossword
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A Star 03:48
Do you think tomorrow You could take me out like I could be a star, Like I could be a star? Do you like the way I Catalyze how you feel In the morning I’ve been out I’ve been like Bobbi’s raining tears You think I’m gonna die like this You think I’m gonna keel As I age, I realize I have less patience for you Someone came into the shop yesterday Had a smile like yours and I wanted to cry And tell him to get the fuck out And tell me Why’d you go Is it worth all the trouble?
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Annie's Shoes
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Orange Tree
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Like Artists Making Offerings
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Alt. Lena

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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.

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releases 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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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. Balancing between the universality of emotion and the particulars that crack you open, Nastavi, Calliope lets us gaze into a fragment of it like a broken mirror. ... more

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