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THINGS I’M LOVING

You asked me to do more of these, and I listened!

MUSIC

Many of you are ridiculously talented, and nothing makes me happier than when you share your work with me. One of my subscribers, Binnie Klein, is multi-talented and looks fabulous in her many hats.

When she sent me her album months before it came out, I listened to it immediately and could not stop.

In These Trees and Tartie is a collaboration between two women over three decades and 10,415 miles apart.

They came together when younger Australian singer/songwriter Tartie sent some of her tracks to writer and U.S. alternative radio show producer Binnie Klein. 

Tartie’s song, "Winter's Girl," so captivated Binnie that she sent Tartie a poem she had just written in a wild leap of faith.

Could it become a song?

“I’ll give it a go” was Tartie’s response, and she began what was to become a multi-year remote collaboration (they have yet to meet in person).

The results of that first effort were magical, and "Orchard" (link to official video, with over 400k views) was released as their first single.

More songs followed, with lyrics, melodies and demos sent back and forth via emails and Zoom.

The 10-song album “The Quiver” is the result.

If that wasn’t enough, they made a beautiful Flipbook for the album!

Ralph Beaubrun is a French musician, dancer and choreographer. This song came to my attention when I saw a dance I wanted to learn (see below). When I went to find it, I discovered that the song was the dance teacher’s and he’d choreographed the dance for his classes in France!

The song is called La Madame.

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