SONGS OF SINS AND SCARS
DUO SESSIONS IN UNSAFE SPACES
An intimate musical conversation about our most shameful sins and the scars they have given us
For art to be able to mirror the whole human being it also needs to talk about the difficult and uncomfortable. Both the artist and the audience therefore sometimes need to expose themselves to so-called "unsafe spaces". This is the core of Anna Arco's music, and her two previous albums have dealt with how to portray the entire human emotional spectrum. Songs of Sins and Scars is the last part of Arco's Songs-trilogy and it is about our deepest secrets: our sins, the scars they have given us and how we can, or cannot, live with them.
Through varied duo constellations, our sins and secrets are explored through Anna Arco's compositions. It is big feelings in big soundscapes with small means on a small setting when the feelings, stories and songs are examined, completely destroyed and rebuilt in an intimate musical conversation in front of a live-audience.
Anna Arco - vocals, synthesizers
Stina Hellberg Agback - harp
Simon Löfstedt - guitars
Björn Eriksson - synthesizers
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This is an unsafe space
I want you to reach deep down inside of you
For that little sharp dark object
That occupies your mind
When you wake up at night and cannot fall back to sleep
Your darkest secret
Your deepest regret
Your foulest sin
Pick it up
And write it down on paper
And put it in this little box of secrets
And when you drop it
Let your shame accompany it down to the bottom
I believe that when we share our burdens
They get easier to carry
So please share your secret with me
I will read it, cherish it
And make art out of it
I feel it is my responsibility as an artist
To explore that what doesn't want to be explored
And enter unsafe spaces