Tess Posner wrote “New Angels” as a response to her witnessing a man being killed but not covered by the local news. But the song is also inspired by what seems to be a never ending series of catastrophic events in the world of late including the 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California that devastated huge swaths of the forest and sent smoke into the air affecting the environment and living creates far beyond the borders of the state. Posner’s dynamic vocals range from the close and personal to the soaring and in her words we hear the ways in which despair can be instilled in us but also how we can resist giving in to that psychological paralysis that makes even worse consequences inevitable. Posner offers no shallow and pat answers or the insipid hopes and prayers pabulum. She evokes her own reaction to events and how she tries to transform despair into hope and action in spite of the pain and struggle hinting that maybe we all need to be the world’s new angels in the ways that we can in order to turn things around. Listen to “New Angels” on Soundcloud and follow Posner at the links provided.
sonicbids.com/band/tessposner
soundcloud.com/tessposnermusic
open.spotify.com/artist/6E0ipJwSn72SyGZUHAp2ht
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