Hannah Peel - Invisible City (Official Audio)

Taken from Hannah Peel's new album AWAKE BUT ALWAYS DREAMING Out now Vinyl / CD / Download / Streaming http://awal.lnk.to/8gcJA https://hannahpeel.tmstor.es Peel has said on 'The Line Of Best Fit' music blog: "...In between the release of my first album in 2011 I did a number of EPs, but I spent hours writing a song for each of the 55 prose poems in Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities. It became a bit of an unhealthy obsession, and one I had no idea why - until the song "Conversations" was written. I suppose looking back now, I was in denial to what was happening to my grandmother with her dementia and seeking ways to understand where she had gone. The pure escapism in Calvino’s tales of unknown dreamworlds gave me comfort, and I thought deeply of her own imagination. I loved thinking deeply about the maps of her mind, what each segment of her memories was. The imagery of certain shops or street corners she could stroll through and the everyday travel like us. She was inside her own world remembering the routes to work, the journeys, and daily routine patterns. It felt healthy and made me research deeper and further. Memory keeps us safe, it gives us an idea of self and knowing our way about. It is essential for daily life. Memory in this song, it is the arms of someone you love holding you close, like the walls of the city we all build around us. How terrifying and tragic it must be to realize it is leaving you after years of building a perceived, secure life. "I built this city around my body, these walls they hold me like you once did, like you once did." Find out about live date and release here: https://hannahpeel.com