I am a tree, I am a mouth is available now on all digital platforms and streaming services.

The album’s vocal duets draw their lyrics from Rainer Maria Rilke’s stunning and timeless Book of Hours, a work of ardent odes to the ineffable, first published in 1905. The songs’ palette consists of two vocal lines and a rich array of drones constructed from gong resonances, electronically stretched, slowed, and sculpted into an ever-active texture gently turning beneath the interwoven voices.

Composed and sung by Jane, the art songs of I am a tree, I am a mouth owe their language as much to Maryanne Amacher and drone music as to lieder and Hildegard von Bingen.

Recorded at The Uffizi, July-August, 2022

Mixed/Mastered by Bob Scott at Dodgy Sound, August-October, 2022

Cover art by Jane Sheldon, May 2022