Jennie Abrahamson - Gemini Gemini (2014)

The opening track on the new album is “SNOWSTORM”. It was written after a weird, dramatic, dream I had one night. I dreamt that this world had come to an end, and that we were all going down – not through heat or bombs – but through a storm that would cover the whole world under a silencing blanket of snow. A new ice age, perhaps. We all knew we had it coming, after mistreating the planet we’d been given for years and years, and still – the feeling that arises when you know ‘this is it’, is… hard to define. I wanted to capture the feeling I had when I awoke that morning, and “Snowstorm” more or less wrote itself in less than an hour.

What ended up on the album is the same arrangement as on my first demo of it. Voice, a kalimba (thumb piano), a wooden block for the 2 & 4 and some different china cymbals – that’s it. I wanted to keep it simple and keep the arrangement centered around my voice.