Ollella – “Mothers & Colors”
Americana Highways presents this premiere of Ollella’s song “Mothers & Colors” from her forthcoming album Antifragile, which is set for release on March 21. The album was produced, engineered and mixed by Jordan Cunningham, and mastered by Adam Gonsalves. This song “Mothers & Colors” is available today.
“Mothers & Colors” is Ellie Barber on cello and vocals; Jordan Cunningham on electric guitar; Nate Sharp on bass; Sean Lane (Heart) on drums; and Carrie Jennings on Flugelhorn.
Ellie tells us: “I have watched many people around me become mothers recently. Friends, friend’s friends, my very own sister. It’s a beautiful, inspiring thing. I say that because for my whole life I have simultaneously wanted to be a mother, and yet almost fearfully equated motherhood with death. Meaning as when one becomes a mother, and then you, and everything you’ve ever known, ceases to exist. Goodbye time, goodbye body, goodbye self, goodbye Earth, goodbye universe.”
“Mothers & Colors” was born as Ellie Barber ruminated on how mothers juggle life’s obligations, and the complex and unique nature of their challenges and strengths. Imagining and visualizing colors that symbolize the feelings that occur. Mothers can be joyful and full of love–yellows. Mothers can be deeply sad–blues, purples. Mother can be considered “crazy”– reds, oranges. Sometimes these colors come from a chemical place due to their increased flow of hormones. Sometimes they come from a situational reality: mothers are balancing their children, their bodies, their careers, their families.
It is dizzying, and vast: “All the colors woven into mothers while they’re busy painting colors woven into mothers while they’re painting colors.” The circular nature of these chorus lyrics speak to the intergenerational nature of mothers. How mothers pass things down to their daughters, who may become mothers, and how they seem utterly connected. Ollella’s vocals sound dreamy and captivating, somehow weaving in tapestries of sound as if her voice embodies the very layers she’s singing about.
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