For the past year I have been working on a solo project - nurturing, feeding, catalysing, surgicaly stitching lab-style, cutting and pasting, spontaneously birthing a series of songs. Some of these songs have waited in their preserving jars for years: whole creatures waiting to be animated. Others were just sketches, strong motifs and vocal lines needing to be fleshed out. Still others arrived in a burst - whole and fierce and alive. For the past two months I've been working