these fine songs

Lotte Kestner - Crush the Bird

Charlotte Kestner was certain a type of woman, the kind of woman that finds herself living as a character in a novel by Goethe, the kind of woman who makes narrators rejoice and despair, love and live, and end their stories with tragedies.

Lotte Kestner - Fineline

Lotte Kestner might be the same, depending on the kind of day on which her music finds you. Not every day is a good day to confront those ghosts of our own heads, the long-dressed heroines of a long-dead Weimar. The songs reach out - threads waiting for the pin, bare, with voices clinging to softly-played guitars like night swimmers, treading water amid the cold broken reflections of the moon. They beckon to you, but you can't go in alone.
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