The first three tracks are from my soon to be released EP, Only A Setting Sun — a duo project with Danish guitarist Morten Duun. Recorded in 2023 in the small country town of Mollongghip, Victoria, this EP has been in the works a very long time. We are seeking support to bring this record into the world.
Written & arranged by Mim Crellin and Morten Duun
The remaining tracks on the folio playlist are selected from my debut album, All Our Little Boxes. To hear the complete album, visit my bandcamp page.
I wrote the bulk of this album at the tail end of my year of breast cancer treatment. It is an autobiographical song cycle chronicling my experience from a Covid time love story, to discovering the cancer, to various aspects of treatment, and the reckoning with my experience as I come out the other side.
In the track Prelude, the only instrumental on the album, I used the melody played by the chemotherapy pumps as the basis for the composition. The following title track, Little Boxes, is about friends and family getting me through chemo sessions by playing games on Zoom.
This is a rotoscope animation that I did in 2022. The dancer is writer David Rakoff, in possibly his last public appearance before his death in 2012. I have juxtaposed the animation with a piece from my song cycle. This was the catalyst for my upcoming interdisciplinary project, I'm People.
A live video from Wizard Tone Studios. Elegy (For James) is a song about making sense of the randomness.
A live performance at the launch concert of All Our Little Boxes, Nexus Arts Centre and streamed by Australian Digital Concert Hall, November 2023.
The final song of the cycle, Ascending Again, speaks of learning to use your body again and look towards an uncertain future.