Dream Songs: “The Instrument You Are”
With my ‘feet in the sand, head in the clouds’ I would sit on the wild and beautiful Sonoma Coast beaches every weekend, by myself, for years. Hundreds of times I felt my body was a hollow tube, like a flute, ‘for the sea breeze to blow through’ and clear my mind and heal my heart. The song is called “The Instrument You Are.”
Dream Songs: “Casting”
I played this melody over and over, hundreds of times…I was entranced by it! I would play it again and wonder: Where did this come from? Is there a story in this melody? What is it about? Each night before sleep I would ask for the lyrics to come to me in my dreams. And sure enough, one night I had this dream…
Bio / About the album, Twist Run Road
A pearl is born out of a grain of sand through a process that transforms stubborn pain into lustrous gems. Singer, songwriter and guitarist Elaine Lucia knows all about this strange alchemy, creating a body of arrestingly beautiful music out of a fraught childhood’s persistent ghosts.