Vocals & guitar: Selene Ross
Harmonies: Alisa Rose
Electric guitar, percussion, organ: Anthony Ferraro
Bass guitar: Josh Freund

Engineered, produced and mixed by Anthony Ferraro
Mastered by Bijan Sharifi

Cover image by Deidre Locklear

Holy Names

Ukulele & vocals: Selene Ross
Harp & Vocals: Alisa Rose
Violin: Ariel Wang
Synth: Anthony Ferraro

Recorded & produced by Anthony Ferraro
Mastered by Bijan Sharifi

Cover image by Josh Freund

~ yucca seeds & wind by the Joshua Tree desert ~

Cactus Song

Ukulele & vocals: Selene Ross
Harp & Vocals: Alisa Rose
Violin: Ariel Wang
Electric guitar & piano: Anthony Ferraro
Bass: Josh Freund

Recorded & produced by Anthony Ferraro
Mastered by Bijan Sharifi

Cover image by Deidre Locklear

~ ennui by the pandemic ~

Tuesday

And without my consent
Summer marches on
In the morning
I am mourning
The death of the dawn

chorus:
I've been spending all my days
Trying to get the sun to stay
And now,
I just surrender
And now, I just surrender

I’m a stranger in my body
I’m lost in my head
And I worry that I’m crazy
Afraid I’m sane instead

(chorus)

Earth might be quaking
But I don’t mind
Hands might be shaking
But I don't mind

(chorus)

And now, oh I surrender
surrender surrender oh-o-oh
surrender surrender surrender oh-o-oh

Oh I surrender
Oh I surrender
Oh I surrender
credits
released July 21, 2023
Engineered by Maryam Qudus at Tiny Telephone Recording
Mixed by Maryam Qudus at Brothers Chinese Recording and Best House
Produced by Anton Patzner
Mastered by Bijan Sharifi

Violin: Ariel Wang
Cello: Lewis Patzner
Viola: Matt Benedict-Montgomery
Violin: Shaina Evoniuk
String arrangement: Lewis Patzner
Harp & vocals: Alisa Rose
Dulcimer & vocals: Selene Ross
Music & lyrics: Selene Ross

Cover image by Diedre Locklear
Assisted by Chu Chun Tao
Props by Lauren Corden

Surrender

Fill her gossamer
With silver blossoms, her
Silken floss covers
It criss ‘n crossovers

Your spool of fiber
Is fuel for my fire
That you inspire
My spiraling spider

Between the trees
My majesty
Is wrapping me
In tapestry

So spin your wire
Your kindling fire
Within my lyre
My spiraling spider

I believe in her
My weaver
My dreamer
Receiver
I believe in her
My weaver
Receiver
Of dreams

Spin and spun
And when you’re done
Spin and spun
And when we’re one

I believe in her
My weaver
My dreamer
Receiver
I believe in her
My weaver
Receiver
credits
released July 28, 2023
Engineered by Maryam Qudus at Tiny Telephone Recording
Mixed by Maryam Qudus at Brothers Chinese Recording and Best House
Additional recording by Jonah Strauss at Survivor Sound
Mastered by Bijan Sharifi
Produced by Anton Patzner

Violin: Ariel Wang
Percussion & synth: Anton Patzner
Other percussion: Terrell Liedstrand
Harp & vocals: Alisa Rose
Vocals: Selene Ross
Music & lyrics: Alisa Rose

Cover image by Deidre Locklear (deidrelocklear.com)
Assisted by Chu Chun Tao
Props & hair by Lauren Corden

Spider

Inspired by Appalachian folk harmonies, 80's synth soundtracks, and ghosts, the music of Artemisia is spaciously eerie, like meeting a lover in a haunted house. 

Selene Ross (vocals, ukulele, guitar, autoharp, dulcimer) and Alisa Rose (vocals, harp)first met in the Berkeley Hills in 2018 when they lived together in a witch house. They both had grown up singing in choirs in the Bay Area and were each in music projects in college–Selene in the DIY freak-folk scene in Santa Barbara, and Alisa in the percussion group BEATs at Tufts University. 
Singing together in their living room evolved into performing at house shows, local venues, and eventually they recorded a collection of songs in the Joshua Tree desert in early 2021, made possible by the gentle heart of Anthony Ferraro. In the summer of 2021 Ariel Wang joined them on violin.

Their debut triptych is coming February 2022. Join the newsletter via artemisiasound.com to learn more.

Holy Names

Artemisia

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