Name: What now by Wenzl McGowen
Duration: 7 min 31 s
Description: I recoded this with my brother Attila. I produced this in the redwoods while Trump became the president.

Sea Of Limbs

I recoded this with my brother Attila. I produced this in the redwoods while Trump became the president.

What now

This song is guiding me since I am a little child. I would always listen to Beirut dancing and celebrating the joy of life.
In november I spent a week in San Francisco and met this wonderful human and musician Nathaniel who was playing the violin for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, another band that I would listen to a lot in my teens. So here we are, presenting you the first musical manifestation of our encounter. Enjoy!

Violin, Mandoline, Guitar, Percussion: Nathaniel Markman
Voice, Accordeon, Production, Mix and Photo: Elena Shirin

Original song written by Beirut

Elefant Gun feat. Nathaniel Markman

About 3 years ago there were times when I felt like I lived in trains more than I lived in my apartment. After one of the 1001 nightly train rides from my university in Linz back to Vienna my mum and I went to a concert of Hindi Zahra.
I was exhausted, my heart was broken, overcome by confusion and I wasn’t in the mood at all to be in a room with a lot of people.
But Hindi Zahra has been a guardian and light in my life since 10 years so I just surrendered to everything and opened up for her to come into my heart. There she was with a
“...
Red Dress
Gold rings
Long black hair
Caught by the winds of movement
and the fire that you are
is a blessing under stars
...”
With her performance she has not only lit my inner fire again but also embodied this weightless simplicity of joy that made me feel at home in my body again.

From A to Be

Red Dress

‘Implode'xplode' ist a homage to the threshold between the inner and the outer world. It is about the daily dance with the inputs and outputs of information. The awareness when it’s time to hold space for yourself to prevent implosions or when to celebrate and embody the explosions fully.
With this song, Elena reminds oneself of the capacity of our own body and the recognition of its warning signals, that show up when its too much.
In the society we are living in, quantity and speed took over and overstimulation turned into a norm.
“Through my tendency of overdoing it with work and tight schedules, that song kind of came out naturally, when I needed it the most.
'Implode'xplode' is not only a timeless reminder to care and listen to my body more but it also encourages me to fully embrace the explosions when they come in
and channel it into music, dance or any other type of creation with full power."

What now

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