Many singers profess to be natural storytellers, but few can also claim to be published,authors.

Australian jazz singer Connie Lansberg showcases these two areas of her creative output this November, with the release of the album Deep Dark Down & Blue, alongside a novel of the same name. 

The record is an infectious and lilting collection of songs, performed by some of Melbourne’s leading musicians. 

A fixture on the Australian jazz scene, Connie’s songs - at various points evoking Blossom Dearie, Joni Mitchell, and Carol King - brim with elegantly expressive melodies, and poetic lyrics.

“As an author, I love the long-form, but as a songwriter there’s nothing more thrilling than summing up the difficult, the wonderful, the terrifying and exhilarating feeling of falling in or out of love in a 4-minute soliloquy accompanied by these talented musicians.”

Deep Dark Down & Blue gracefully walks that fine line between accessibility and sophistication, jazz and pop, resulting in an album that mixes crystalline melodies with richly emotive sentiments.

4. Still

Thoughts of Fall

Demo: Recorded in the black cabin in the woods. 

This Broken Machine
lyrics + music by Tracy Aubert

What if what I want
Crushes like a hurricane?
When all I ever want 
Is to do no harm

You are just a man
Of simple needs
Touch and autonomy
But I see you breaching

If I'm not what you wanted
If I'm not what you need
If I'm not what you wanted
If I'm not what you need
I'm a broken machine
I'm a letter you don't want to read

I'm destined now, destined now to be alone

Say goodbye to my summers
Say goodbye to my soft landings
I'm on the verge of losing lucid powers
To wandering hours that shatter us
Into ten thousand things
These heavenly postures reach higher ground
Higher ground, and then shatter us down to our knees
Earthly bodies, taking us down down
Taking us down, down, down, down down...


This Broken Machine- DEMO

WE WANT CONNECTION coming fall 2025

Witch Cabin is the solo project of Brooklyn-born and San Francisco-raised artist Tracy Marcellino, a multidisciplinary creative whose music blends raw vocals, synth-driven arrangements, and brutally honest poetic lyricism. Named after the black cabin in the woods where she writes most of her material, Witch Cabin is both a physical space and a psychological one—introspective, charged, and emotionally off-center.

Raised on Thriller, Purple Rain, and vintage reggae, Tracy was a latchkey kid with a yellow Walkman and a rich interior landscape. She cut her teeth singing in underground cyphers, fronted bands for years, and eventually found her voice solo. Witch Cabin is where that voice lives now.

Her upcoming EP, We Want Connection, explores longing, avoidance, and the chaos of modern intimacy. It's a body of work that confronts the way we chase closeness while sabotaging it in real time. Anchored by minimal production and highly personal yet universal lyrics, the EP refuses traditional structure in favor of tension, repetition, and unraveling in the most gratifying ways. 



Photos by Michael Feerick.

This Broken Machine- DEMO

Witch Cabin

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