MUSIC

Nessa Grasing wrote Forest Fires in the summer of 2020, in the high desert of Eastern Washington, while the pandemic and nearby wildfires raged. She suffered a partial severing of her pinky finger at the hands of a folding chair. Nessa wrote this song with her remaining functional fingers, in the hope that from dry bones in the desert, life could spring forth again.

Performed backup vocals on Bartees Strange’s Daily News. Released March 27th, 2023.

Cocoon, a collaboration between Nessa Grasing and Kirk Pearson, is about what keeps moving when one stands still. Pearson’s electro-folk arrangements, drawing on musicians from around the globe, resemble the undergrowth that thrums with life if only you press your ear to the ground. Released March, 16th 2021.