Bordering on too beautiful, Julie Byrne’s The Greater Wings, released on Ghostly International last month, is instead perfectly balanced on the edge.
During the making of The Greater Wings, Byrne’s longtime collaborator Eric Littmann passed, unexpectedly, at age 31.
“My hope for The Greater Wings is that it lives as a love letter to my chosen family and as an expression of the depth of my commitment to our shared future. Being reshaped by grief also has me more aware of what death does not take from me. I commit that to heart, to words, to sound. Music is not bound to any kind of linear time, so in the capacity to record and speak to the future: this is what it felt like to me, when we were simultaneous, alive, occurring all at once. What it has felt like to go up against my edge and push, the love that has made it worth all this fight. These memories are my values, they belong with me.”
We can thank Julie Byrne for sharing this love letter with the rest of us.
