Melissa Lingo

Songstress, poet, and self-taught multi-instrumentalist, Melissa Lingo is a musical storyteller. Her lyrics are intimately reflective; braiding the poetic wisdom of Mother Nature with her experiences in finding the tenderness in pain and the sacred in the seemingly mundane.

As a woman of the woods, Melissa and her producer, 2-time Grammy nominee Carmen Rizzo, thought it would be special to record the skeleton of this record outdoors among birdsong and wind—a way to literally involve the elements that inspire much of Melissa’s music. They lugged their gear to a quiet meadow on stolen Nisenan land near the Yuba River, and captured exactly what they sought to in one day before returning to Los Angeles, stolen Tongva land, to overdub and mix the album.

The Sabian Symbol, “A Young Girl Feeding Birds in Winter” represents the willingness and devotion to nourish one another other and our dreams even in the face of scarcity and the dark unknown. This record is a collection of songs written in the midst of loss, tragedy, hope and perseverance.