NEW ZEALAND SURVIVAL SONGS, a new EP, tour & "Little Island" is out to the public today. (Patreon)

Hallo loves.

You may also get the mailer from me - it's BIG NEWS DAY.:

New song drop to the public, new EP news, tour news.

I'm dropping "Little Island", which was previously only available in a buried link to patrons, to the public today, along with an EP and tour announce.

THE PUBLIC LINK TO THE SONG IS HERE, just...share it.

https://apalmer.lnk.to/LittleIsland

AAAAND.....I just posted this (below...more or less) to socials, and if you wanna go share those posts, I'd love it. Love it. Love it.

Here's the Facebook post, and here's the Instagram. Please hare the posts, share the story, share the song.

Or just forward this email/post to whoever. It helps the patreon grow.

........

Listen.

Some songwriters thrived during the pandemic. I did not.

While I was living accidentally in New Zealand, navigating a collapsed marriage, solo motherhood, a foreign country, and a world on fire, I got a lot of ideas for songs. But I barely wrote them down. I couldn’t. I had to put the kiddo first, most days.

BUT.

In the two and half years I was waylaid over there, wondering daily when I would return home, I did manage to write four (well, kinda five) songs. 

They weren’t written to be pretty or commercially successful. They were actual “records” of confusion, anger, trauma, gratitude, and reckoning, and they were pure catharsis in the hardest moment of my life.

I’ve decided to collect them into one EP called “New Zealand Survival Songs”, and I’m dropping the lead single today. 

It’s a duet with Julia Deans (indie royalty from New Zealand, from the band Fur Patrol) and it’s my complicated love letter to a complicated country (New Zealand) with a complicated relationship to my complicated country (The USA). 

Some footnotes for listening: it helps to know that 

1) The Mongrel Mob is a gang in New Zealand (sorta like their Latin Kings), and 

2) Kiwis really do take issue with being called a “Little Island”, especially in reference to how they kept Covid away. The country is bigger than the U.K.

Soon, I’m going to drop a beautiful video for “Little Island” (filmed on Waiheke Island with Julia Deans in the Stony Batter World War II Tunnels).

I’m going on a short tour to promote this baby.

This one’s not a Dresden Dolls effort, it’s just me, a microphone, my piano and a ukulele.

JANUARY
Sun 21st: Sherwood, Queenstown NZ
Wed 24th: Q Theatre, Auckland NZ
Sat 27th: Old St Pauls, Wellington NZ

FEBRUARY
Thurs 1st: City Recital Hall, Sydney NSW
Sat 3rd: Hamer Hall, Melbourne VIC

THE NITTY GRITTY TICKET INFO.....

Patron-only pre-sale runs Nov 20, 21, 22. Starting at 10am NZ, 8am AEDT.
Exclusively for Patrons only on Nov 20th (venue/presenter presales Nov 21 & 22).

Public on-sale begins Thursday November 23rd at 8am AEST/ 10am NZ time.

The album (which will be a digital EP) drops to patrons first, then to the public on Jan 11th.
We’ll also be releasing a limited Vinyl 12” - that pre-sale will start Dec 7th.

I love you all.

I needed this.

Lots more about this, soon.

XXX

AFP

P.S. "Little Island" single artwork photo by Neil Gaiman. Design by Andrew Nelson @ Down in the Valley Design.

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