Anna Tivel brings a quiet intensity on her new single ‘White Goose’. An elegiac reflection on regret and longing, this is the first single from her new album “Animal Poem”, due 29th August on Fluff & Gravy Records. The video was shot on 16mm by short film director Ryland Bouchard and starring Anastasiia Duvallié and features breathtaking natural scenes that match the pastoral sounds of the song.
Of the album, Tivel writes, “It’s hard to know how to hold a creative life in a time that feels fraught with venomous division, careening technological advance, and an ever-widening chasm between the affluent and the dispossessed. What good are poems when affordable housing is scarce, the climate teeters on a dangerous edge, and war breaks out over misinformation spread by profit-hungry algorithms? I think about being here. How brief it is. How incomplete our understanding. I think about history. All the worlds we’ve created and broken. Revolution and renaissance. Hope and humility. Everyone here is living a creative life – teachers and parents, kids and convenience store clerks. We’re all tasting this wild existence, finding ways to express how much it hurts and moves us. This work is my own small addition to that communal story. The water we swim in. The way our attention molds our truths. Humanity is unfolding as we describe it. We’ll never get it right, but the attempt is everything.”
