A wish to be writing pop songs for Hanif Abdurraqib

by Ignatz Höch & Hannah Mouse

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The text in this song is a stream of consciousness story about some birds. Perhaps these birds helped me think about what happens after disaster has struck, what is a recovery and how to underhandedly navigate systems of power to get what you need, locate a fresh sense of liberty and with it a new precarity. In that sense I guess this is a song about trans healthcare.

In case you don't know, Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet who keeps making me cry. This is the first poem of his that I heard:
soundcloud.com/poets-org/hanif-abdurraqib-how-can-black-people-write-about-flowers-at-a-time-like-this
This is the piece I heard most recently:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VJJJOdOfEE

The instrumental was originally made with/for Eclat Crew, an electronic music collective for women, trans and nonbinary people. www.eclatcrew.com

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A wish to be writing pop songs for Hanif Abdurraqib

There are wings
spread all over the pavement
tiny bones stripped of their feathers
lonely birds wobble around on their awkward little legs
now that they can't fly they have taught themselves to read
evening classes
english literature
sneaking out of lectures to smoke unfiltered cigarettes
but staying up late into the night to talk about central american surrealism
and what it means for the united states
and the historicisation of teen vogue

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released March 5, 2021
With additional mixing/mastering/good stuff by the wonderful Elie Gregory
stripdown.bandcamp.com

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Ignatz Höch & Hannah Mouse Berlin, Germany

Ignatz Höch & Hannah Mouse is the musical project of multi-functional artist Judy Moore. She is a twitching mass of asymmetrical insects and spray glue in the shape of a woman. She smells of White Diamonds by Elizabeth Taylor.

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