Conversations With A Willow Tree

calm.

2022

A thematic concept album, Conversations with a Willow Tree is much more literal than you might think. 

“The album is an ode to a willow tree, which was the main collaborator on the album with AwareNess and I. I used to drive by this willow tree on my way to work, it lived at Bowles Grove Park,” says calm. about the project.

“I found comfort in this tree and had written the song conversations with a willow tree and after recording the song, the tree was cut down. I feel it was one of its last messages to share.”

Conversations with a Willow Tree dives into failed friendships, betrayal, climate catastrophe, capitalism, colonialism, the war machine, the violence and beauty of typewriters, medicine and plants, and dealing with death and features guest spots by Myka 9, Lee Reed, and Che Noir.