I've posted about every song in the upcoming "Letters from Gilead" album, except for this one. I'm not sure why it took me so long. I wrote this song and uploaded the rough take to SoundCloud over a year ago…
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Nov 11 2020
Kirsten "Haze" Hazler
With a voice sometimes silken and sometimes sassy, Haze sings stories of good intentions, messy entanglements, and ditched resolutions… of guilt and forgiveness… of sweet-talking boys and tortured, troubled men… of beautiful broken women and the girls they used to be.
She is inspired by songwriters like Patty Griffin, Kathleen Edwards, and Joni Mitchell, interspersing their music with her own original compositions. Based in Richmond, Virginia, Haze performs most frequently as half of the duo known as "Haze & Dacey".
Haze has written a series of songs based on "The Handmaids Tale", both the original novel by Margaret Atwood and the Hulu television series of the same name. These songs will be compiled in an album titled "Letters from Gilead", intended for release sometime in 2021.
Songwriting Scrapbook
May 17 2020
Letters from Gilead - title track
Finally. Finally! I finished the 10th song, the last song, the title track for the upcoming album, "Letters from Gilead." In the Hulu adaptation of "The Handmaid's Tale", the Mayday resistance movement collected letters from women suffering under Gilead's oppressive…
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Jan 26 2020
Under His Eye
This is a song that was a very long time, and a very short time in the making. For the longest time - maybe a year? - the only lyrics were the line "I'm laying low, I'm laying low, I'm laying oh so low."
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Jan 24 2020
Sliver of Joy
"...I would go along the hall and down the Marthas' stairs at the back and through the kitchen... I would hurry across the few feet of illuminated lawn...
I want to see what can be seen, of him, take him…
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Jan 17 2020
Jezebel's
"'That one there, the one in green, she's a sociologist. Or was. That one was a lawyer, that one was in business, an executive position; some sort of fast-food chain or maybe it was hotels. I'm told you can have quite a good conversation with her if all you feel like is talking. They prefer it here, too.'
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Jan 13 2020
Closet Scrawl (Nolite te bastardes carborundorum)
"Here I am in the closet. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. I can't see it in the dark but I trace the tiny scratched writing with the ends of my fingers, as if it's a code in Braille. It…
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Jan 12 2020
Feels So Good to Fly
I thought I might post my songs in the "Letters from Gilead" series in the order they were written, but I'm scrapping that idea right now. Tonight, I feel like sharing my newest song, "Feels So Good to…
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Jan 11 2020
Letters from Gilead - How it all started
It was a little under a year ago that I decided I was going to compose an entire album based on "The Handmaid's Tale."
I had binge-watched seasons 1 and 2 of the Hulu series, and reread the book…
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Jan 9 2020
Blue
In the middle of last January, Dacey and I took advantage of a long weekend to escape to Douthat State Park.
I had recently finished writing "My Name is June", and was feeling the momentum of a new…
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Jan 8 2020
My Name is June
It took me awhile to get around to watching the MGM/Hulu adaptation of "The Handmaid's Tale". I had read the book by Margaret Atwood many years ago, and it had a powerful impact on me. I didn't want to watch…
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Jan 7 2020
The Muse is something strange
I already have a travelogue - the irregularly maintained journal of Haze & Dacey’s travels, shows, and other adventures. But now I’m starting something more personal: a journal of my songwriting. I really wish I’d started this decades ago. But…
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