Ripe with rot – meka’s new song from the Graveyard of Dreams

US nostalgia folk artist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter meka (Melissa Lingo) teases the release of May’s album ‘The Rabbit’ with today’s new single, ‘Tomato Song’ (Dumont Dumont).

Piano led, gently brushed drums and an intricate Nick Draker-style guitar sound, combine beautifully to showcase meka’s lush, layered songwriting craft, the song merging quaint imagery of sitting with her mother in the garden, with a melancholy, existential underbelly.

 “Some things are so unbearably sad or unbearably beautiful that it’s hard for me to tell a dream from life from nightmare,” she said. “My mom does sleep in the garden every summer, protecting her peas and strawberries from deer and rabbits, and you can usually find me perched somewhere with a cigarette, bargaining with death. ‘Tomato Song’ is ripe with rot, an ode to the in between, to the Graveyard of Dreams, which also happens to be the Fertile Compost for Hope.”

Lingo has led an unconventional, nomadic life. Raised in an isolated Californian mountain town dedicated to astronomical research, slivers of her life were later spent in Brazil, India, Cambodia and Budapest before she eventually settled in Prague where she lives high in the mountains.

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