Question: How did witnessing your mother’s experience help you understand the ways we all meet pain and healing? Angelika: When I created this song, my mom was not well. She was not sleeping. Her nervous system was very low. She was touching deep and ancient fears inside of her with her health condition.I was far away.  I was in France, and she was in Colorado. I couldn't fly immediately to her.  I wondered how I could best support her apart from calling her and showing her t

After the loneliness and isolation of months in the pandemic, many of us began trying to find ways to connect safely with each other from our homes. For musicians accustomed to life on the road, meeting new people, and sharing music, the change of lifestyle was big. Creativity needs to be fed and that spark is often lit by playing with other musicians and feeling the communication between voices and instruments. Ajeet spent the first winter of the pandemic in the snow covered

She, the new single by Mirabai Ceiba, was written by Angelika Baumbach during a solitary mini-retreat, as a way to create a space to experience herself freely. We had the opportunity to talk with her about womanhood, and life as an artist and mother.