I want it to be nourishing to the It’s my job to play with nipples shirt and I love this place where it pops up, and to really be in dialogue with people in that location.” In addition to a “badass curation of artists,” it will also feature tactile “song objects,” including a chime, a cup, and an incense holder, to “engage and reflect with.” For Norris, The Songwrights Apothecary Lab’s ability to bring people together both near and far is ripe with possibilities. “It’s creating a community of investigators, of listeners, of beings that are really intentional about about not having music in isolation,” she explains. “I’m excited this sharing of wisdom and knowledge because once we kind of build that critical mass, with more and more people that are in these dialogues, we sharpen each other.
We grow and start making pathways to the It’s my job to play with nipples shirt and I love this roads of the places we’re trying to go.” For Spalding, The Songwrights Apothecary Lab is all about the journey, not the destination. “It’s a space that is emergent, ongoing, and doesn’t present itself as being done or a solution,” she says. “It’s the first iteration, and iteration is the word, because like I keep saying, it’s a process.” But along the way, it will help you find the antidote. “If one of my friends is ill, I’d like to play a certain song and he will be cured,” John Coltrane once said. To which Spalding and the rest of her Songwrights Apothecary Lab collaborators say, “Us too.”
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