Camille
On the new record this song appears twice ... Once at track seven, once at track twenty-one, the same title both times, on an album that runs backward — Adolescence first, then Childhood, and at the very end a single track called Birth ... So the Earth is sung once by the older child and once by the younger one, and then the record arrives where all of us started ...
The Sound of Milk is Camille's album about being a mother and having been a child, in three parts, made with an odd and beautiful little band ... a harp, a cello, and her bassist of many years ... Not a rock band ... Not an orchestra ... Three instruments that can all be plucked ... for hearts ...
She has always used her voice as an instrument and her body as a drum — one of her records, Le Fil, is strung on a single held note that never stops from the first song to the last ... Here the held thing is a planet ... A reviewer said the song reminds us who we are and where we come from ... She herself said, this September, that music is a ritual that moves us forward ... Put the two together and that is the song ... the ground under a child, sung to twice, so it stays there ... grounded ...