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Janice: Gina, I'm listening to your new album, Wheels in an Elsewhere. Your winsome vocals and seamless marriage of lyric and music allow one to enter a spaciousness...where are you taking us? Gina:  Interesting that you mentioned spaciousness, as the album is largely about the spaciousness of being apart from worldly life, troubles, insanities and the treadmill… in the sense of being something more like pure spirit. Not trying to paint our lives as a bleak picture but it can certainly seem like that at times for many of us, I believe. And we’ve all at times thought “stop the planet I want to get off”! Now the phrase wheels in an elsewhere is taken from the fourth song on the album which was inspired by my randomly pondering what death might be like. In the song the elsewhere is the world you leave behind. And the wheels of course are just the material matters of life including cars, work business. problems and the ongoing nature of it all. It is quite a philosophical a...

Janice: Gina, I'm listening to your work as I write. Tell me about your inspiration for your songwriting? Gina: Hmmmm, inspiration can be a tricky thing to pin down, as often it is just a subtle, wispy thought or different perspective on something. And the something might be anything, even including the mundanities of life. But then having noticed this perspective it is then a matter of letting that become a truth for me and then the song lyrics are a way of illustrating and expressing that perspective in a (hopefully)vibrant and aesthetic way. Sometimes a song is built around a single line that comes to me when I hear Mark's music.  The way Mark and I write, is that he sends me a fairly complete song for which I supply the lyrics and vocals. Sometimes on listening to the track, a line of words will suggest itself and then I create a scenario around that line.  For example, on one of our latest batch, as I was listening to the track over and over, the words, ...