From Tanya's Bandcamp: "There are many streets in Mexico named for Miguel Hidalgo ~ this one is on Isla Mujeres, Yucatan, where I wrote the words for this. I’d just spent the night talking with a woman who told me story after story of local lore and history, all of them intense and centered around women: the devoted and difficult pilgrimages of Maya women to the island sanctuary of the goddess Ixchel; the fishwives and pirate mistresses who governed while their partners were at sea; a very terrible pirate humbled and driven crazy by unrequited love for a local girl called The Brunette; sightings of the Virgin walking on the water. Walking back to my room later, I thought of these stories as little globs of song buried in the sand and floating in the bay, and of generations of girls finding them, and leaving their own."
From Tanya's Bandcamp: "There are many streets in Mexico named for Miguel Hidalgo ~ this one is on Isla Mujeres, Yucatan, where I wrote the words for this. I’d just spent the night talking with a woman who told me story after story of local lore and history, all of them intense and centered around women: the devoted and difficult pilgrimages of Maya women to the island sanctuary of the goddess Ixchel; the fishwives and pirate mistresses who governed while their partners were at sea; a very terrible pirate humbled and driven crazy by unrequited love for a local girl called The Brunette; sightings of the Virgin walking on the water. Walking back to my room later, I thought of these stories as little globs of song buried in the sand and floating in the bay, and of generations of girls finding them, and leaving their own."