This world is crazy, crazy. Fast paced social media, all in your eyes, constantly telling you that you must do this, make this, for these rubbish, uncaring algorithms.
Then along comes a song with this sound of love and peace. And it just says stop, rest, and just be you. It’s ok.
Look out into the horizon. See the trees being trees. And a joy tear rolls down your cheek.
This is that song. A song that transports you away, gives you love in your soul, and is so calming.
Here at HEY GIRL Radio, we love it. It gave us moments of joy and peace. And this is the pure power of creativity, eh.
“Ditt Hjärta” comes from Djuphjärtad, the new collaborative EP from Swedish singer Emma Lucia and ambient project Ship Says Om, the work of Jenny Gillespie Mason. The two artists met through the Berkeley, California music community and became friends before they ever made music together. Lucia asked Mason to take some of her songs somewhere more atmospheric, more exploratory, and that’s how this whole world began.
"A song that transports you away, gives you love in your soul, and is so calming."
“Ditt Hjärta” is sung entirely in Swedish, and somehow that makes it hit harder. You don’t need the words translated to feel what’s underneath them. Mason builds the track from field recordings, birdsong, wind, thunder, rustling trees, owls, the steady rhythm of oars moving through water, then weaves it all together with ambient synths, acoustic guitar, piano and soft percussion. Lucia’s voice moves through it like it was always meant to be there, luminous and unhurried.
The EP itself is called Djuphjärtad, Swedish for deep-hearted, and it moves between two currents. Songs like “Keep Me” and “Feel Your Eyes” hold the excitement of new love, while “Ditt Hjärta” and the wordless “Water Prayer” pull you somewhere quieter, more elemental. Lakes. Forests. The space between solitude and connection.
Listen to “Ditt Hjärta” and you’ll understand exactly why they called it deep-hearted.
Enjoy this lovely moment of love and peace.
HG x
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