Thea Gilmore - The Echo Line . . .single song “Homescar"

You do know about The Echo Line don’t you!? See the Guardian link below if you missed what our Thea is up to! 

Hello friends! There is a brand new song waiting for you today on The Echo Line. It’s called Homescar. It began with a beautiful message left on The Echo Line. Someone told me about their husband, who’d had the outline of their face tattooed on his body. Not a portrait, the actual outline, drawn by a tattooist while they were lying together cuddled up on the floor. He calls it their homescar. It’s a word borrowed from limpets. Those tenacious little creatures that travel out into the world and then return again and again to exactly the same place on their rock, eventually wearing a groove, a little hollow into it’s surface. But the message wasn’t really about the tattoo. It was about a man’s struggle with anxiety and depression and the extraordinary joy and relief of seeing someone you love begin to emerge from a dark place. It was about celebrating this person’s husband and about having somewhere to return to. I found it so moving. So I wrote a song. Some of you heard Homescar during the October tour, just me, a guitar and a bow. This recording features my son on strings. If you’re brand new here, The Echo Line is an ongoing project where people leave anonymous messages about their lives, I listen and sometimes I write songs in response. Those songs appear on a tiny little corner of the internet for a limited time and you can read all about the messages that inspired them as well. They’re not on streaming platforms and there’s nothing to buy or sign up for. They’re just there to be heard. Until they’re not there any more.

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You have 2 weeks.. then it disappears. And if you’re wondering why on earth I’m doing this, The Guardian published an amazing piece on The Echo Line, the stories people have entrusted to it and what happens when we really listen to one another.

Read The Guardian Feature

The last Echo Line song He Walks Like War was born from many voices, multiple messages and a great deal of anger about the state of the world. This one began with a single message about love. I’m so grateful that we’re building something together where both can exist in the same place. Go and have a listen to Homescar now. Much love Thea x