Category: Music

  • Not Your Mom

    Not Your Mom

    A single

    Today a second single from my upcoming album is out. It is called Not Your Mom. You can take a listen, or ten from the link below. I hope you enjoy this song!

    The song was recorded in December 2020 by Mikael Hakkarainen. Alina Toivanen plays drums, Veli Kauppinen bass and Mikael Hakkarainen guitars. I play piano as usual. 

    Not Your Mom
    (by Astrid Swan)

    At night I’m not you mom
    cause I sleep
    and I can’t if I have to 
    think of you sleeping
    or bad dreams…
    bad dreams
    At night I’m not your mom
    cause I dream
    and I dance past midnight
    in my black jeans
    to dad’s old records playing
    What I keep from you
    won’t hurt you
    behind the dark side of the moon
    are all my secrets

    At night I’m not you mom
    cause I swim
    straight into the ocean
    to retrieve
    all the fallen stars
    so you can stick them to your ceiling

    What I bring to you
    is everything
    all my lights and all my blues
    all my dreams

    What I bring to you
    you can keep
    how you hold it in your heart
    that’s on you

    that’s what I’ll do
    that’s what I’ll do
    I make no promises that I can’t keep
    I make no promises that I can’t keep

    D/other comes in October 2021

    In other wonderful news I can tell you that my seventh album D/other is out on October 8th, 2021. 
    Soundi published the news today on their site. 

    You can preorder the album already from:

    Levykauppa Äx 

    All That Plazz

    I’ll be updating more live shows soon. 

    On August 18th I play a solo show as part of the annual Aboagora event in Turku. You can stream the show from anywhere in the world by registering before August 11th, here. (Follow the link on the page to free registration and you’ll receive a viewing link.)

    All cover art and pictures of me by Valreza Collective