Descending from the celestial attics to the ethereal planes of earth with Kate de Rosset; press photo courtesy of the artist.

Cycles of thought can spin in perpetuity on the axis of their own invisible flywheel. These are the things that consume us, the celluloid picture spools that uncoil at the most inopportune moments in the throes of late sleepless nights that rob the weary body and spirit of much needed rest. The traumas that traipse back from the buried and out of sight landfills of abandoned recall trounce the constructive aspirations of the spirit for the sport of showcasing obsessive shame and resentment Möbius loops that insidiously play like reruns from the most cursed film festival imaginable. The things that we wish we have moved on from, gotten away from, unceremoniously return with a vengeance to corrode what self-esteem remains in the fragile chasms and chambers that are housed in the sacred sanctuary of human cognition.

In the grips of these all but out of control spirals is the remembrance of grace. A grace akin to the kindness we express within our own communities, but one that we do not always allow or offer for ourselves. The internalized prosecution as our worst judge, jury, and executioner makes us stand trial for everything that we feel are impeachable offenses from embarrassing and awkward faux pas, to everything outside the scope of control and incidents from lifetimes ago that demonstrated a wanton lack of maturity. If we move past the polemic debates over degrees of culpability we can gain a whole new renewed lease on life. A world where the bondage ropes and chained burdens fall from our person to the dusty ground that mark new eras of reclaimed personhood.

In this spirit of healing, humanity, and spiritual growth is the glorious new song "What Wish" from the musical pop painter of new ages, newer waves and new-new romantics Kate de Rosset. Featured on the new album It Will Burn arriving in the new year from La Double Vie: the sentiment and expressive intent is one that reaches toward higher grounds and places of unbridled bliss and thanksgiving. It Will Burn acknowledges the torrid and roughshod ways the material realm moves in all of its uncompromising, obstinate, and unconscionable manners of self-serving, short-sighted pigheadedness. Kate shares a series of meditations that lend more than merely coping with the catastrophes that exceed the limitations of singular control and finds the things that bring greater degrees of meaning and deliverance from an otherwise fleeting society of questionable stability that forever finds itself flirting with the drain circling whirlpool trajectories of entropy.

Presenting the debut of “What Wish” where Kate de Rosset gathers old photos, home family movies, pensive thoughts, and other meditative notions into the mystic tranquility of night. Visuals filmed by the artist along with Patricia Parker, Paton Davis, and collaborator Kyle J. Reigle: Kate finds a midnight epiphany of self-love/self-care with rose garden dances that fight back against the internalized restlessness of incessant negative thoughts. Following the lush timeless splendor of “Silver Screen”, Rosset continues to create cinéma pour l'oreille, et cinéma pour l'âme, where the theater of the senses become ignited in ways where meager words fail to convey the grand vision and scope of the works at hand. "What Wish" roots itself in those visceral and vibrant visions of the imagination that can not be easily quelled, satisfied in full, let alone easily sedated (or vanquished). Kate crafts a resilient ballad of transcendence where everything that the artist can do without become lighter than air in lyrical and musical gestures toward greater heights of kindness and serenity of the self as a whole. These discoveries are shared with the spirit assuaging beauty found in Kate's recitations of 'be gentle with myself, be gentle with yourself' that calm the tempests, and incessant weeping and gnashing of teeth that turns the turbulence inside out in favor of a more benign and bountiful peace.

The video takes the audience into those privy places of evening when the surrounding world has largely fallen fast asleep. The DIY spirit of Kate de Rosset's music is further conveyed through visions of nostalgia that rummages through artifacts, archaic remnants, and personal effects that house a maelstrom of memories. The meditative nature of "What Wish" is actualized through intimate collections of celebrations captured on camera, candid VHS visuals of the artist as a youth, mixing footage of dance and choir recitals, that illustrate Kate's career and performance portfolio from discovering the piano, to scoring DIY pop symphonies on synthesizers, and helming the unique and universe spinning sound through the advent of home studio recording. The visuals marry together the vulnerable expressions of "Wish" in stirring blends that mix past and present with a resounding resolve that dances toward new destinies, new nights, new dawnings, new destinations, and new frames of mind.

The album commences with the spark of "Ignite": a song of patience, purpose, and courage where Kate's trademark choral production and delivery echoes through halls that recollect the ancients, the modern, and all the chamber resonances that lay in the great hereafter. The glow flickers strong on "Burn Bright" that casts a light upon the shadowy paths in a focused ballad of determination that operates like inverted hyperpop in measures to speak to the spirits that hide from within. The previously released "Silver Screen" gently shimmers like the solemn anthem that plays after a decisive battle scene, replete with a resolution enacted amongst all noble-hearted parties at play (dearly recouping losses as the faint promise of gains linger like the rise of a brand new day, after the torrential storms of a terrible night). The motif of light carries on throughout with songs like "The Spark" that rise up cautiously with the reluctance of a lionhearted soul that has awaited the emergence of sunrise since the solar departures left at the previous sunset.

With church organs set to stirring rhythms, "Cool Blue Flame" illuminates with an eternal flame to lend its fire to an inextinguishable desire that seeks something beyond the temporal…standing firm with one foot over the threshold of the eternal. "Amethyst Ring" glimmers like a royal purple stone on a golden band that floats between worlds like a charm with the power to transport its host to uncharted passages past the sullen sycamore trees, and gravely groves of fallow lands. New paths that lead to new worlds present themselves with "In the New" that closes the album with a chance to start once again, embracing a beginning that moves forward to the places that nourish the soul and mind that leaves behind the violent, bellicose, flammable, and easily combustible worlds.

Kate de Rosset crafting hymnals of the esoteric ethereal orders; press photo courtesy of the artist.

Kate offered some succinct reflections on the inspirations and hopes behind the new song:

"What Wish" is a song inspired by rumination and the desire to heal.

Kate de Rosset splitting the apple down symmetrical lines; press photo via Bandcamp.

It's my wish for me, and for you.

Kate de Rosset’s fifth album It Will Burn will arrive January 9 via La Double Vie.

PREMIERE Kate de Rosset, "What Wish"