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From The Desk Of Orenda Fink: Little White Dogs

Orenda Fink is known for her quiet, introspective songs and her unobtrusive approach to singing. Her music, both on her own solo albums and with Azure Ray (the band she fronts with longtime friend Maria Taylor), tends to be forlorn and unsettling, albeit imbued with an underlying belief in the ultimate goodness of existence. The songs on her new album, Blue Dream were inspired by the death of her dog, as well as general meditations on the limitations of existence on the material plane. On the LP, Fink goes deep into the primal questions of death and the meaning of life. The lyrics are dark, but the music is bright and buoyant, although still played at the laid-back tempos that are her forte. Fink will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new feature on her.

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Fink: I don’t know what my thing is with little white dogs, but I’ve had one pretty much my entire life starting at age 12 with our childhood dog, Muggs. I just lost my dog of 16 years, Wilson, not too long ago, and I was so heartbroken it took me awhile to even think about getting another. But when we finally got our new dog, Grimm, I realized, by George, I have picked out another little white dog! Thus completing a lifelong trifecta of little white dogs. I don’t know if they are my spirit animals or reincarnated from each other or just darn cute, but I imagine one day when I am older and more sedentary, I will collect a small herd of weird little white dogs and lay around with them in a white room in a white dress. This is my version of being the crazy cat lady.