Holmes Ives

Sometimes the universe hands you exactly what you need through the most unlikely messenger.

An electronic producer named Holmes Ives, who had previously worked on some remixes for her, blindly sent her a batch of instrumental tracks.

And he didn't know.

He had absolutely zero knowledge that she was battling cancer.

A way to process everything.

Exactly.

She didn't even inform Holmes Ives about what the lyrics meant or what she was going through until they were already working on their fourth track together.

This organic, desperate need to create culminated in a ten-chapter album titled Rooms with a View.

Right.

I didn't want that to happen, and it's interesting, you know, when I was sat at home journaling how I was feeling, and Holmes Ives, who I'd met before because he did a couple of remixes of my work, and he's an electronic producer, he, out of the blue, sent me a few instrumental tracks and said, "If you fancy having a go at collaborating on any of these, you know, go ahead." He didn't know I was going through my cancer treatment.

And so I heard this one piece, and it was the music for The Messenger, and I just happened to be writing about cancer being a messenger and how it changes you.

You look at life in a very different way.