Having fronted the band She Owl for over a decade, playing more than 300 concerts across Europe and the US, Jolanda Moletta turns both inwards and backwards for her debut as a solo artist. Her album, Nine Spells, is the product of an ongoing search for ancestral connection and healing, each piece being dedicated to one of her female ancestors. In collecting their photographs and learning their stories, Jolanda found their courage and endurance to imbue her own present experience with healing echoes. These were channelled into nine handcut collages, which gave rise to Spells, which in turn were used to inspire nine pieces of lyricless, a capella composition. Unencumbered by instruments, and unfiltered by words, Jolanda’s heartfelt radiations emanate with each Spell. A way to express an entire lifeline in one single breath, a way to represent and move emotional mountains, clouds full of tears and winds of laughter, infinite gardens where memories and desires intertwine and work together. To break the frame and let the paint spread throughout the wall.