FAWM : Andrea Campanile (@mahtowin)

Andrea Campanile

@mahtowin

Songs

Joined

2021

Near Stutt DE
soundcloud.app.goo.gl/BPRT2ZmqJmUaJjVs8

I live on the country side in the south of Germany. I love to call myself a sound artist, poet and bass player. In my "real" life I work as a social worker and therapist. Music is a powerful force in my life which grows more and more in the last two years. I am a big fan of playing together. So I take any chance to do this. Since a few weeks I am a proud member of a band - playing the bass there.
My artist name is Mahtowin, which means Bear-Woman. It reflects my connection to the natural world and certain animal guides, which seem to inspire my work. The power of the icebear works inside me. And also the power of the Selkie. I think the icebear power makes me play the bass and my Selkie part makes me write some kind of very delicate lyrics sometimes. Both - the icebear and the Selkie are guides to me.
In music as in life I follow many traces. My personal goal is to be aware of what is around and inside me in the present. Now. Try not to think too much about the past or the future (which is hard sometimes, but I try). To stay in present and to recognize the beauty around me (which is a lot) and also the anger and grief, the love and the joy. To accept that all this is LIFE - and I love it!

I am back for my third FAWM!

Very interested in collabs!

Please also check out and listen to @dukemeyer, @dragondreams, @billwhite51, @fuzzy, @nancycunning and @safred

Call me she/her/Andrea/Mahtowin/Bear

Constructive feedback to my bass playing is welcome - but only if you have in mind that I started learning e-bass in Feb 2022 :-)
As you can see above I am German. English is not my mother tongue and I often struggle with the translation when I comment on songs - I try to do it but it will not be very detailed.

"I'll never be like other people, but that's alright because I'm a bear!"
(Paddington Bear)

Songs

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@wylddandelyon 5w

In English it is important to use the term trans woman, which conveys respect for the person’s status as a woman. (Unless you meant an intersex person or enby (from NB or non-binary) or trans man, of course.) I am assuming the phrase you used is a direct translation from a polite term in German, and that you would prefer to know the polite terms in English. I know if I could speak another language I would want to know those terms. If you have questions, I am happy to chat, here or more privately.

@yam655 5w

With regards to "I'm so Fragile" being about packing stuff would totally make sense. In that particular case, though, it was part of a set I sat down and sang to try to catch up. I started with the title, and I was thinking about inner fragility and personally cracking up. (Whether something that simply shakes the ego up or something that shatters the personal frame of reference for how reality is supposed to work.)

Being short leads to it sticking and being thought about more than spelling it all out. It's short and almost absurd, instead of long and potentially depressing. It's like a fairy you can only see out of the corner of your eye. If addressed head-on it becomes invisible.

@billwhite51 6w

i have tried to send an email from 2 different accounts and both give me an error message, so i will just copy here. i trust you to recognize what kind of music to use from a reading of the lyric. id like a full sound, witht he vocals dominating, and communicating pain, anger, resolve, courage, defeat, etcany questions as you are working on it, dont hesitate to ask meyour accent will not be a problem, those who havew trouble understanding the words have the printed lyrics to follow. what is important is you..your expression.

SISTERS OF THE BROKEN FEET

i was serenading a white lizard
in a trashed out double wide
a man came out of the shower
i had nowhere to hide
he came at me with a machete
saying "just give me a kiss"
i stuck a hairpin in his eye
and my life was set adrift
i guess it was my face to meet
the sisters of the broken feet

now im drinkin with the ghetto's hand me downs
in a shantytown house on puget sound
ive seen the grease in the geisha's comb
and the scalps in the ditch where the buffalo roam

im sitting on a sofa
that pulls out into a bed
with some friend of mia farrow's
whose face is cherry red
watching the big valley
calling it the audra show
at the station break he jumps me
he doesnt listen when i say no

i can find my way back home again
if i follow the scars and count my sins
through these unfamilar street
walk the sisters of the broken feet

i was down and out in texas
when two pretty boys came by
invited me to share their lunch
in their penthouse in the sky
they gave me a bath then took my clothes
and threw them in the hall
one held me down the other
tore apart my sugar walls

my face is battered, black and bruised
my belly lined with scars
the sisters of the broken feet
whisper "now you are one of ours"

We are sick of this life
Why wont they let us go straight?
Why do we exist?
Let our memory be dust
There must never be another generation
of women like us

@ambroise 6w

Haha Ich bin mit "lausig" durch ein Übersetzen gegangen...
Ich habe dir doch immer einfach verstanden.

So : Stimme und Basse ich Schon viel und genug. Viele unter meine Lieblingsbanden sind Bass/Stimme duos (Loïc Lantoine ; Musica Nuda ; Birds on a wire...)

Meine Sorge ist nur nichts in der Weg deiner Ton zu bringen. Dafür brauche Ich nur der Raum. Es gibt Raum in "Du bist der Nabel der Welt", aber mein gefühl ist dieses Raum hat ein Sinn. Als wie die Ansprechperson nichts anwortet. Wenn du diesen Raum nicht aus Füllen wilst, dann soll Ich nicht da Harmonica spielen.

Am Ende haben wir es nicht eilig. Wenn du spürst, dass es klappen könnte, gib mir ein Zeichen.
(Diesmal habe Ich Übersetzer fast nicht genutzt. Ich hoffe est ist jedoch schon verstandbar !)

Andrea Campanile

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