How I Found Her
My family does extended song challenges. We challenge each other with music prompts that result in wildly different tastes. It’s so fun to learn about everyone’s music taste—which is highly personal and often revealing.
It helps us all find new music along the way. Our collective taste is eclectic and I love that about us (*my chin is up, ’cause I’m so in awe of them).
So that’s how I found Anna Justen’s music.
The Story Behind the Music
The album is called MiCHOU’s DREAM (no typo there), and before you even press play, the backstory earns your attention. Michou was Anna’s childhood cat — a creature apparently devoted to music, who would plant himself beside her while she played guitar and sang. The album is his dream, figuratively. It imagines what Michou might have dreamed: his family finding peace through life’s ups and downs, moving from addiction and loss toward acceptance and harmony.