Coconut Mirror by Connie Lovatt

Connie Lovatt
Coconut Mirror
(chickfactor’s Enchanté Records 007)

Connie Lovatt grew up in St. Thomas and has lived in New York and Los Angeles. She previously made music with Containe, the Pacific Ocean, Alkaline, and Smog. Coconut Mirror is a family record and a love letter/life guide to her daughter—full of carefully constructed songs about drownings, cockfights, the ocean, happiness, drug dealers, poverty, heartache and love—written over the past decade or more in Silver Lake/Los Feliz and Wellington, New Zealand. Because of time and space and COVID, the musicians who play on the album recorded their own parts and sent them in to Connie, who worked with Joe Wohlmuth on crafting her solo singer-songwriter debut into a beautiful whole with some of the music world’s most sparkling gems playing on it.

“Everyone that I’ve loved is in this record. Everyone that matters—women, men, they’re all in there somewhere … I wanted to show my daughter that I could still make something after giving birth. I wanted to make a record with acoustic guitar where I’m telling my daughter all the stories that mattered to me.” — Connie Lovatt

Tracklist

1.	Gull	2:53

2.	Kid	4:13

3.	Heart	2:58

4.	Basin	2:57

5.	Snow	3:20

6.	Lines	3:50

7.	Broke	4:08

8.	Honest	1:26

9.	Sisters	2:10

10.	Sleep	4:12

11.	Zodiac	2:22

Credits

released September 27, 2023

All songs written by Connie Lovatt (BMI) copyright 2023

Produced by Connie Lovatt

Recorded by the artists and Joe Wohlmuth

Connie Lovatt (acoustic guitar, vocals, backing vocals, tambourine)

James McNew (bass)

Jim White (drums)

Phoebe Gittins (piano on “Broke,” “Gull,” “Heart,” “Honest,” “Kid,” “Snow,” “Zodiac”)

Max Tepper (synthesizer on “Heart,” “Honest,” “Snow,” “Sleep,” “Zodiac”)

Rebecca Cole (keyboards on “Basin,” “Broke,” “Sisters,” “Snow”)
  
Che Chen (lead guitar on “Sleep,” “Snow,” “Lines”)

Lucy Laforge (backing vocals, harmonica on “Sisters”)

Bill Callahan (vocals on “Kid”)

James Baluyut (pedal steel on “Sisters”)

Hartley Nandan (screaming on “Sleep”)

Engineered and mixed by Joe Wohlmuth

Mastered by Jeff Lipton and Maria Rice at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA

Cover: Pencil drawing by Jennifer Lovatt / Special effects by Adam Woodward

Photograph of CL: Gail O’Hara

Thanks to Ravi Nandan, Gail O’Hara, Philippa Boyens, Seth Miller, the Jacksons, Margaret Lovatt, Mandy Lovatt, Jennifer Lovatt, Jeffra Nandan, Dawn Sutter Madell, Diana Horowitz and Lucy LaForge

Much obliged to Bill Callahan for shedding a tear

For Hartley Ann

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