Otterson

Diana began work on her latest album, Otterson, during the COVID shutdown. “I was locked away like pretty much everyone else on the planet. And it was that isolation that let me go deeper into myself, and then these songs started coming. At the time, I didn’t understand what they were all about, but a unifying theme emerged – loss. Loss of a relationship, an animal, self, faith, and a shedding of emotions I had carried around for years.” For Diana, it wasn’t the writing that proved the most difficult, but rather, the recording. “I’m used to recording alone in my apartment, on 4-track cassette. This time, I was encouraged by other musician-friends to learn to use a DAW. They all said how easy it would be. It wasn’t. The whole experience was crazy and pretty much everything that could break, or go wrong technically, did. It was so bad, I almost gave up. But I didn’t. I kept trying.” The result is a collection of songs that