LOCAL musician Aimee Volkofsky will release her new EP, A bird can’t help but fly home, on Thursday, in the company of talented special guests at the Tipsy Camel.
An ode to the Far West region, Volkofsky said the title came from a line in a song she’s just released called West Texas Hills.
“It’s a song I wrote when travelling in America a couple of years ago, and what was supposed to be a nine-hour train trip turned into an 18-hour trip, from Texas to LA,” she said.
“It was amazing, I met lots of interesting people. But travelling through West Texas especially, it looks so much like the Far west.”
Volkofsky said the feeling of missing home when you’re away, and needing to get away when you’re home, is what inspired the title and theme of the album.
“I guess the overall theme of the album, because there’s a lot of songs about Broken Hill and the Far West, and the feeling that you have when you live out here of desperately loving and missing it when you’re not here, but also needing to get out and needing to see it from lots of different perspectives,” she said.
“Getting some distance to miss and appreciate it, but also not getting too bogged down in the isolation of it as well. It’s a bit of a love song to Broken Hill and the people here, saying, you’ll always be home. But sometimes the birds need to fly about a bit too.”
Volkofsky will be joined by Cat Moser on the fiddle, and supported by local musician Alyce Pogson and old-time friend William Alexander.
“William and I grew up together,” she said.
“I used to babysit William, we sort of grew up in each others pockets, but then lost contact for a while before meeting again through the music scene in Melbourne.”
Volkofsky said she’s also collaborating with local artist Selen Nazmiye Bilal who will be installing an artwork on the stage for the performance.
Tickets for the event are $25. The show will kick off on Thursday, August 7, at the Tipsy Camel, from 7.30pm.
