Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.

All the broken and shunned creatures.

Someone's got to care for them.

Who shall it be if not us? Yes.

Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from

43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we welcome to the show producer, singer, songwriter Nika Danalova,

aka Zola Jesus. Nika has released five albums over the last decade or so and in 2017 moved back onto family land in

Wisconsin and built a cabin in the woods. She also played Dark Mofo down here in

Tasmania last year so we have some overlaps and similarities

particularly around creativity and place that led to a really fruitful post-materialist discussion of such things. So enjoy.

Nika welcome aboard.

Thanks for having me. This is awesome.

Yeah, yeah, that it is. And we were talking before I hit the record button that this is a really fun

lunar eclipse activity because that's exactly what's going on right now.

Yes, it's, it's it's cosmic.

Yeah, definitely cosmic.

All right, well, well, well, first-time guest,

traditional first-time question, Nika,

and I'm super looking forward to this one were you a weird kid?

Yeah probably yeah yes definitely yeah yeah such as Yes, definitely. Yeah.

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