That's a track, all set.

That's a track in the belladrone. All lines are curved in the bellaradrone. We pitch and row, wheels, flesh and bones, total control, and it's ours alone. We lean to turn. That's a track from Dessa's new album, Sound the Bells, which she recorded with the Minnesota Orchestra. Dessa's hit the Billboard charts as a solo artist, a member of the Doom Tree Collective,

and with her contribution to the Hamilton Mix Tate.

She's also got projects ranging from the scientific and experimental to a collaboration with Izzy's ice cream,

which is all to say that Dessa is a person and an artist who defies categorization.

Dessa, there are so many places we could start this conversation. So first tell me,

were you always a person who was firing on like 10 cylinders?, man. I mean, I think I'm naturally curious.

I would say that I have been interested in more than one thing at a time for a lot of my life.

But I think we receive the message when we're little that like your work life is going to follow one trajectory.

You're not going to be like a, I don't know, a physicist and a bespoke furniture designer professionally.

But like you totally, you totally can.

Right. Did you have anyone growing up around you who had that type of life?

I did, yeah. I mean, nobody who was like

raking in the cash, but my dad had really wide-ranging interests when I was little too. He had a

really strong idea about like what vocation and work is. He said, your job, well, he didn't say

your job. Your goal is to do what you love and find someone who's willing to pay you for that. You know, like that's what work is. That's what work means. You know, he was a musician. He played the lute, which is like the Elizabethan, you know, precursor to the guitar. Yeah, I mean, it's just like kind of esoteric from jump. And then after that he became a glider pilot, which are those

planes. Sure. As you do, those planes without motors. It was long days to earn enough money to

raise a couple kids doing those things. But he dug it. And I'm sure that part of that stuck. And also,

I think I'm just his kid. I really want

the hours that I spend working to count, not to only finance the hours that I'm not working.

Is your mom like that? I would say to some extent, too. Yeah. I mean, she maybe naturally,

like, had a skill that was more lucrative she worked for like honeywell and then

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