My Mother in Love: the Studio Sessions
A Professor Girlfriend Project
A boy sits on the stairs, engrossed in a book about war From time to time, he looks up to take in the sight of his mother, who has her head down on the kitchen table and is not moving. Is she breathing? Is she going to make dinner? Does his sister know? Is everything okay?
So begins My Mother in Love, a set of ten songs that ponder adult love and heartbreak in the presence of children from the point of view of a mother and her young son. Originally composed by Anna Weesner for Cygnus Ensemble, the songs are released here in new studio versions as a Professor Girlfriend project (Weesner, singer Charlotte Mundy, producer-engineer Charles Mueller), along with four bonus tracks.
My Mother in Love
1. Reading on the Stairs
2. Dinnertime
3. My Sister
4. Spare Parts
5. Powers
6. Lament: Invisible
7. Fierce
8. Laughing
9. Reading Before Sleeping
10. Okay?
Bonus Tracks
11. Circular Argument
12. When Girls Learn the Alphabet
13. The Very Air
14. Why the Dialectic?
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Release date: August or September, 2025
Anna Weesner, composer, lyricist, producer
Charles Mueller, engineer, producer
Charlotte Mundy, vocals
Mike Tierney, mastering
Olive Forgash, assistant engineer
Tiny Panther Recording
Willa Rohrer, design
Instrumental credits:
Anna Weesner, piano (tracks 5, 14)
Cameron LeCrone, drums (tracks 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 13, 14)
Carrie Frey, viola (track 14)
Charles Mueller, guitar, bass guitar (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14)
Charlotte Mundy, vocal (all tracks)
Helen Newby, cello (track 14)
James Austin Smith, oboe (tracks 4 and 9)
Jessica Thompson, violin, viola (track 1, 2, 5, 7, 10)
Laura Cocks, flute, piccolo, alto flute, bass flute (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13)
Madison Greenstone, clarinet, bass clarinet (tracks 1, 2, 7, 11, 13)
Marina Kifferstein, violin (tracks 4, 9, 12)
Oren Fader, guitar (tracks 11, 13)
Roberta Michel, flute, piccolo (track 10)
Robby Garrison, trumpet (track 14)
Robert Burkhart, cello (tracks 2, 5, 6, 8, 10)
Sarah Goldfeather, violin (tracks 11, 13, 14
Sian Ricketts, oboe, recorders, finger cymbals (tracks 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10)
Yuhan Su, vibraphone (track 13)