Elly Kace
Nothing I see means anything
The songs on Nothing I see means anything came out of necessity. During her first European audition tour as an operatic soprano, Kace had to flee Italy at the start of the pandemic to go back to her New York City home. “At the time I was feeling excited about the prospect of a European career, and then to experience such a world-changing, death-filled thing instead was really difficult,” says Kace. “But it was a painful lesson that there is never any control, ever.” Back in her Brooklyn apartment, the paradigm shifting upheaval though difficult, gave Kace the time to recenter herself. A certified JM Vinyasa yoga instructor, Kace began obsessing over her daily Sanskrit meditations as well as two phrases from the influential book A Course in Miracles: “Nothing I see means anything” and “Bless them all.” These phrases would serve as her North Star for writing the entire album.