Ruckus July 19, 2024 by Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Songwriter Tivel connects with fans through lyrical openness

Once more, with feeling

RACHEL HERGETT

For the Chronicle

“Put on a song you can feel / the record is forever changing / the whole damn thing is in motion / and you are at the beginning,” Oregon-based songwriter Anna Tivel sings on “Two Truths,” off album ”Living Thing.”

In a way, these lyrics feel self-referential. Each song from Tivel, who will return to Live from the Divide in Bozeman on Wednesday, July 24, is a song you can feel. It’s kind of her M.O.

My introduction to Tivel’s music came a couple of years ago, by way of Bozeman musician and friend Dane Thompsen, who also happens to teach songwriting courses and help run shows at Live from the Divide. Our conversation, not shockingly, had turned to music — specifically lyrics. We shared the artists whose words were hitting most deeply in that moment and for Thompsen, that songwriter was Tivel.

“Anna’s lyrics seem so gentle at first, but nestled in the rasp of her voice are some truly cutting lines that stick with you for a long time,” Thompson wrote in a text message this week (while working a show at Live from the Divide). “Her brain works in such a lovely, haunting way, and it’s a pleasure to live in her world while listening to her songs.”

“Living Thing,” released in May, highlights the uncertainty felt as the world was gripped by a pandemic. Because Tivel couldn’t get a band together, she holed up with friend and producer Shane Leonard in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, “writing in a really isolated stationary silent place and kind of watching the neighborhood move by.”

Time felt expansive in the month Tivel lived on the couch in Leonard’s garage studio. And the lack of players forced exploration.

“We just tried everything and made all sorts of weird sounds,” she said, citing looping the sound of a lighter through a microphone backwards as an example.

PHOTO BY RACHEL HERGETT, FOR THE CHRONICLE

Anna Tivel performs at Live from the Divide in Bozeman on July 29, 2022.

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While she’s done some television work, the “Black Swan” (2010) Oscar winner is making her biggest step yet into that area with the Apple TV+ drama series “Lady in the Lake,” streaming a new episode each Friday. Also an executive producer of the project, which is based on Laura Lippman’s novel of the same name, Portman plays an investigative reporter in 1960s Baltimore who sacrifices her personal life to probe two murders with racial undercurrents. Moses Ingram (“The Queen’s Gambit”), Mikey Madison (“Better Things”) and Mike Epps (“The Upshaws”) also are featured.

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Arguably the best thing about “Spectre” is that Daniel Craig is still James Bond in it.

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Longtime Bond fans may be a little too critical of these movies, but too often, “Spectre” — which MGM+ shows Monday, July 22, with MGM+ Hits also running it on Friday, July 26 — goes by the numbers: a vicious train fight here (see “From Russia With Love”), an Aston-Martin car there (check “Goldfinger”). Still, great pleasure remains in seeing Craig embody Bond for what was the next-to-last time, pursuing the enemy organization that the star’s rebooted Agent 007 encounters.

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1) Name the Parisian neighborhood where “Amélie” (2001) is largely set.

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4) True or false: “An American in Paris” (1951) was filmed in Paris.

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For the album’s final track, “Gold Web,” Tivel opened up the door and tucked a microphone under the porch to record a passing storm. A sense of loneliness is highlighted by pouring rain and occasional thunderclaps as the song and album fade into the storm.

“Living Thing” is Tivel’s sixth full-length studio album of new, original material, and certainly not her last. She recorded another album with friends in Portland, Oregon, in February that is being mastered this month. Tivel also tends to release stripped-down acoustic or live versions of the albums.

A career in music is not something a young Tivel imagined for herself. Though she took up violin as a kid and loved to read and “scribble down little writing bits, the two passions didn’t come together into songwriting until her 20s when a new instrument seemed to give them room to grow. It was Tivel’s senior year of college. Nursing, her initial declaration, was out and she was instead wrapping up a degree in Spanish.

“I sort of just gently floundered,” she said. Her path ahead uncertain, Tivel toughed it out waiting tables. But at home she was discovering an openness between

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Through a Clouded Mirror by Miya T. Beck. Juvenile Fiction. The title suggests a trip thru a wardrobe, or looking glass, and that is what Yuki Snow, a middle-schooler settling into a new home and new school discovers, too. This portal takes the reader to Imperial Japan, on a fantastical trip culminating in a complex choice to be made. Great chapter book.

each strum of the chords learned on a borrowed guitar that created a natural framework for her poetry.

Guitar, Tivel said, is more conducive to songwriting. It has “a different feeling than the violin in a lot of ways. It just leaves a lot more space for words.”

Tivel describes the pull of writing and performing music as “drug-like.” There was never a conscious decision that she should pursue music full-time. Yet the music pulled at her, demanding her time and energy.

The

Door That Had Never Been Open Before by Mrs. & Mr. MacLeod. The three Grunion kids are told by their Great Grandmother to please leave this one particular door as it is: closed. What follows is hilarious and true to life and imaginative. The three-dimensional energy of the illustrations and the occasionally rhyming story are truly entertaining and instructive.

“I did it all the time in whatever way I could,” she said.

Everything became a song in her mind. Through the words, Tivel could explore feelings or interactions with those around her, poking at an emotion until it reveals the story it wants to tell. The resulting song may be awful, Tivel admits. Emotions are messy and it is important to accept the process.

Some compositions eventually begin to feel fulfilling. The songs scratch the itch, momentarily.

“There’ll be some sort of

FOR THE TEENS AND TWEENS

Meet Me in The Fourth Dimension by Rita Feinstein. Young Adult Graphic Novel. This novel in verse explores the danger and humanity of conspiracy in a post-truth world through empathy, friendship, and forgiveness. There’s this teen, named Crosby, who is sure she knows more than NASA and everyone else urging Earthers to rise up and out of their bodies. Is she right, or wrong?

If You Go ...

Anna Tivel with Sam Weber Wednesday, July 24, 8 p.m. Live from the Divide 627 E. Peach St., Bozeman $45, livefromthedivide.com

and not be part of the equation, the inherent sense of stillness of her music and depth in its lyrics demand connection.

“It’s really intimate,” she said. “It’s a different exchange than you have meeting somebody briefly in a bar or something. It’s like, ‘okay, here’s the deepest shit that I’ve ever meandered through.’ And then people respond with all the weight of their experiences and their thoughts. That feels really powerful.”

satisfaction and then I kind of want to do that out loud for some insane reason…” Tivel said.

The urge shifts to sharing the new, or even partially completed, pieces with an audience. Then to putting the songs together on an album.

“It’s all very strange,” she said.

Tivel is often barefoot on stage. Contact with the ground beneath her is a trick she uses to settle into the space, to be present in the moment. Though there is a part of her that would rather she have a paper bag over her head

Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell. Young Adult Fiction. When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren’s missing sister, Mara thinks she’ll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation. Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, is found murdered. Now, Mara and her friends must clear their names. But could one of them be the killer?

Unstoppable! My Journey from World Champion

So on stage, she takes deep breaths, noticing, listening to and sometimes eavesdropping on those around her until she can feel the space through her feet and in her body. She’s constantly chasing an openness with both her feelings and her audience, chasing the high that sharing in music can bring.

“It feels like aliveness,” Tivel said. “Like you’re living your life as it happens versus waiting for it to begin or battling against it or protecting yourself from it.”

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to Athlete A to 8-time NCAA National Gymnastics Champion and Beyond by Maggie Nichols; with Hope Innelli. With the Olympics fast approaching (Yay!) revisit this story of the USA Gymnastic team, the young woman who brought the monsters there to justice and the true meaning of winning.

Beth Boyson is a Programming Librarian and Cataloger at Bozeman Public Library. She can be reached through the Library website at www.bozemanlibrary.org.

PHOTO BY RACHEL HERGETT, FOR THE CHRONICLE

Anna Tivel performs at Live from the Divide in Bozeman on July 29, 2022.

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“Batman: Caped Crusader” - Season 1 (Prime Video — Aug. 1, Series Premiere)

Welcome to Gotham City, where the corrupt outnumber the good, criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear. Forged in the fire of tragedy, wealthy socialite Bruce Wayne (Hamish Linklater) becomes something both more and less than human—the Batman. His one-man crusade for justice attracts unexpected allies within the police and City Hall, but his heroic actions spawn deadly, unforeseen ramifications.

“Unstable” - Season 2 (Netflix — Aug. 1, Season Premiere) In Season 2, universally admired, eccentric, narcissist-adjacent biotech entrepreneur Ellis Dragon (Rob Lowe) lays out a series of challenges and mind games for his son Jackson (John Owen Lowe) to see if he has what it takes to succeed him as the heir to the Dragon empire. But does a newcomer have other ideas?

Solution on page 12

2024 Summer Olympics

Questions:

1) The 2024 Summer Olympics will be held in Paris, France, a nation tied to Olympic history. When was the last Olympic games (Summer or Winter) to be hosted in France?

2) Paris now becomes the second city in the world to have hosted the Olympics on three separate occasions. Name the city to have achieved it ﬁrst.

3) Each medal awarded to athletes at Paris 2024 will contain metals from which iconic landmark?

4) Having both won seven Olympic gymnastics medals, who are the co-record holders for most Olympic medals by a U.S. gymnast?

5) Which unconventional sport will make its Olympic Games debut at Paris 2024?

6) A must-watch for sport and history fans, which historic location is set to host all equestrian events at Paris 2024?

7) Seeking to become the ﬁrst three-time Olympic champion in shot put, who is the American-born athlete seeking a third consecutive gold at Paris 2024?

8) Name the WNBA player who was named tournament MVP at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

9) What surface will be used for tennis courts at the 2024 Summer Olympics?

10) Which city is set to host the following Summer Olympic Games in 2028?

Answers: