For the Love of MOTHER EARTH

Themes as seemingly disparate as love and ecology find their way into Skin, Aditi Veena's forthcoming EP

- Bhanuj Kappal

Aditi Veena has spent the past few years exploring the connections between her day job as an urban ecologist and her passion for music. The Berlin-based musician—who performs as Ditty—excels at crafting delicate, intimate tunes that pull at the strings of our relationship with the natural world. Her 2019 debut album Poetry Ceylon, written when she was working as a conservation architect in Sri Lanka, incorporated samples of birdsong, crashing waves and buzzing insects into a raw, organic-sounding record about the island nation, its people and its non-human inhabitants. Four years later, she’s back with ‘Hold Me’, the lead single off her forthcoming EP Skin, scheduled for release in March 2024. “I don’t write many love songs, but this is one,” says Veena. “I fell in love with my current partner and then we couldn’t be together, so this is essentially a song about that feeling.”