Beatrix returns to haunt her own past on the new single and video ‘Ghosts of Tennessee.’ Now based in Los Angeles, Arielle Kasnetz, who performs under the moniker Beatrix, is creating music that feels the truest to herself. For most of her life, she trained in classical music and graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville as a classical voice major. But the stories she told weren’t hers, the words and the feelings somebody else’s who had lived a long time ago. Now writing and releasing her own music, she returns to Tennessee like an apparition, to haunt someone who knew the former her.

‘Ghosts of Tennessee’ is built upon a staccato of Morse code, a direct translation of the song’s lyrics. Beatrix’s delicate, double-tracked vocals are met with eerily beautiful strings, as she revisits a long-gone relationship, letting its ghost become achingly present. Using pedal steel as the voice of the ghost, the song creates an off-kilter, yearning atmosphere that combines indie rock, folk and chamber-pop; something that takes you somewhere between the past and the future, that isn’t the present.

Beatrix paints the scenery, saying, “Ten years pass… then suddenly, a message. Morse code drones underneath hushed hums and iridescent strings. Love has faded with time – but  something, or someone, remains in limbo. It’s autumn on the quad at Vanderbilt University. The leaves are  golden yellow, burnt orange, and brown— remnants of the seeds from which they were born— just like  the song that plays all these years later. You can’t look away, you can’t turn off the music, you’re too far  gone now… You let it wash over you and surrender.”

In the official video, directed by Rogue Bonaventura, Beatrix is cloaked in the dark, romantic forest. Unsettling, yet serene, she sings straight into the soul of the listener, as she slowly walks her way deeper into the water.