MEGGO Releases Her Debut EP “eavesdropper ;; death stories”
MEGGO, the creative project of Montreal-based musician and producer Megan Ennenberg, invites listeners into an intimate world with her debut EP, “eavesdropper ;; death stories”, a masterclass in capturing the raw beauty of life’s fleeting moments. Standout track, “sylvia’s place ;; tricks,” serves as a poignant meditation on love, loss, and presence, blending acoustic roots with experimental soundscapes to create a piece that feels both nostalgic and timeless.
Recorded during a deeply personal period of grief, “sylvia’s place ;; tricks” came to life at the piano in a friend’s home shortly after MEGGO’s beloved dog, Laika, passed away.
I wrote this song right after we had to put Laika down. She was the best little friend– came to every band practice, was such an epic buddy, and taught me so many tricks; how loving, and loving well, feeds us; how innately we understand and respond viscerally to love; how it helps us be healthy. I hardly play the piano, but I sat down at one at my friend Sylvia’s place and wrote, and the tune opens with the moment I found the melody. The track is full of sounds from a goodbye party we threw for her, with friends laughing and crying and jamming, sometimes all three at once, with Laika right in the middle eating spaghetti smothered in bacon fat, seeming quite content and completely oblivious. That raw real visual is the heart of this song, and the EP as a whole – it’s about being present enough to notice fleeting moments, about holding sadness and joy in the same breath. – MEGGO
“eavesdropper ;; death stories” is the first in a three-part EP series that MEGGO plans to release throughout 2025, each chapter exploring a different facet of her journey through love, loss, and healing. This debut offering transforms everyday sounds into musical textures, blurring the line between life and art. From the creak of a gate to a friend’s violin experimentations, MEGGO layers field recordings with acoustic and digital elements to craft a deeply immersive, genre-bending soundscape. Inspired by personal losses, the EP serves as a “grief sieve,” filtering profound awareness through its songs.
The EP is for Izzy, Bousi, Laika, Elizabeth, Jerry, Jo-Ann, Benson and Dani, who have all passed away in the last few years. Each of them have taught me epic lessons to live by in their lives and in their passing. I myself almost didn’t notice that the EP was forming out of my grief for them, but it had been acting like a sieve for everything else, all the other stuff that wasn’t death. At times, the grief launched me into constant movement where I would travel and go go go and never settle, but slowly I found so much healing in slowing, in noticing small things – like a yawn, or birds, or the rhythm in footsteps, or my roommates violin experimentations in the next room over, or my partner yelling to me “Look Megan, it’s our future home!” as we walked the streets of Manchester – a million little fleeting things.
My work has been to open up enough to notice them, and capture them in recordings if I was lucky, and to be grateful. The gratitude snuck in as I eavesdropped on these magic moments, little Trojan horses that reminded me that it is really an honour to be here to witness them. This is what the double-semicolon says too ;; it says pause, then pause again. Take it in, then stay for one more beat and take it in again, and something might show itself to you. – MEGGO
Listen to “eavesdropper ;; death stories” on: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/meggo1/eavesdropper--death-stories