L.A-based artist Shana Cleveland (member of La Luz) announces a new album, Manzanita via Hardly Art Records. Manzanita is a special record because it's Shana's first release since she was diagnosed with breast cancer around a year ago. Today she releases the second taster of the record, 'A Ghost', following on from 'Faces in the Firelight'. Opening 'A Ghost' is gently-plucked acoustic guitar, accompanied by a lulling shaker. Indulging in simple production and songwriting, mellotron and strings enhance the folky nature of the song, reminiscent of 1960s artists like Fairport Convention and Vashti Bunyan. Shana wrote Manzanita while pregnant and shortly after giving birth with that experience informing a lot of her songwriting. Of today’s single she says, “I never really gave pregnancy and childbirth very much thought, and when I did become pregnant I was surprised by how much of a psychedelic experience it was. A subtitle for this album could be: ‘What to Expect When You Are Open to the Mysteries of the Universe.’ When I sat outside the house looking out across the field, the chemistry and shape of my body constantly changing, I understood that I was no different than the plants and animals around me.” Check out 'A Ghost' and the accompanying video here. -Ellie Edna Rose-Davies