The fact that musicians sometimes process what they have experienced is not a unique selling point. But Aino Salto has the vehemence, the acumen and the ability to confront even the most unpleasant things with (black) humor like hardly anyone else. Born in France, raised in Leipzig and now living in Bern, the musician Sonia Loenne had the feeling for years that she had to vomit something musical, as she describes it in her own words. Something had to come out. But it wasn't clear what that was. Until I howled the music for my first album into the keys in the fall of 2023. Fortunately. Because Imagine People as Adolescent Birds is a collection of seven powerful songs, it's music about sisterhood and feminist mushroom networks (Mother Mushroom), anger (Anger) and life as the feeling of looking at power lines while driving (Powerlines). The music comes from the bottom of their hearts, from flugelhorn, double bass, keys and drums, from the bottom of their throats. Vomit drips out of every syllable, a mixture of fear, naivety, hopeless optimism and the scent of raspberries.