Aujourd’hui, la montréalaise Helena Deland partage un morceau intime à la sincérité désarmante, Swimmer. La chanson est dédiée à sa mère qui est décédée l’année dernière. La vidéo qui l’accompagne est filmée par Helena elle-même, en hélicoptère, au dessus du Saint-Laurent.
Dans les mots de l’artiste:
“A little while after finding out that my mother was sick and that our days together were numbered, I went through a fundamental change, faced as I was with the need to reconsider things I had taken for granted. Growing older with her was now an impossible scenario, but I was being offered a suspension, some time to understand and try to change patterns that had been detrimental to our relationship, and to love her how I wished for her to be loved. I feel that we are in a similar predicament with the world, faced with the climate crisis.
Some losses are too big to wrap our minds around. Here, I am on the beach, watching my mother swim, faced with the immensity of the ocean, of our fragility, riding the troughs of magical thinking and crests of acceptance.”
‘How detailed and hopeful,
how exact
everything is in the light
on the rippling sand,
at the edge of the turning tide —
its upheaval —
its stunning proposal —
its black, anonymous roar.’
-Mary Oliver, “Clamming”, Dreamwork
La sortie de Swimmer suit Someone New, le premier album acclamé par la critique de la montréalaise, et précède de peu le début d’une tournée mondiale, de février à mai 2022, qui l’amènera au 4 coins des États-Unis et de l’Europe en première partie de Andy Shauf et The Weather Station. Des spectacles en tête d’affiche sont aussi prévus à Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Toronto, Montréal et Québec.
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Gérance
Nycholas Fortin -
Relation de Presse US
Catherine Herrick -
Relation de Presse UK
Debbie Ball -
Booking spectacle US
Karl Morse -
Booking spectacle EU
Nikita Lavrinenko -
Booking spectacle CA
Michael Bardier
Vidéos
Swimmer
Helena Deland - Someone New - full album live in studio
Fruit Pit (Live From The Roof)
Fill the Rooms (Live From The Roof)
Comfort, Edge
Pale
Truth Nugget
Helena Deland - Someone New (Live From The Roof)
Someone New
Lylz
A Take Away Show - La Blogothèque
Claudion
Helena Deland @ ARTE Concert Festival
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