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Basia Bulats nya singel Baby ligger nu i SR Portalen!
Det kommande albumet Basia´s Palace har samproducerats med frekventa samarbetspartnern Mark Lawson och mixats av den legendariske producenten Tucker Martine (Beth Orton, Neko Case, The National) och kommer att släppas den 21 februari 2025, via Secret City Records/Playground Music. Och Montreal-baserade Basia släpper idag fokus-singeln "Baby" - en lyxig låt med stråk- arrangemang av GRAMMY-nominerade Drew Jurecka (Dua Lipa, Alvvays, Metric). Singeln kommer tillsammans med en underbar video gjord av regissören Nora Rosenthal.
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Basia berättar om låten:
“I wrote this song many years ago but never could get the lyrics and performance quite right. I wanted to try it again after becoming a parent–it’s about how we can’t control how or when we’re going to evolve even when we desperately want to. We keep making the same mistakes until we notice a pattern repeating, and even then, change is hard when we have to fully surrender to it. Could I make that predicament something I wanted to dance to? Could I sing the lyrics with joy instead of the sorrow I was channeling in the past?” explains Bulat of “Baby.” “Nothing in my life has made me want to evolve faster, better, stronger than parenthood and the universe keeps throwing that desire back at me with a laugh and a wink, reminding me that things take time and to just love myself for being human. So this song from my past I couldn’t let go of finally made it onto a record–after all the times I tried to get it right I knew I finally had ‘the take’ when my daughter kept asking to hear it again.”
Regissören Nora Rosentha om videon:
“Basia’s album exists between worlds and between time-scales, referencing her Polish heritage and her dual identities as a singer/songwriter and a mother. These videos emerged in part through conversations we’ve had about the blurred lines that exist between anyone’s senses of self, but especially among performers, as well as our mutual fascination with the objects passed down from generation to generation, and which becomes stand-ins for memory,” says Rosenthal.“The textiles used in ‘Baby,’ for example, belong to Basia’s family. We wanted to build a tiny microcosm of home to exist alongside Basia on stage – three generations of women inhabiting the joy of this song, together.”
Basia Bulat har charmat den skandinaviska publiken sedan debutalbumet ”Oh, My Darling” som släpptes 2007, följt av en rad hyllade album som Heart Of My Own, Tall Tall Shadow med flera. Hon har spelat i Skandinavien ett antal gånger, bl.a Way Out West. Senast hon spelade här var på ett fullsmockat Taverna Brillo, i början av mars 2020, på dagen innan svenska nöjesvärlden stängde ner pga av pandemin! Snart åker Basia ut på stor nord-amerikansk turné och vi räknar med att hon efter den, kommer till oss i Skandinavien!
Mer om albumet Basia´s Palace:
The property at the heart of Basia’s Palace is at once her apartment, her jam-space, and the inside of her head. It is a place festooned with love and memory, and bad wiring; it’s a paradise that comes alive in the wee hours of the night–a time that’s suited to video games and Leonard Cohen records, when you sit in all that richness and take in all the mess we inherit. Basia’s Palace got its start in 2022. A new home, a new family, a pause: the singer was finally finding time to hear her own thoughts, to think about old stories, to boot up her Nintendo to play Dragon Warrior 4. It brought to mind anecdotes Bulat had heard about Cohen—how he used to do his best writing at three or four a.m., before his kids woke up, when he’d sit and toy with his Casio’s presets. Now it was Bulat sneaking down to play RPGs or to make music on her MacBook, listening for the spirit-world at a time when the veil felt thinnest. The songs she was creating didn’t feel like anything she had recorded before—MIDI soundscapes that floated and gleamed, like hidden levels above (or below) the action. And as she looked around at the relics and heirlooms of life, she found herself thinking about her memories differently, too, and finding new ways of understanding all that happened in her life across the years.
The album that emerged from all this is the softest and most searching of her career. Basia’s Palace is like a time-travel score, with Bulat akin to Chrono Trigger’s intrepid adventurer, going back into the past to shape the events of the future. After years of releasing records where live performance came first—culminating in The Garden, which reimagined some of her best-loved songs with help from a string quartet—the singer-songwriter wanted to express herself in a completely different way, composing with MIDI instead of piano or guitar. She found herself moving through a dreamworld of whispers, synths, and early Eurovision tunes–and Cohen’s I’m Your Man and her great uncle’s gauzy Maryla Rodowicz LPs. As a result, Basia’s Palace feels like an album that was concealed behind the backings of Bulat’s childhood photos, where mystery and romance mingle over squelchy synths, drum machine, and soaring string arrangements (“My Angel”); where a quiet garden scene is built to a deafening sublime (“Laughter”); where Bulat makes a track she’s been threatening to make for years, a folk-song named for a genre of Polish dance music that was beloved by her late father (“Disco Polo”).
Throughout, Bulat pays tribute to the magic of creation and the spellwork of performance. This is the truest location of Basia’s Palace: not just the Mile End jam-space where she recorded much of this LP; not just her home, her family, or her searching spirit. But the moment itself—the one that happens on-stage, or in the instant of creation—when a song leaves Basia’s heart and leaps onto her lips.
Basia’s Palace Track List:
1. My Angel
2. Baby
3. Spirit
4. Right Now
5. Disco Polo
6. The Moon
7. Daylight
8. Laughter
9. Curtain Call
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