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Electro-Pop’s Poet of Pain: Me & Melancholy Releases ‘Tears In The Rain’

‘Tears In The Rain’  by  Me & Melancholy Whenever there’s a new release from Me & Melancholy , it fills us with anticipation. This time, the artist paints a compelling portrait of human vulnerability and the complexity of interpersonal relationships.  ‘Tears In The Rain’ succeeds in capturing the essence of ephemeral beauty and the pain of the inevitable, expressing it through music. The dynamics of estrangement, articulated in the lines ‘I’m not able to reach you ’ and ‘ the more I try, the further I push you away ’, reflect a tragic irony. It feels like a dance of approach and withdrawal, prompting listeners to contemplate the paradoxes that often occur in our most intimate relationships.  The artist’s signature melancholic tone conveys a plea for acceptance and an attempt to bridge the gap created by misunderstandings and hurt feelings. Musically, Peter Ehrling navigates familiar territory, once again leveraging it to his advantage by capturing the emotional depth.   ‘Tears

She followed her heart: "Maison Vent (Album)" by Willows

Willows

"Maison Vent (Album)" by Willows

Geneviève Toupin revealed herself in 2014 through an alias: Willows. In a delicate folk blend of acoustic instruments and vocal harmonies sounding as good in French as in English, the singer-songwriter creates an authentic body of work. The album Willow (2014) and the EP The Hills (2021), the latter produced by Joseph Marchand (Pierre Lapointe, Safia Nolin), are evocative testimonies.
Willows, Singer & songwriter
Alongside her solo career, Geneviève is active as a composer and musician for other projects. She is a founding member of the electro-pop group CHANCES, with whom she recently had the opportunity to perform with in the multidisciplinary music and circus show Après la nuit for the Montreal complèment cirque Festival. She is a singer in Danse Lhasa Danse as well as in Jorane’s project Hemenetset. She also co-composed the score to Marie-France Guerrette’s documentary Unmothered for the National Film Board.

Willows, Maison Vent
Throughout the album, Willows weaves in elements of identity, talking about the tug of war between two languages, two provinces, and what it is to be a Red River Métis woman of Franco-Manitoban origin and now an adopted Quebecer. 
In my songs, you feel the connection to the territory. They evoke the wind, the earth, the lakes, the rivers, the wide open spaces and the road. I follow my heart, which takes me on a 2000 kilometer round trip from East to West,” explains Willows, who sings mainly in French, while adding a little English and Métchif-Français, the ancestral language of the Métis Nation.





Photo credits: Lucille Parry-Canet


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