DANA SIPOS FOLLOWS UP RECENT SINGLE, “SOFT FEELING”, WITH “STAR CITY”, FROM UPCOMING RELEASE
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Earlier this year Dana Sipos released “Soft Feeling”, her first new music since 2021's The Astral Plane LP. Today, on CBC Q, Sipos and guest host Garvia Bailey discussed the track and more, listen to their conversation HERE.
Today, Sipos also shares another new single, “Star City”, the second offering from a new collection of captivatingly nuanced songs from Sipos that hold the complexity of the human experience up to the light.
“Star City” lives “right at the threshold where worlds meet… the sweet spots between tide and moon, known and mystery, reality and realism, emotional weight and freedom, dreamer and dreaming,” says Sipos. “It explores how the aliveness and cacophony of the natural world remains a steady companion through it all.
“I wrote this song at an Arts residency in southwestern Washington state called Sou'wester Lodge. It was a beautiful, inspiring residency and the nature there had a remarkable presence that was creeping along the perimeter about to swallow the place whole. There were some cultural differences being in America that almost made me feel like I was in a different universe despite being only about 4 hours from home on the same coastline. I was there hoping to work in quiet and solitude and found that the natural world there had other plans for me with its incredible surround soundscape. At some point I totally surrendered to it and fused with the peepers, king tide and the many legged creatures settling on the beach. The song came alive from this place of wonder, gratitude and a bit of absurdity.”
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MORE ABOUT DANA SIPOS
Sipos' cosmic folk songs are constellations - glowing in the vast landscape, mapping the liminal spaces between memory and myth. “Soft Feeling” is a song written as "a love song for a special group of friends who have been getting together very intentionally for the past year or so and peeling back all the layers of our lifetimes," says Sipos. "With the beauty, heartbreak, love, pain and transformation, we related to each other in these ancient ways of being and tended to our younger selves in the process. I was inspired to celebrate the shape of love we cultivated with what became this song."
LISTEN / SHARE “SOFT FEELING” HERE
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A consummate performer, Sipos has brought her earthen songs, rich spiralling vocals, and textured instrumentation to living rooms, concert halls and festival stages across North America, Europe, the UK, Australia and New Zealand.