SNOWBLINK REVEALS NEW VIDEO, ADD MORE PERFORMANCE DATES

WATCH AND SHARE “EXOTIC BIRD” HERE

PERFORMANCE DATES BEGIN ON FEBRUARY 14

RETURNING CURRENT NOW AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC

“possibly the best thing they have ever released. It’s hot. It’s not yet quite dark.” 
- The Globe And Mail

“Subversive, sinister and sly, Daniela Gesundheit's voice is a full moon, “luminous and bright, bringing light and clarity to lyrics cloaked in shadows” - CBC Music

“a blissful ride … On Returning Current, Snowblink return to their lush ways
and beg you to dive in” - Exclaim!

“sees Snowblink straining its airy melodies through an '80s-esque, Europop sieve of sound. The result? A bigger, dance-ier record that swirls like waves” - The Coast

“Gesundheit's pure voice floats and soars effortlessly over a soundscape featuring subtle and imaginative touches. …mesmerizing” - FYI Music

Photo Credit : Bob O’Sullivan // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Today, Snowblink are sharing the new video for “Exotic Bird” from their latest album Returning Current. Filmed in Los Angeles with director Dawn Garcia (Destroyer’s “Kaputt”) and styled by Christina Marie-Karr Lyon, the song “began as a repository for an unrealizable crush, a place for those difficult and irresolvable feelings to live,” says Daniela Gesundheit. “It has since taken on a different meaning for me as I have performed it and re-worked the song for various contexts. I now think of the Exotic Bird as a sort of avatar for deep longing - that deep longing starts to take the form of brilliant iridescent feathers, a proud, unexpected beak, an unforeseen wingspan, a wild call, and it comes and perches on one's shoulder as a co-pilot towards the expansive unknown.”

WATCH AND SHARE “EXOTIC BIRD” HERE

Returning Current, is an unflinching study of human relationships – to self, to other, and to Other, and to the threat or actuality of losing those unrepeatable prizes. The duo of Daniela Gesundheit and Dan Goldman were joined in studio for the creation of Returning Current was co-producer Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Bahamas), and a cast of acclaimed musicians including Leslie Feist, Owen Pallett, Barbara Gruska (Fiona Apple, Jenny Lewis, Ray LaMontagne), Johnny Spence (Tegan and Sara), Thom Gill, Ariel Engle (AroarA), Steven Foster (Doldrums), Felicity Williams (Bahamas), Philipe Melanson (Rufus Wainwright), Mika Posen (Timber Timbre), and many others.

PERFORMANCE DATES
Feb 14 - Palm Springs, CA - Ace Hotel (Olfactory Show)
Feb 17 - Palm Springs, CA - Ace Hotel
Feb 22 - Toronto, ON - Gladstone Ballroom
Mar 2 - San Francisco, CA - Cult Gallery
Apr 21 - London, UK - The Tabernacle (Olfactory Awards)

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SNOWBLINK SHARES NEW VIRTUAL REALITY VIDEO

WATCH AND SHARE “FEEL LIKE A MAN” VIRTUAL REALITY VIDEO HERE

RETURNING CURRENT NOW AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC

SNOWBLINK UNVEIL NEW VIRTUAL REALITY VIDEO FOR FEEL LIKE A MAN

“possibly the best thing they have ever released. It’s hot. It’s not yet quite dark.” - The Globe And Mail

“Subversive, sinister and sly, Daniela Gesundheit's voice is a full moon, “luminous and bright, bringing light and clarity to lyrics cloaked in shadows” - CBC Music

“a blissful ride … On Returning Current, Snowblink return to their lush ways and beg you to dive in” - Exclaim!

“sees Snowblink straining its airy melodies through an '80s-esque, Europop sieve of sound. The result? A bigger, dance-ier record that swirls like waves” - The Coast

“Gesundheit's pure voice floats and soars effortlessly over a soundscape featuring subtle and imaginative touches. …mesmerizing” - FYI Music

Photo Credit : Bob O’Sullivan // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Snowblink released their album Returning Current last September in Canada and now the rest of the world will be able to hear what Exclaim! calls “a blissful ride, sounds as the world does when you’re underwater: soft and calm”.

The new virtual reality video for “Feel Like A Man” sees its screen debut in Marfa, TX today at the Marfa Myths Festival where Snowblink will be performing along with Perfume Genius, Roky Erickson, Weyes Blood and more. The video, directed by Sam Fleischner, was made during the US election week in Brooklyn with a crew of around 30 people - 90% of whom were women. When the video was made “It was a week of hate crimes and fear, where women had to stomach a misogynist taking his seat as the president elect,” says Snowblink’s Daniela Gesundheit. “Many of the women on the set were heartbroken, afraid, angry. We came together with a common purpose and created a ritual – a surrealist futuristic virtual reality seance wherein twelve dancers undergo a deep transformation over the course of a dinner banquet. With the camera positioned at the center of the banquet table, the viewer stands surrounded by these women, often encountering intense or compassionate eye contact. The piece is intimate and gives the viewer a sense of being a part of something private and transformative.”

WATCH AND SHARE “FEEL LIKE A MAN” VIRTUAL REALITY VIDEO HERE

Gesundheit described the impetus for her song “Feel Like A Man” to Kurt Anderson on WNYC’s Studio 360 when the band visited last year: “It was a response to a sense of masculinity burnout – an exhaustion from years of being a woman ‘in drag’ energetically, putting on an armor of masculine energy in order to succeed.” It brings to mind Sen. Elizabeth Warren's recent actions on the Senate floor, or the current zeitgeist of women and men confronting and dismantling patriarchal systems. Many people feel poised to construct and embrace new models, but it takes an otherworldly resilience to get through this current state of the old systems crumbling, often violently. “Feel Like A Man” is an anthem for this moment - a moment of staring down violence without blinking, while maintaining the pliability, empathy, and dignity necessary to move in an uncharted direction.

Returning Current, is an unflinching study of human relationships – to self, to other, and to Other, and to the threat or actuality of losing those unrepeatable prizes. The lead single “How Now” featuring backing vocals from Feist, earned airplay across Canada and was accompanied by a spellbinding video directed by multi-award winning Scott Cudmore.

WATCH AND SHARE “HOW NOW” HERE

The duo of Daniela Gesundheit and Dan Goldman were joined in studio for the creation of Returning Current was co-producer Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Bahamas), and a cast of acclaimed musicians including Leslie Feist, Owen Pallett, Barbara Gruska (Fiona Apple, Jenny Lewis, Ray LaMontagne), Johnny Spence (Tegan and Sara), Thom Gill, Ariel Engle (AroarA), Steven Foster (Doldrums), Felicity Williams (Bahamas), Philipe Melanson (Rufus Wainwright), Mika Posen (Timber Timbre), and many others.

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SNOWBLINK CELEBRATES RELEASE DAY WITH NEW VIDEO FOR “HOW NOW”

TORONTO / LOS ANGELES BAND REVEAL NEW VIDEO FOR ALBUM SINGLE “HOW NOW”

NEW ALBUM, RETURNING CURRENT, OUT TODAY VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC

WATCH AND SHARE “HOW NOW” HERE VIA EXCLAIM!

WATCH SNOWBLINK PERFORM ON CBC q HERE

TOUR DATES BEGIN THIS WEEK

“possibly the best thing they have ever released. It’s hot. It’s not yet quite dark.” 
- The Globe And Mail

“Subversive, sinister and sly, Daniela Gesundheit's voice is a full moon, “luminous and bright, bringing light and clarity to lyrics cloaked in shadows” - CBC Music

“a blissful ride … On Returning Current, Snowblink return to their lush ways and
beg you to dive in” - Exclaim!

“sees Snowblink straining its airy melodies through an '80s-esque, Europop sieve of sound. The result? A bigger, dance-ier record that swirls like waves” - The Coast

“Gesundheit's pure voice floats and soars effortlessly over a soundscape featuring subtle and imaginative touches. …mesmerizing” - FYI Music

PHOTO CREDIT : JOEL GIBB

Today, Toronto / Los Angeles duo Snowblink celebrate the release of their latest album, Returning Current, by sharing the new video for album single “How Now” courtesy of Exclaim!. Directed by Scott Cudmore, Snowblink says of the video, “we feel new feelings and we immediately want to know, will this last? Do we get to keep it? The answer is, of course, always (eventually) no, but that tension of trying to hold on, that inevitable dissolution and breakdown of even the deepest bonds... Scott captured it beautifully in this video.”

WATCH AND SHARE “HOW NOW” HERE VIA EXCLAIM!

WATCH SNOWBLINK PERFORM ON CBC q HERE

Out today via Outside Music, Snowblink’s newest collection of songs, Returning Current, is an unflinching study of human relationships – to self, to other, and to Other, and to the threat or actuality of losing those unrepeatable prizes. The duo of Daniela Gesundheit and Dan Goldman began the recording process with a text based ‘mood board’ developed by Gesundheit to portray the sensations she wished to evoke in the production of the album. The musicians, producers, and engineers were faced with the task of sonically approximating themes of santa fe / arizona / palm springs / calypso disco / lots of space with bursts or ripples of sound.

Practically, this ambition meant that the band approached each song uniquely – here a full band live off the floor in a winter cabin, there a painstaking half-year-long process of revision, here a drum sample from years ago mixed with dozens of layers of analog synths and vocals. In sculpting the singular sound of Returning Current, no process was out of bounds – the band made themselves equally at home with a bevy of acoustic instruments, analog processes, or sample-based in-the-box production choices.

Joining Snowblink in studio for the creation of Returning Current was co-producer Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Bahamas), and a cast of acclaimed musicians including Leslie Feist, Owen Pallett, Barbara Gruska (Fiona Apple, Jenny Lewis, Ray LaMontagne), Johnny Spence (Tegan and Sara), Thom Gill, Ariel Engle (AroarA), Steven Foster (Doldrums), Felicity Williams (Bahamas), Philipe Melanson (Rufus Wainwright), Mika Posen (Timber Timbre), and many others.

What results is “mastery at its liquidiest” claimed Feist in a personal letter to the band. A collection of songs that find the speaker reporting, in the stark, James Blake-esque ballad “Second Sight”, that “the sky was kneeling on my back to pray,” or elucidating the slipperiness of desire, as in Returning Current. These are private songs, domestic songs, songs to be absorbed over time – unhurried, biological time, the passage of which helps us to survive ourselves.

Snowblink is sensual, not sterile, elegantly imperfect, Wabi Sabi. Gesundheit’s empathic, mesmeric lyrics, when coupled with Goldman’s patient and narcotic arranging and production style, establish a genuine intimacy without telling us what to feel.

Looking to the emotional intelligence of heavyweights like Nina Simone, PJ Harvey, or Violeta Parra, or poets Anne Carson and Fanny Howe, while adhering to the optimistic and playful presentation of ’80’s French pop duo Elie & Jacno, Snowblink manages a courageous strangeness, otherness, an optimal mismatch.

RETURNING CURRENT TRACKLIST

dayside
How Now  
Exotic Bird
Cyclone
Feel Like a Man
Returning Current

nightside

Foothills
Second Sight
Cobalt Clear
Torn to Light
Wild Here

SNOWBLINK TOUR DATES

9/9 - The Capital, Fredericton
9/10 - Buoy Gallery, Portsmouth
9/11 - Trans Pico, Brooklyn
9/15 - Casa Del Popolo, Montreal
9/16 - Pressed, Ottawa
9/17 - Sandbanks Festival, Picton
9/18 - Park Theatre, Winnipeg
9/19 - Bassment, Saskatoon
9/21 -  Broken City, Calgary
9/22 - The Flying Steam Shovel, Rossland
9/23 - China Cloud, Vancouver
9/26 - Hungry Brain, Chicago
9/27 - Rock Island, Illinois, TBD
10/01 - Quixotic Sounds (in-store), Toronto
10/5 - Starlight, Waterloo
10/7 - The Garnett, Peterborough
10/8 - Burdock, Toronto
10/9 - Burdock, Toronto

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