New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Montreal singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Leif Vollebekk has unveiled the second song from his forthcoming album 'Twin Solitude' (Feb 24/Secret City Records) today via The Fader. Listen to "Into The Ether" here: https://www.thefader.com/2017/01/12/leif-vollebek-into-the-ether-chargaux-premiere
'Twin Solitude' was born out of recalibration; Leif changing his approach to songwriting and exploring musical ideas that came to him spontaneously. Many of the songs on the album were written in one sitting, including the breathtaking "Into The Ether" which came to be whilst playing piano. The Fader highlights "Into The Ether" for its "passionate Broken Social Scene-adjacent melodies wrapped in a casual, jammy atmosphere."
The premiere of "Into The Ether" follows a glowing write-up from NPR Songs We Love for his song "Elegy," calling it "devastatingly beautiful." Brooklyn Vegan followed with a premiere of the video, which was shot on a Florida beach at dusk with a steady cam that follows Leif dancing into the ocean. "
Elegy" has been streamed over 800,000 times and debuted in the Top 15 on Spotify's UK Viral 50 chart.
Today Leif will perform via live stream via Paste Magazine at 11:45AM ET, and tomorrow via World Café's Free At Noon series at Noon ET. Go here: https://www.facebook.com/PasteMagazine and here https://www.vuhaus.com/live to watch.
Leif is WXPN's Artist To Watch for January and World Café featured two of his songs as part of their Next series in December. His international tour will start February 28 at NYC's Mercury Lounge. Vollebekk has added three North American dates for April 2017, with more to be announced soon.
Leif released his break-through sophomore album 'North Americana' in 2013, and since then has performed at the Newport Folk Festival and shared stages with
Daniel Lanois, Beth Orton, Sinéad O'Connor, Patrick Watson, Coeur de Pirate,
William Fitzsimmons and Sam Amidon. His 2010 debut 'Inland' was described as "beautiful, memorable and moving" by NPR and "timeless and monumental" by the Independent UK.
Preorder "Twin Solitude" or listen/download "
Elegy":
https://smarturl.it/TwinS_All
Watch the "
Elegy" video:
https://youtu.be/SqGxIbN-DFY
Tour Dates:
2/28/17 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
3/2/17 - Montreal, QC @ La Tulipe
3/5/17 - Oslo, Norway @ John Dee *
3/6/17 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Debaser Strand *
3/7/17 - Gothenburg, Sweden @ Pustervik *
3/8/17 - Aarhus, Denmark @
Atlas *
3/9/17 - Copenhagen, Denmark @ VEGA *
3/11/17 - Hamburg, Germany @ Uebel & Gefaehrlich *
3/12/17 - Berlin, Germany @ Lido *
3/13/17 - Prague, Czech Republic @ LaLoca *
3/14/17 - Vienna, Austria @
Arena *
3/16/17 - Milan, Italy @
Magnolia *
3/17/17 - Zurich, Switzerland @ Bogen F *
3/19/17 - Munich, Germany @ Strom *
3/20/17 - Cologne, Germany @ Kulturkirche *
3/21/17 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso *
3/22/17 - Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix Bar *
3/23/17 - Paris, France @ Le Pop Up *
3/25/17 - Brighton, UK @ The Haunt *
3/26/17 - Bristol, UK @ Thekla *
3/27/17 - Nottingham, UK @ Bodega *
3/28/17 - Glasgow, Scotland @ King Tut's *
3/29/17 - Edinburgh, Scotland @ Mash House *
3/31/17 - Belfast, Ireland @ Voodoo *
4/1/17 - Dublin, Ireland @ Academy 2 *
4/2/17 - Manchester, UK @ Deaf
Institute *
4/3/17 - London, UK @ Islington Assembly Hall *
4/13/17 - Quebec City, QC @ Le Cercle
4/14/17 - Ottawa, ON @ First Baptist
4/21/17 - Philadelphia, PA @ World Café Live Upstairs
* With Gregory Alan Isakov
'Twin Solitude' track listing:
Vancouver Time
All Night Sedans
Elegy
Into the Ether
Big Sky Country
Michigan
Road to Venus
East of Eden
Rest
