Helena Deland – Goodnight Summerland
Today the acclaimed Montreal-based songwriter and musician Helena Deland releases her second album Goodnight Summerland on Montreal independent label Chivi Chivi. A beautiful, tender collection of folk songs meditating on the joys of life, the questions we face as we grow older, the agonies and ecstasies of love, and the abject sorrow of loss and grief.
To further celebrate the release of Goodnight Summerland, Helena Deland has released a stunning video for new single “The Animals.” In keeping with this soaring, torch song’s callout to an estranged lover, the atmospheric, nocturnal video depicts water droplets traveling through unsettled, burnished landscapes and moody, inky black skies.
Helena Deland is interested in how songs can hold what eludes everyday language. Her music draws on reading and walking around. Goodnight Summerland was recorded with Sam Evian at Flying Cloud Recordings in the Catskill mountains. It was engineered by Sam, co-produced by Helena and Sam, and mastered by Heba Kadry (Bjork, Beach House, Slowdive). Deland’s new songs have simpler musical arrangements than 2020’s debut Someone New, focusing on the sheer joy and transformative power of a good song.
Helena Deland – Headline Tour Dates:
11/02/2023 – Vancouver – Fox Cabaret
11/03/2023 – Seattle – Madame Lou’s
11/04/2023 – Portland – Mississippi Studios
11/06/2023 – San Francisco – Cafe du Nord
11/07/2023 – Los Angeles – Lodge Room
11/08/2023 – San Diego – Casbah
11/09/2023 – Phoenix – Valley Bar
11/11/2023 – Denver – Lost Lake
11/13/2023 – Minneapolis – 7th st
11/14/2023 – Chicago – Lincoln Hall
11/15/2023 – Detroit – El club
11/16/2023 – Toronto – Horseshoe
11/18/2023 – Brooklyn – Music Hall of Williamsburg
11/19/2023 – DC – Songbyrd
11/24/2023 – Montréal – La Tulipe
11/25/2023 – Québec – Le Pantoum
02/13/2024 – Baden – One Of A Million Festival
02/14/2024 – Munich – Milla
02/15/2024 – Berlin – Privatclub
02/16/2024 – Amsterdam – Paradiso Upstairs
02/17/2024 – Paris – Pop Up Du Label
02/19/2024 – Brussels – Botanique
02/21/2024 – London – The Lexington
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