The Los Angeles composer’s new album, Aviary, is slated for release October 26th via Domino. Along with the announcement she is premiering her new song “I Shall Love You” and its accompanying video directed by Dicky Bahto. The video opens with Holter repeatedly standing and then falling to the floor and features the lyrics, “I am in love….There is nothing else.” Check it out below.
Aviary is the follow up to her 2015 record, Have You in My Wilderness, and was inspired by a line from a 2009 short story by writer Etel Adnan: “I found myself in and aviary full of shrieking birds.”
“Amidst all the internal and external babble, we experience daily, it’s hard to find one’s foundation,” says Holter. “I think this album is reflecting that feeling of cacophony and how one responds to it as a person – how one behaves, how one looks for love, for solace. Maybe it’s a matter of listening to and gathering the seeming madness, of forming something out of it and envisioning a future.”
Holter continues, “In a lot of the songs, when I mention love, it’s about a seeking for compassion and humility in a world where it feels like empathy is always being tested.”
Musicians that joined Holter on Aviary include Corey Fogel (percussion), Devin Hoff (bass), Dina Maccabee (violin, viola, vocals), Sarah Belle Reid (trumpet), Andrew Tholl (violin) and Tashi Wada (synth, bagpipes).
Last spring Holter turned her 2011 album, Tragedy, into play in which she performed. She also wrote the score for the 2016 film Bleed For This, about former boxer Vinny Pazienza.
Aviary Track List
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1. Turn The Light On
2. Whether
3. Chaitius
4. Voce Simul
5. Everyday Is An Emergency
6. Anther Dream
7. I Shall Love 2
8. Underneath The Moon
9. Colligere
10. In Gardens’ Muteness
11. I Would Rather See
12. Les Jeux To You
13. Words I Heard
14. I Shall Love 1
15. Why Sad Song
Upcoming Live Dates
10/14 Lake Perris, CA @ Desert Daze Festival
11/24 Leeuwarden @ Explore The North Festival
11/26 Amsterdam @ Paradiso Noord
11/27 Bochum, Germany @ Schauspiel
11/28 Antwerp @ De Roma
11/30 Berlin @ Funkhaus
12/1 Hamburg @ Elbphilharmonie
12/2 Frankfurt @ Brotfabrik
12/3 Munich @ Kammerspiele
12/5 Paris @ Petit Bain
12/6 Manchester @ Gorilla
12/7 Bristol @ Fiddlers
12/8 Dublin @ Button Factory
12/10 Edinburgh @ Summerhall
12/11 Leeds @ Howard Assembly Rooms
12/12 London @ Hackney Arts Centre
2019
2/19 Washington DC @ U Street Music Hall
2/20 Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
2/22 New York @ Warsaw
2/23 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
2/24 Montreal @ La Sala Rossa
2/26 Toronto @ The Great Hall
2/27 Detroit, MI @ El Club
2/28 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
3/1 St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
3/4 Vancouver, @ Imperial
3/5 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
3/6 Seattle, WA @ Neumos
3/8 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
3/9 Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
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