Tag: The Fool

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New Video: Norway’s Y is Nature Shares Unsettling Yet Gorgeous “The Fool”

Hjalmar Littauer is an Oslo-based songwriter and producer, whose career started in earnest with the Danish DIY project ISRA. 2018’s Sun Solace EP was his first bit of recorded output with the band. Littauer stepped out into spotlight with his solo, indie psych project Y is Nature.

Inspired by the spy thriller film genre and today’s geopolitical hybrid warfare, Littauer through Y is Nature explores themes of evasion, secrecy and suspicion paired with ambiguous soundscapes that reflects anxiety and courage.

Littauer’s Y is Nature full-length debut, Evasion is slated for release next month. The album’s latest single, the Hjalmar Littauer, Simon Littauer and Martin Solli co-produced “The Fool” features Tuva Svendsen Hesmyr‘s expressive and gorgeous vocal ethereally floating over a lush and dreamy production featuring dense layers of glistening synths, skittering and pulsing beats. The result is a song that’s tense yet languorous, elegant and downright dreamy.

Littauer and Svendsen Hesmyr explain that “the track navigates the unsettling interplay between the fear of losing someone you love and the desperate need for control.”

Directed and filmed by Greg Pope and based on a screenplay written by Littauer and Svendsen Hesmyr, the video stars Svendesn Hesmyr in an unsettling fever dream that follows the Norwegian artist wandering the woods and in a bare, all-white room, appearing as though she were being interrogated.

Video by William Ruben Helms

New Video: Introducing Toronto’s Ass-kicking, Hard Rocking SATE

SATE is a Toronto-based singer/songwriter and rock frontperson, who sings empowering messages backed by a band that meshes blistering hard rock and gritty blues. The Canadian artist and her backing band have developed and honed an emotionally charged and critically applauded live show, which has led to tours across Canada, the States and Europe, and festival appearances at Afropunk Brooklyn, Paris and London, Paleo Festival, Lott Festival and Secret Garden Party.

Her full-length debut, 2017’s Red, Black, and Blue, the Toronto-based artist thematically pursued her spiritual connection to the black panther, the red robin and the blue butterfly. With her recently released sophomore album, The Fool, the rising Canadian artist pursues her connection to the tarot — with the album’s title derived from the hero of the tarot deck, The Fool. In tarot, The Fool card is about beginnings and trust; of essentially jumping off a cliff with no real plan but an ultimate faith and trust in the universe.

According to SATE, The Fool is an anthem for anyone who has dared to dream and work towards their greatest self. Album title track “The Fool,” is a slow-burning synthesis of soul, neo-soul and power chord-based arena rock centered around SATE’s powerhouse vocals.

Earlier this year, the Toronto-based artist released a gorgeously shot, short film, which features “The Fool,” as well as a sampling of other material from the album — and from what you’ll hear, SATE is a badass, kick ass and take names sort of superstar in the making. And goodness that voice! The video is centered around themes tackled on the album, while showing the Toronto-based artist railing against stereotypes of all sorts, along with a collection of women who kick ass.