LEIF VOLLEBEKK’S NEW ALBUM, REVELATION, OUT SEPTEMBER 27 VIA SECRET CITY
Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Leif Vollebekk announces his brand-new album, Revelation, to be released on September 27 on Secret City Records, with the new single “Moondog”. The new release will be available in digital, CD, and LP formats, and is his third release on the Montreal-based label.
The 11 tracks on Vollebekk’s Revelation combine narrative lyrics and many one-take lead vocal performances with cinematic arrangements, gorgeous sonics, well-placed space, and lush orchestration. Vollebekk’s Revelation songwriting process was inspired by an exploration that began with Carl Jung’s I Ching and continued into the science of alchemy and the mystery of the divine. The final result is at once organic, earthy, and celestial, with themes of nature — water, astral constellations, mortality – woven into a meditation on living in an ever-changing present laced with existential doubt, the search for a higher power.
“Moondog”, the first single, offers firm proof of this juxtaposition with its “meditation on love,” fateful meetings, family, and magic, with a lyrical nod to “tessellation” (a pattern of geographic shapes covering a surface). “Was that the wind howling through the trees/Or was that you/Calling to me?” The video accompanying the song was directed by longtime collaborator Kaveh Nabatian and was filmed in Norway.
TOUR DATES
June 28 – Montreal, Canada | Maison symphonique de Montréal (Festival international de Jazz de Montréal)
July 19 – Vancouver, Canada | Vancouver Folk Music Festival
July 25 – Calgary, Canada | Calgary Folk Music Festival
October 1- Winterthur, Switzerland | Salzhaus
October 2 – Munich, Germany | Strom
October 3 – Vienna, Austria | Arena
October 5 – Berlin, Germany | Lido
October 6 – Hamburg, Germany |Knust
October 7- Tilburg, Netherlands | Poppodium 013 Next Stage
October 9 – Cologne, Germany | Gebaude 9
October 10 – Paris, France | Café de la danse
October 11 – Antwerp, Belgium | De Roma
October 12 – Amsterdam, Netherlands | Paradiso
October 14 – Brighton, UK | CHALK
October 15 – Manchester, UK | New Century Hall
October 16 – Dublin, Ireland | Button Factory
October 17 – Glasgow, UK | QMU
October 18- Bristol, UK | SWX
October 19 – London, UK | O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
October 22 – Copenhagen, Denmark | Pumpheuset
October 23 – Stockholm, Sweden | Debaser
October 24 – Oslo, Norway | Vulkan