Basia Bulat – The Garden [Streaming]

Today the amazing Basia Bulat dropped the lovely and beautiful album called The Garden via Secret City Records.
While some will call it a “greatest hits” where you cut and paste or favourite tracks from her repertoire of 5 albums into one.
This is a reimagine and different take to a classical string quartet arrangements by Owen Pallett, Paul Frith, and Zou Zou Robidoux.
The Garden has more an emotional sound feel when the folk pop aspect is taken away and more of classical vibe and a sound journey.
It is one those albums that drifts you into a warm and sunny dream-like garden.

About the album:
The Garden fits within a storied history of artists revisiting their songs over time and for Bulat, the album was a chance to record anew select songs whose meanings have shifted from when she originally composed them.

Distance teaches, and reveals: “I sing the songs differently now,” she says. “It’s the gift of time.”
While creating The Garden, Bulat had just found out she was expecting her first child, which she revealed to her collaborators in the midst of recording, down a wire from the vocal booth.
A song can change shape, turning new leaves and growing new blooms, in life’s unexpected seasons.

While she has been known to play live with small chamber ensembles and full orchestras–including the Ottawa National Arts Centre Orchestra and Symphony Nova Scotia–The Garden marks Bulat’s first recording to capture this spellbinding configuration.

Across the 16 songs, produced by herself and Mark Lawson (Arcade Fire, Beirut), she gives a new life to beloved originals alongside a handpicked group of string players (violinists John Corban and Tomo Newton, violist Jen Thiessen, harpist Sarah Page, along with Robidoux on cello), as well as bandmates Andrew Woods and Ben Whiteley on guitar and bass, respectively.


The Garden gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.

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