The Toronto musician ZOON (Zoongide’ewin) dropped the music video for Manitou.
The second single is taken from the upcoming second album called Bekka Ma’iingan which comes out on April 28, 2023 via Paper Bag Records.
A sweeping emotional orchestral rock tune.
About the track by Daniel:
Mantiou is both a callback to Monkman’s first project and a new beginning.
Though not a shoegaze song by definition, the music’s funereal orchestra and Monkman’s vocals, which seem to come forth from the strings like sea foam from a tidal pool, all work to swath you in a similar way to Bleached Wavves. It’s one of the most threadbare and devastating pieces of music that Monkman has released yet.”
“‘Manitou’ is about the group of friends I had growing up in Selkirk Manitoba,” wrote Monkman.
“We’d run a cross the red bridge and have fires and drink. Our little piece of heaven, until some cops would come and ruin our fun. Running from them was fun though. It was some of the best times of my life. I did notice a very sad element to the whole thing afterwards.
Everything was just so normal at the time, I didn’t have anything to really base it off of, but I know now a lot of us were struggling with mental health issues and not properly taken care of, but we took care of each other and some of us got lost along the way, some passed on, I will always remember.
‘Manitou’ is that feeling I get when I reflect back to those times. I wanted to write music for a film that would never be made.”
Manitou gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
ZOON – Manitou [Music Video]
