Quebec-hailing composer Alexandra Stréliski has announced plans for her follow-up to 2018's Inscape — a new album called Néo-Romance. It's due March 31 via Secret City Records / XXIM Records, and today, you can hear its second single "Élégie."
Mainly written in Rotterdam, the record is said to find Stréliski distancing herself from the neo-classical movement and pondering Romanticism's "super dark" relationship to nature and "what it all meant in this modern world we've created."
She elaborated in a statement: "The ancient past, freedom from rules, devotion to beauty, these big romantic themes, but really expressed in a post-modern way. How do you remain in that imaginary world in these disillusioned, scary times we're living through? That was the premise and setting for the album."
Stréliski continued: "I'm much more of a romantic in the sense that I express my own inner world to make sense of the wider world. So, the thread I'm pulling on here is the idea of neo-romance, in a musical way but also as a form of contemplation."
In addition to sharing details of her forthcoming album, Stréliski has also scheduled a three-day run at Joliette, QC's Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay. She will perform there from August 24–26.
Watch a Laurence Baz Morais-directed music video for "Élégie" below, where you'll also find the album's tracklisting.
Néo-Romance:
1. Ad Libre
2. Lumières
3. the first kiss
4. Dans les bois
5. Air de famille
6. Rêveries
7. In the air
8. The hills
9. one last dance
10. (ouverture)
11. The Breach
12. Élégie
13. BORDERS
14. a new romance
Mainly written in Rotterdam, the record is said to find Stréliski distancing herself from the neo-classical movement and pondering Romanticism's "super dark" relationship to nature and "what it all meant in this modern world we've created."
She elaborated in a statement: "The ancient past, freedom from rules, devotion to beauty, these big romantic themes, but really expressed in a post-modern way. How do you remain in that imaginary world in these disillusioned, scary times we're living through? That was the premise and setting for the album."
Stréliski continued: "I'm much more of a romantic in the sense that I express my own inner world to make sense of the wider world. So, the thread I'm pulling on here is the idea of neo-romance, in a musical way but also as a form of contemplation."
In addition to sharing details of her forthcoming album, Stréliski has also scheduled a three-day run at Joliette, QC's Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay. She will perform there from August 24–26.
Watch a Laurence Baz Morais-directed music video for "Élégie" below, where you'll also find the album's tracklisting.
Néo-Romance:
1. Ad Libre
2. Lumières
3. the first kiss
4. Dans les bois
5. Air de famille
6. Rêveries
7. In the air
8. The hills
9. one last dance
10. (ouverture)
11. The Breach
12. Élégie
13. BORDERS
14. a new romance