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New Music: Celestial North – Yarrow

Celestial North is a Kendal-based dream pop artist who first hit our radar earlier in the summer through her folklore-infused track When The Gods Dance. Now she’s back with a new one steeped in nature. It’s called Yarrow. (more…)

CELESTIAL NORTH - YARROW 

Celestial North shares ‘Yarrow’ an atmospheric soundtrack rooted in nature.

Celestial North has shared ‘Yarrow’, a haunting atmospheric "botanical” soundtrack.  For fans of Nils Frahm, Olafur Arnalds or Sigur Ros, this reflective and meditative piece gently sways with a wash of pianos and sighing melodies. It’s a tantalizing other side of Celestial North’s artistry and a teaser for her album released later this year.

She says of the song:  ‘I often think in ‘music’. My thoughts are usually awash with colours and sounds. I was sitting trying to meditate, or contemplate, beside the yarrow patch in my garden. I was finding it difficult to articulate how I was feeling and started to feel a bit frustrated. I decided to sit quietly and start again. I realised that I didn’t really have any words to write down as such but I did have a tune playing in my head. 

I decided to record this tune on my piano and added some other elements that I felt benefitted the song — a bodhran drum, a choir, the rustling of the yarrow patch and the roses recorded from my garden and some simple electronic sounds.  This botanical soundscape is representative of how I felt whilst I was sitting with the yarrow and the tune played on the piano is the tune that was playing in my head whilst sitting with the plant."

It follows the success of the “wonderful space pop” (4 Songs and a dream Podcast) of  ‘When The Gods Dance’ — which received airplay and praise from the likes of Roddy Hart at BBC Radio Scotland, Jim Gellatly of Amazing Radio and various BBC Introducing Shows.  The gorgeous follow up 'The Nature of Light' which featured in Under The Radar and Snack Magazine.

Hailing from Edinburgh, Scotland Celestial North is a talented, multi-faceted musician and songwriter with her songs regularly played on the BBC Introducing show.  Her reworking of R.E.M.’s ‘Nightswimming’ - recorded for a God Is In the TV Zine charity album last year, received national radio play with BBC Scotland’s Roddy Hart proclaiming it “Majestic”. The release was included in Bandcamp’s Essential Releases with ‘Nightswimming’ chosen as the Editorial Director’s personal highpoint. 

Following a run of early singles Celestial North was touted by Under The Radar and God Is In The TV as 'One to watch in 2021' and one of the 'finest new acts for 2021', Celestial North is currently recording her debut album which will be released in October.

Celestial North - ‘When The Gods Dance’ Single 

Celestial North return with beauitful Electronic Dreampop single ‘When The Gods Dance’ released 5th of May and new album expected to drop later in September. Tribal and futuristic beats make up the core of this anthemic new offering, coupled with intensely siren-like vocals ‘When The Gods Dance’ is a fantastic sign of what to expect on the new record. 

Lake District based Scottish solo artist Celestial North marks her return with her intoxicating new single ‘When The Gods Dance’ which invites you into the heart of her fascinating wyrd-dreampop world. It’s a cosmic detour into a land of impossibility and beauty- bathed in folklore, the ancient and the unknown.

Another evolution in her artistry, the enveloping new single When The Gods Dance’ is entwined with entrancing melodies that soar over cinematic musical mountains held aloft by majestic choirs and underpinned by elemental percussion that beats straight from the primordial heart of her world.

Sewn with her beguiling vocals and a patchwork of her old and new influences, crafted of both organic and synthetic instrumentation: it paints a spell binding world- which welcomes one and all in. Described by Celestial North’s V as “Like a tug of war between euphoria and devastation– as above, so below. It’s ethereal maximalism gone Viking.”

Celestial North releases her evocative new single ‘When The Gods Dance’ on the 5th of May. The first taste of her debut album due this September.

Lake District based Scottish solo artist Celestial North marks her return with her intoxicating new single ‘When The Gods Dance’  which invites you into the heart of her fascinating wyrd-dreampop world. It’s a cosmic detour into a land of impossibility and beauty - bathed in folklore, the ancient and the unknown. 

Another evolution in her artistry, the enveloping new single ‘When The Gods Dance’ is entwined with entrancing melodies that soar over cinematic musical mountains held aloft by majestic choirs and underpinned by elemental percussion that beats straight from the primordial heart of her world.

Sewn with her beguiling vocals and a patchwork of her old and new influences, crafted of both organic and synthetic instrumentation: it paints a spell binding world- one which welcomes one and all in. Described by Celestial North’s V as “Like a tug of war between euphoria and devastation – as above, so below. It’s ethereal maximalism gone viking”.  ‘When The Gods Dance’ is the first in a series of Bandcamp Friday singles leading up to the release of her debut album this Autumn.

Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, Celestial North can be found wandering south of the border in Kendal where she now lives with her family, surrounded by fells and the beauty of nature. Her Scottish roots are anchored in her music and her love of wilderness, mystery and the spirit of the Beltane is evident in her songs. Having taught herself various instruments, with the encouragement of a Bowie and Flamenco loving father, she became interested in experimenting with different recording techniques and more unusual and primitive instruments. Hours and hours were spent with her husband, co-producer and chief drummer Woody, recording blocks of ice being hit, or chains being banged inside buckets, or storms passing over their old stone house on the hill. A dulcimer, a Bodhran drum and a piano were gifted to them during lockdown which had a huge impact on the sounds being created at home.  

Celestial North is a talented, multi-faceted musician and songwriter with her songs regularly played on the BBC Introducing show.  Her most recent release, a reworking of R.E.M.’s ‘Nightswimming’ - recorded for a God Is In the TV Zine charity album last year, received national radio play with BBC Scotland’s Roddy Hart proclaiming it “Majestic”. The release was included in Bandcamp’s Essential Releases with ‘Nightswimming’ chosen as the Editorial Director’s personal highpoint. Following a run of early singles Celestial North was touted by Under The Radar and God Is In The TV as 'One to watch in 2021' and one of the 'finest new acts for 2021', Celestial North is currently recording her debut album which will be released in September 2022. You can see her live at Kendal Calling Festival.

‘GodIsInTheTV' - “Enveloping and wondrous. Swelling and spiralling gaze pop that’s punctured by big hearted vocals and soaring melodies. Superb riffing, brisk percussive elements featuring Woody from Sea Power on drums and epic choruses laced with a bittersweet quality of the hope and pain of living. Wonderful stuff!”

Under The Radar - “Celestial North has been making some of the most luscious, ethereal sounds over the past couple of years. "Distant Life" is a shimmering masterclass in elegant dream pop”.

Website     https://www.celestialnorth.co.uk/

Email         [email protected]

Bandcamp     https://celestialnorth.bandcamp.com/

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