Singer-songwriter Billie Zizi of Edmonton, Alberta, is unveiling her long awaited new record, Levitate, out October 25th. The collection of dreamy songs which range from earnest folk rock to eerie singer-songwriter capture the artist’s experience navigating life through her tight knit community in her hometown.
Zizi herself explains: “From the gas station love affairs of pitbull-walking, rhinestone adorned Edmontonians to the spiritual levity of transcendence, this album is a glimpse into my strange mind and the life I’ve lived. Loss, radiant love, transience, delirium and indefatigable hope are some of the themes. I dreamed this record into being over many years. It’s a love letter to Edmonton, to delighting in the simple things like hot dogs and friendship and the prairie sky and the absurdity of it all. To all the Dirt City angels, the big dreamers, the lovers, and the dancers, this is for you: I hope you like it.”
The album includes focus track, the invigorating and tenderhearted “Midnight Sun,” which was borne out of a writing prompt to reference a natural phenomenon.
Zizi ran with the concept of the midnight sun, one where we are “soaked in a manic 24 hour sun,” and in turn the “gardens of our love would proliferate wildly and we would be intoxicated by the honeyed light.” Yet inevitably, the winter would come and with it the love would wither and die.
Stream Levitate and/or “Midnight Sun” here : https://music.billiezizi.com/levitateLP
Co-produced with album collaborator Austin Parachoniak, “Midnight Sun” has an inherent groove to it with an arrangement meant to translate perfectly to a live setting, gradually deepening in intensity and heart as Zizi’s vocals and guitar lines grow around each other.