Montreal Singer-Songwriter Helena Deland Provides A Serene Listening Experience With New Single “Swimmer”

Montreal-based singer-songwriter Helena Deland has shared her new single “Swimmer”. Following her 2020 acclaimed album Someone New, “Swimmer” is a delicate and serene song that is dedicated to her mother who sadly passed away last year.

Adding to its reflective and meditative style, the accompanying visual is a collection of footage of the St. Lawrence River, viewed via helicopter. The slow water and natural beauty of the surroundings adds to Helena’s poetic ode.

About the song, Helena shares some insight along with an excerpt from a Mary Oliver poem:

“A little while after finding out that my mother was sick and that our days together were numbered, I went through a fundamental change, faced as I was with the need to reconsider things I had taken for granted. Growing older with her was now an impossible scenario, but I was being offered a suspension, some time to understand and try to change patterns that had been detrimental to our relationship, and to love her how I wished for her to be loved.

I feel that we are in a similar predicament with the world, faced with the climate crisis.

Some losses are too big to wrap our minds around. Here, I am on the beach, watching my mother swim, faced with the immensity of the ocean, of our fragility, riding the troughs of magical thinking and crests of acceptance.” 

“How detailed and hopeful,

how exact

everything is in the light

on the rippling sand, 

at the edge of the turning tide —

its upheaval —

its stunning proposal —

its black, anonymous roar.”

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