#water's gate

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Is it choice or instinct that controls us? Porteau pose such a question on their latest single ‘River Song,’ written while the Vancouver duo spent their summer in a remote Alaskan village. 

The wintry backdrop proves fruitful for such a track, a soft bed of swirling ambient folk replete with bittersweet longing and existential angst.

Vocalist Victoria Williams says about the track via press release:

‘I found myself inspired to write “River Song” while watching salmon swim in the streams. Their journey back to spawn is magnificent – one that brings life, but ultimately ends in death. Using the earth’s magnetic field, like a compass, the salmon return to their final resting place.

I was struggling to wrap my head around accepting the natural cycle of life. Seeing the salmon’s instinctual guidance drawing them back to their place of birth helped me discover where I needed to be.’

‘River Song’ is from Porteau’s upcoming album Water’s Gate, out March 15.

- Bianca B.