<pfseg id="0">Helen Ganya ya zo tare da sabon album Share Your Care a kan Fabrairu 7th via Bella Union. Bayan samar da rubutu na album da "Chaiyo! ", Ganya a yau ya gabatar da "Fortune", da sunny da kuma ƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙ

Commenting on the track Helen Ganya ya ce: "The float glossiness of the khim (Thai dulcimer) yana tafi ta hanyar 'Fortune', wani lissafi ga mum da kuma ga dukan diasporic moms yanar gizo. Na kwarewa game da kudi da yawa Asian moms yi da kuma samar da wuri, takardun shaidar da takardun su."

<pfseg id="0">A karshe na 2021, a Brighton-based, Scottish-Thai songwriter Helen Ganya's dadin da aka fãcewa. Kyakkyawan sha'awar da ya fi dace da artist, ba kawai saboda ya gabatar da ra'ayoyi na farko da aka zama dadin dadin, amma kuma saboda yana san cewa mahaifiyarsa da ya zama half-Thai da aka rufe. Ganya ya ci gaba a Singapore, amma ya wuce haɗinsa a cikin North East Thailand, inda na'urorin da na'urorin da aka daga, ziyarci da na'urorinsa. Duk da abin da waɗannan kwarewa za su zo a yanzu cewa mutum a gundumar su ya fara? Yaya, abin da ya kasance da mahaifiyarsa da wannan yanki ba tare da wannan glue? Kuma

<pfseg id="0"> Wannan shi ne saboda wannan, yayin da Helen Ganya ya zo a kan al'ada na 2022 album, polish the machine, don fara, ya yi aiki a kan abin da zai zama da yaushe sabon lissafi, Share Your Care. Ganya yana ba da music tun 2015 (kuma a karkashin lissafi Dog in the Snow). A cikin lissafin da ya sa a kan shekaru, ya nuna sha'awa ga m da artistic rock da off-kilter lissafi, karɓar ra'ayi daga kamar Sunday Times, Uncut, Clash, Loud & Quiet da sauransu. Amma Share Your Care ya nuna wani sabon aikace-aikace, gina a kan gaban sonic duniya na Ganya da kuma rarraba su tare da lissafi Thai kayan aiki, da aka samar da wani plush, m, psych-ting affair

<pfseg id="0">Baya, Ganya ya gabatar da shawarar da albarkatunsa a cikin music, a wani matsala da tsanani na orientalising matsala na West. Amma bayan wani albarkatun game da abin da babbansa ya ƙaddamar da abin da zai zama track 'Horizon', Ganya ya sani cewa shi ba za a ba su zo ba. Ya fara sauke da wani jerin sabon songs a cikin gida, yin amfani da MIDI a matsayin wani lokaci kayan aiki don ƙirƙirar da timbre na Thai kayan aiki, kafin samar da waɗannan kwarewa a cikin matakai da yawa co-producer Rob Flynn. A biyu ya zo a Buddhapadipa Temple – Thai Buddhist Temple a Wimbledon – inda suka zo da instrumentalist Artiton Phonron, wanda za su yi aiki

The result is a triumphant, abundant record, teeming with heart and cinematic warmth. The title track is one of the first Ganya worked on, melding her own style with those Thai sounds. The celebratory song is based on her memory of following the elder women in her family – her mother, her aunts, her late grandmother – to go and visit her granddad's grave, bringing offerings (the video directed by Am Picha, features a similar storyline). “It felt like quite a magical journey to go down the trail to find him again,” she says, “It’s just trying to get that sense of honouring your ancestors and still feeling that they’re there. Sharing your grief, sharing your care, not forgetting them; bringing them food and water.” In general, following on from the themes of her last album, it’s another reminder of Ganya’s philosophy: “I think the way we live in modern society is very individualistic, and can be very lonely,” she muses, “For me, community and collective responsibility are the best way to be in a society.”

Elsewhere on the release, the floaty, glossiness of the khim flies through ‘Fortune’, a track for Ganya’s mum (“for all the diasporic mums out there”, she quips), thinking about the sacrifices so many Asian mums make and giving value, appreciation and recognition to them. On ‘Chaiyo!’, she remembers her granddad watching Thai boxing on the TV, shouting “chaiyo!” – literally “hooray” or “cheers” – and uses the memory to consider reincarnation and the family members she never knew. ‘Barn Nork’ – a phrase used to describe outsiders, something which her Thai family have sometimes called her – is the only Thai-sung track on the album, and is a tongue-in-cheek embracing of what Ganya laughingly describes as being “a noob”. For the closing track, ‘Myna’, British-Nigerian musician Tony Njoku joins her to perform the part of her late grandfather, with sparse but powerful lines like “How did you live the way you did?” – a reminder of conversations left too late, and the grief that shaped this record.

But out of endings can come new beginnings. Woven through with plaintive sadness and verdant rushes of euphoria, on the kaleidoscopic Share Your Care, Helen Ganya is singing of the losses of people and places, of our movement and our ancestry; but in doing so, encourages us to embrace life and hold one another through it all.

Helen Ganya UK live dates:

25 January - Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal*
26 Janairu - Hug da Pint, Glasgow (Celtic Connections)
28 Janairu - Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool*
29 Janairu - National Centre for Early Music, York*
30 Janairu - The Glasshouse, Gateshead*
31 Fabrairu - The Gate, Cardiff*
1 Fabrairu - Beacon, Bristol*
2 Fabrairu - Symphony Hall, Birmingham
4 Fabrairu - Arts Centre, Norwich*
5 Fabrairu - Komedia, Brighton*
6 Fabrairu - Storey's Field Centre, Cambridge*
7 Fabrairu - Kings Place, London*
12 Fabrairu - Alphabet, Brighton (album launch show)
13 Maris - Paper Dress Vintage, London (album launch show)
7 Mayu - The Deer's Head, Belfast*
8 Mayu - The Grand Social, Dublin*
9 Mayu - St. Michael's Church, Manchester*

* solo set taimako Hayden Thorpe