Helen Ganya balik sareng album anyar anu ditunggu-tunggu, Share Your Care, dina 7 Februari via Bella Union. Sanggeus diriliskeun lagu judul album na "Chaiyo! ", Ganya ayeuna ngabagéakeun "Fortune", single ketiga anu sunny jeung uplifting ti LP. video anu ngabalukarkeun ieu di Thailand sarta ngandung gambar Ganya ditangkap di ping sungai, jeung kota kadua hilang Wiang Kum Kam di handap ieu, ditempatkeun ku 99 stupa subterranean.

Komentar dina track Helen Ganya nyebutkeun: "The glossiness floating of the khim (Tai dulcimer) flying ngaliwatan 'Fortune', hiji track pikeun ibu kuring jeung pikeun sakabeh ibu diasporic di luar sana. I was thinking about the sacrifices so many Asian moms make and giving value, appreciation and recognition to them."

Dina musim panas 2021, di Brighton, basajan, Scottish-Thai songwriter Helen Ganya grandmother dipisah. Kesedihan parantos ngarasakeun seniman, teu ngan sabab éta ngagambarkeun hilangnya kakarabata anu sadia, tapi ogé sabab rasa hubungan na jeung jadi setengah-Thai anu disintegrating. Ganya dibéjérbéaskeun di Singapura, tapi dihabiskan musim panas na di timur-timur Thailand, di mana sisi ibunya ti keluarga anu ti, nempokeun nona. Dupi sakabeh kenangan bakal balik ayeuna yén jalma di tengah-tengah maranéhanana geus dipisahkeun? Naon hubungan nya ka tempat ieu tanpa lilin nu? Jeung jadi, dina percobaan pikeun ngalaksanakeun sakabehna, Ganya dimimitian nyimpen. "I got my diary and wrote every single memory of my time as a child in Thailand

Ieu pikeun alasan ieu, nalika Helen Ganya geus nganteurkeun album 2022 anu dipikawanoh, polish mesin, pikeun ngahontal, anjeunna geus dianggo dina naon bakal jadi rekaman anyar nya, Share Your Care. Ganya geus ngéléhkeun musik saprak 2015 (dina mantuan Dog in the Snow). Dina rekaman anu anjeunna ngéléhkeun ngaliwatan taun, anjeunna geus ditémbongkeun hiji persekitaran kana rock gelap jeung artistic jeung off-kilter sora, nyokot pujian ti kawas Sunday Times, Uncut, Clash, Loud & Quiet jeung leuwih. Tapi Share Your Care ngagambarkeun era anyar, diwangun dina dunya sonic Ganya kaluar jeung interspersing aranjeunna ku instrumen Thai tradisional, ngabalukarkeun hiji plush, luminous, psych-ting affair nu dipenuhi ku perasaan.

<pfseg id="0">Awalna, Ganya geus ragu-ragu pikeun ngawanohkeun warisan-Na dina musik na, saeutik waragad ka pandang orientalisasi sakuliah. Tapi sanggeus impian ngeunaan badag nya nyetel dasar pikeun naon bakal jadi track 'Horizon', Ganya sadar yén anjeunna teu hayang ngurangan sorangan ogé. Anjeunna dimimitian nyusun runtuyan lagu anyar di imah, ngarasakeun katarsis tina prosés, ngagunakeun MIDI salaku alat sementara pikeun ngirim timbre tina instrumen Thai, saméméh ngabalukarkeun inkarnasi ieu awal ka co-produser na sering Rob Flynn. Pasangan ieu dipigawé ka Buddhapadipa Temple – ku temple Buddhist Thai di Wimbledon – dimana aranjeunna kapanggih instrumen Artiton Phon, nu bisa maénkeun ek, duang jeung kh

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 Januari - Hug jeung Pint, Glasgow (Celtic Connections)
28 Januari - Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool*
29 Januari - National Centre for Early Music, York*
30 Januari - The Glasshouse, Gateshead*
31 Februari - The Gate, Cardiff*
1 Februari - Beacon, Bristol*
2 Februari - Symphony Hall, Birmingham
4 Februari - Arts Centre, Norwich
5 Pébruari - Komédia, Brighton*
6 Pébruari Storey's Field Centre, Cambridge*
7 Pébruari - Kings Place, London*
12 Pébruari - Alphabet, Brighton (album launch show)
13 Maret - Paper Dress Vintage, London (album launch show)
7 May - The Deer's Head, Belfast*
8 May - The Grand Social, Dublin*
9 May - St. Michael's Church, Manchester*

* set solo ngarojong Hayden Thorpe