<pfseg id="0">Ninu ọdun 2021, Brighton-pẹlu, Scotch-Thai songwriter Helen Ganya àbẹwò lọ. Awọn àbẹwò gbọdọ awọn ọkunrin, ko nikan nitori ti o tẹsiwaju awọn àbẹwò ti o tẹsiwaju, ṣugbọn tun nitori ti o gbọdọ bi awọn àbẹwò rẹ lati wa ni ọkan-Thai ti o wa ni iṣagbasilẹ. Ganya ti gbọdọ ni Singapore, ṣugbọn gbọdọ awọn àbẹwò rẹ ni ipa-ọjọ ti Thailand nibẹ ni ibi ti awọn ọkunrin ti awọn ọkunrin rẹ ti wa ni lati, gbọdọ awọn àbẹwò ọkunrin rẹ. Ti o ba ti awọn

<pfseg id="0">Ti o jẹ nitorina eyi ti, nigbati Helen Ganya ti wa ni gbiyanju fun rẹ akọkọ 2022 album, polish the machine, lati lọ si, o ti wa ni ṣiṣẹ lori eyi ti yoo lọ si rẹ akọkọ titun akọkọ, Share Your Care. Ganya ti wa ni gbigbe music niwon 2015 (awọn labẹ awọn moniker Dog in the Snow). Ninu awọn akọkọ ti o ti tẹsiwaju ni awọn ọdun, o ti wa ni fihan a apamọwọ fun gbangba ati artful rock ati off-kilter awọn awọ, gbọdọ gbọdọ lati awọn bi awọn Sunday Times, Uncut, Clash, Loud & Quiet ati diẹ sii. Ṣugbọn Share Your Care tẹsiwaju ọdun titun, ṣeto lori

<pfseg id="0">Awọn akọkọ, Ganya ti a ti tẹsiwaju lati tẹsiwaju awọn oniwe-iwe rẹ ninu awọn music rẹ, diẹ ninu iwaju ti awọn Orientalista akojọ ti awọn western. Ṣugbọn lẹhin ti a iyanu nipa awọn ọkunrin rẹ ti fi awọn iṣeto fun ohun ti o yoo wa ni awọn track 'Horizon', Ganya ti o ti mọ pe o ko fẹ lati tẹsiwaju ọkan. O bẹrẹ lati ṣẹda kan titẹsiwaju titẹsiwaju titẹsiwaju ni ile, gbadun awọn catharsis ti awọn ilana, nipa lilo MIDI bi a akoko ọna lati mu awọn timbre ti awọn ẹya ẹrọ Thai, ṣaaju ki o to gba awọn akọkọ ti awọn ti o

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