Why is your new song called “Holocene”? Zella Day – born in Arizona in 1995 – doesn’t explain that. It deals with the “interpersonal relationship” between the inside and outside world, she says.
Zella Day feat. Weyes Blood: „Holocene“. At least since “California Dreaming” we have known a kind of harmony singing (with touches of a canon) that inevitably expresses longing for California for the rest of the world as well. Especially on a winter day. Or if it snows in autumn. For example in Colorado, where Zella Day – canonically and harmonically assisted by colleague Weyes Blood – sets this pretty longing song. Under corona conditions: “Please, won’t you stay at home”, you are asked, but: “For many, that’s nowhere.” At least not San Francisco, where your best friend is studying. What is left for consolation? The beautiful harmonies, of course, driven by a subtly swinging drum kit. And the hope that time will heal everything. “She isn’t a liar”, Zella Day is convinced: “Time is a fire, time forgets no one.” And we still have Californian dreams.
The song of the week are chosen every week by Thomas Kramar (“Die Presse”) and Christoph Sepin (Radio FM4). It can be heard on Sunday between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on FM4. More information at www.diepresse.com/songderwoche and fm4.ORF.at.
(“Die Presse”, print edition, 02/28/2021)
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