Patrick Watson – the singer/songwriter, film composer and pianist based in Montréal – has returned with a new single called “Silencio,” featuring the rising French singer-songwriter November Ultra. The song was inspired by an period during which Watson – an Award-winning artist that has released several beloved albums of explorative cinematic pop over the past two decades – couldn’t speak or sing for nearly three months. “Silencio” explores some of the impressions that came to him during this time: does he talk too much?; the anxiety that comes with reliving a conversation, learning to be a better listener and the power of silence. The song is out today, and will be part of a larger album project that Watson has been finishing, inspired by his missing voice, with more details to be announced soon.
“I think you like me better since I lost my voice,” Watson sings, over a mysterious and ethereal orchestration of arpeggiating guitars, softly touched drums, piano and burbling synths. He wrote the song with longtime collaborator, co-writer, and bandmate Mishka Stein along with November Ultra. The song was recorded in a painter’s studio in Paris, overlooking Montmartre. “With an enormous window and so much old Parisian charm and ghosts,” he says. The loft called for a classical guitar, so Stein ran to a nearby music shop and in one of several examples of kismet around this recording, found a beautiful instrument to feature on the recording. Of Ultra, Watson says, ‘her wonderful wit and beautifully soft caring tone was very inspiring. The song just kind of wrote itself, as though it was a conversation we had been having our whole lives. It was lovely.”
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Label: Secret City Records
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