Rosie Valland's BLUE available everywhere today
Watch the mini-documentary about the new album here
Rosie Valland’s new album BLUE is available everywhere today. On this occasion, Rosie is unveiling a mini-documentary filmed at her house in the country last January. She opens up about her musical journey, from the first songs she wrote at l’École nationale de la chanson de Granby to her dizzying period in Montréal, up until the creation of BLUE, an ode to love and slowness, in opposition to the frantic pace of today’s world.
There are turning points like that in life… It’s a cliché, but love is truly soothing. Moving to the country also allowed me to slow down and have the mental space to focus on myself and ask the right questions in order to become a better person.
Watch the mini-documentary by clicking here.
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The album is also streaming for a week via ICI Musique, who praises BLUE : It’s an art to make great songs that will be radio hits without the artist having to make too many compromises. Rosie Valland brilliantly takes up this challenge, and gives us with Blue a solid album of deep, catchy, and sophisticated pop. Without fault.
Rosie Valland will perform on Belle et Bum on Saturday, March 7, on Télé-Québec. Her radio single Chaos is in rotation on Rouge FM throughout the province. This mesmerizing pop song was mixed by the renowned Joe Zook (U2, Katy Perry, Weezer, P!nk, Modest Mouse). BLUE is among the 5 francophone albums to watch for in 2020 according to the show Bien entendu on ICI Radio-Canada Première.
Don’t miss the album release concert in Montréal on April 9 at Le Ministère. Tickets are on sale now. Rosie will also open for Les Soeurs Boulay and Marie-Pierre Arthur this spring, and she will perform in Ottawa at the NAC on May 22. More concert dates throughout Quebec will be announced shortly.
BLUE stems from a desire to free herself from her torments, which became creative fuel for the singer-songwriter: Je ne reviens jamais à ce que j’étais avant, à ce que j’étais hier (I never go back to who I was before, to who I was yesterday), she sings on Chaos. She moves forward bluntly, leaving the bad stuff behind, determined to make her dreams come true. For the first time, she acted as a producer. Alongside Jesse Mac Cormack, the longtime friend who produced her debut record, she made BLUE, a series of short, straightforward songs. Rosie Valland appears to be unwavering in her resolve and filled with a quiet strength that can even be heard in her guitar strings.
Singer-songwriter Rosie Valland’s first EP, released in 2014, succeeded in putting her in the spotlight. Already a critical fave, she made a strong impression at the Francouvertes, then released her debut album, Partir avant, in September 2015. It depicted the end of a multifaceted love, a slow burn of a breakup. She then opened for such artists as Marie-Pierre Arthur, Ariane Moffatt and Les sœurs Boulay in Quebec, in addition to touring with Lisa Leblanc in France. Partir avant won the Prix des rencontres ADISQ for a 1st album on amplified radio. The 2016 EP Nord-Est was the highly anticipated follow-up to Partir avant. Then another EP, Synchro (2017), recorded quietly as part of a personal process, marked the return of her desire to create. Those two EPs won consecutive GAMIQ awards in the Best Pop EP category.
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