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As the story goes, Demetra has spent years of her life exploring the corners of the world, doing everything from traveling to the Thai islands to study yoga to spending time to hang her own visual artwork Austria. More recently, she laid down a few semi-permanent roots in southern Manitoba, collaborating with a few of the provinces premiere musicians to get a collection of her worldly folk tunes on to tape. The result is Lone Migration, a record that speaks to the connection of man and nature; about snowy plains, ice-born spirits, and surviving the wild.

With the assistance of Andrew Braun (Rococode), Matt Peters (Royal Canoe), and Paul Bergman, the impressions the world has left on Demetra has been worked deep into the heart of her tracks, filling out the otherwise sparse acoustic arrangements with splashes of percussion and harmonies pulled from far-off lands. Try out “Hey Stranger,” a minimalistic piece of folk-pop that climbs up on the back of a rhythmic djembe and baroque keys, but still grounded in images of those vast plains it paints.

Lone Migration is out January 17 through Winnipeg’s up-and-coming Head In The Sand.

+MP3: Demetra – Hey Stranger

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5 Dec 2011 at in New Music by Kevan 0 Comments »