Amanda Bergman shares new single ‘My Hands In The Water’
AMANDA BERGMAN SHARES NEW SINGLE ‘MY HANDS IN THE WATER’ ALONGSIDE LIVE SESSION
NEW ALBUM YOUR HAND FOREVER CHECKING ON MY FEVER OUT 7 JUNE VIA COWCOW RECORDS
PLAYS SHOW AT LONDON’S THE SOCIAL ON 11 JUNE AS PART OF EUROPEAN TOUR
‘4/5’ Mojo
“Two extraordinary new songs, lifting her art to a different space entirely”
Clash
“Amanda Bergman has managed to bottle pure peace on this new release”
4.5/5 Far Out
“There is a stoic quality to Amanda Bergman’s voice on ‘Wild Geese, Wild Love’ that elevates both her feelings and the song itself above and beyond wounded heartbreak and onto something that is altogether more transcendental”
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Listen to ‘My Hands In Water’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xKCRU9dZKQ
Watch the live session of ‘My Hands In The Water’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgdYNxRewC8
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Amanda Bergman will release her new album Your Hand Forever Checking On My Fever on 7 June via CowCow / Redeye. Following previously shared lead singles ‘Wild Geese, Wild Love‘, ‘Day 2000 Awake‘ and ‘Poor Symmetry‘ she has today followed up with new single ‘My Hands In The Water’ alongside a beautiful live session of the track.
Speaking of the track Amanda says:
“Grief is very primal. it’s like getting infested by a power that either will eat you or lead you depending on how you ride it.It’s about processing the acceptance of the fact that people you love are going to die. We are tricked into moving very far from death when it’s not acutely in our eyesight, on our schedule. That can be very limiting. It’s lovely to take someone for granted, but relations that have a calmness about the fact that they will not last forever probably leaves you a better person.”
This calmness and acceptance radiates through ‘My Hands In The Water’ which despite plumbing heavy subject matter finds light and warmth over it’s skittering percussion in Amanda’s rich yet lighter-than-air voice.
Your Hand Forever Checking On My Fever contains within it a remarkable breadth of all that life can throw at a person, winnowed down into welcoming, approachable miniatures. Painted in lush, orchestral brush-strokes that spread like the vast expanses of Amanda’s home on a working farm in rural Sweden, or bring into focus the detail of the lessons learned (or learning) across a career as a musician, an environmental activist, a farmer, and a mother.
In the years following the release of her debut Docks – a success in her native Sweden but due to its limited release a record destined to become a lost classic elsewhere -, Amanda’s life has undergone dramatic change. Initial years were spent touring both her own music as well as with Swedish band Amason. She supported and found fans in a wide community of musicians and artists including the likes of Bon Iver and First Aid Kit (many of whom write Amanda regularly wondering about new music). It wasn’t long though before she packed this life up and started up her farm, not only a fully working farm which she and her partner Petter Winnberg run together, but one which is trailblazing in its approach to sustainable and ethical farming. The album was mixed and record by Petter between the studio they built on this farm (which also doubles as their CowCow label office, and as the music venue they started together, Rockbonden) and Atlantis Metronome in Stockholm.
High-res images are available here
Photo credit: Julia Mård
Pre-order Your Hand Forever Checking On My Fever here:
https://ffm.to/amandabergman-yourhandforevercheckingonmyfever
Your Hand Forever Checking On My Fever tracklist:
1. Wild Geese, Wild Love
2. I Love Him Til I Love Him Right
3. Day 2000 Awake
4. Poor Symmetry
5. My Hands In The Water
6. Offset Island
7. The World Is Tired Of You
8. Sign Of A Past Life
9. Thought I Didn’t Wake You Up
Tour dates:
7 Jun – Oslo, NO @ Kampen Bistro SOLD OUT
11 Jun – London @ The Social – TICKETS1
4-15 Jun – Stavanger, NO @ Mablis Festivalen
28 Jun – Malmö, SE @ Annelundsgärden
29 Jun – Hammenhög, SE @ Garaget
3 Jul – Falkeröd, SE @ Falkeröd café & lada
4 Jul – Borlänge, SE @ Alive Festival
26 Jul – Östersund, SE @ Storsjöyran
27 Jul – Linköping, SE @ Skyltens innergård
28 July – Bjärred, SE @ Bjerreds Station
4 Aug – Stjärnsund, SE @ Smedjan
9 Aug – Halmstad, SE @ Galgbergsfestivalen
7 Sep – Trondheim, NO @ Havet
8 Sep – Bergen, NO @ Landmark
9 Sep – Oslo, NO @ Parkteatret
15 Sep – Copenhagen, DK @ Loppen
16 Sep – Berlin, DE @ Privatclub
18 Sept – Nijmegen, NL @ Merleyn
19 Sept – Paris, FR @ Pop Up du Label
23 Sep – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
24 Sep – Cologne, DE @ Jaki
25 Sep – Brussels, BE @ Botanique
26 Sep – Hamburg, DE @ Nochtwache
28 Sep – Umeå, SE @ Powerpose FM
Tickets are available here:
https://linktr.ee/amandabergman