Basia Bulat is announcing today rescheduled tour dates for Europe in Spring 2022. Her fifth studio album, Are You in Love?, was produced by Jim James (My Morning Jacket) and released via Secret City Records. The record has been on a fantastic trajectory getting rave reviews across the world, notably in The Independent (★★★★), MOJO (★★★★), Metro (★★★★), La Presse (★★★★) and Uncut, to only name a few. This time around, rescheduling her Europe tour happens to be due to a very special event:
“This is the first time I’ve ever had to postpone a tour for a joyful reason – there was the volcanic ash that canceled flights that time and more recently, as we all know, the pandemic. This time, it is because I had a baby! Friends in the UK + Europe, I can’t wait to see you all in 2022 with my new little roadie in tow! Tickets to my fall 2021 shows in the UK + Europe will be honoured, and refunds are available if you can’t make it to the new dates. Hope you are all keeping safe and sending you all lots of love.”
See below for all tour dates and ticket links for the rescheduled dates can be found here.
Basia also shares a video for the title track that was filmed in and around Hi-Dez Studios in Joshua Tree, California. It was shot on Super8 by Kaveh Nabatian and edited by her dear collaborator Nora Rosenthal.
Basia Bulat is a singer-songwriter living in Montreal. She has released 5-studio albums and toured extensively around the world gracing such stages and festivals as Massey Hall, Montreux Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall, Newport Folk Festival, and Montreux Jazz Festival. She is known for her powerful, unwavering voice and for effortlessly switching between instruments when performing live, such as the autoharp, piano, guitar, dulcimer, and charango. Recently she co-produced and co-written songs for the U.S. Girls album Heavy Light.
Recorded in the Mojave Desert and mixed in L.A. – Are You In Love? is an album that’s gorgeous and startling, quietly strange, a shining desert record with a bit of dusty rose over all its 13 tracks. Are You in Love? is searching and certain; it’s the sound of a singer who’s refusing to hide. Basia was inspired by singer-songwriters like Minnie Ripperton, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton and Silvio Rodriguez – artists who knew (and know) how to imbue quiet songs with sensational force and boundless loving-kindness
The title track sashays like a girl-group classic; “No Control” flashes like that group’s hard stare. “Already Forgiven” ripples with reverb like a ribbon in a windstorm, whereas “Your Girl” is cruising down the highway – with Bulat doing her best Christine McVie. “Love Is At The End of the World,” the album’s gradually thunderous closing tune, is one of the most thrilling things Bulat has ever created: a blazing, incandescent ever-after, all raw electric hope. “You could keep on running,” she sings there, “you could start a war / diamonds in the dust/ still/ sing into the dark.”
Listen / Buy “Are You in Love? by clicking here.
TOUR DATES
February 28 – Munich, DE @ Milla
March 1 – Zurich, CH @ Bogen F
March 3 – Vienna, AT @ b72
March 5 – Warsaw, PL @ BARdzo Bardzo
March 6 – Berlin, DE @ Frannz
March 9 – Copenhagen, DK @ Ideal Bar
March 11 – Oslo, NO @ Krøsset
March 12 – Gothenburg, SE @ Pustervik
March 13 – Stockholm, SE @ Slaktkyrkan
March 15 – Hamburg, DE @ Käkken
March 17 – Brussels, BE @ Witloof Bar Botanique
March 18 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso Upstairs
March 19 – Paris, FR @ 1999
March 21 – London, UK @ Omeara
March 22 – Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade
March 24 – Glasgow, UK @ Broadcast
March 25 – Manchester, UK @ YES (The Basement)
