Orenda Fink Shares “You Can Be Loved” Video With Stereogum Blue Dream Out Now On Saddle Creek Fall Tour Dates Announced

Stereogum has premiered Orenda Fink’s new video for “You Can Be Loved” from Blue Dream which is out now on Saddle Creek. The video was directed by Amélie Raoul, a French filmmaker who currently resides in Paris. Raoul says, “The dream concept of Orenda’s record, and specifically the dual nature of ‘real’ (the waking and the dreaming) led me to use a double exposure effect for the video. I’d first come across the technique in photography, was inspired by the works of Aneta Ivanova, and decided to experiment further with the effect in video. It struck me as being the perfect tool to depict this protagonist’s exploration, a journey that is dual in its nature (internal and external).” Blue Dream can be ordered now on CD and LP in the Saddle Creek online store. Orenda Fink announced a fall tour which will begin on September 18 in Denver and will include shows at this year’s CMJ Music Marathon. The upcoming tour will make stops in major cities such as Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Atlanta and more. All upcoming shows are listed below.

Throughout her time with Azure Ray and over the course of her solo career, Orenda Fink has never shied from exploring the darker edges of spirituality and the human condition. On her debut solo album Invisible Ones, Orenda explored traditional Haitian ritual and mysticism. She then followed that up with an examination of the Southern Gothic subconscious on Ask the Night. Needless to say, death has been visible in much of her music. On her latest album, Blue Dream, she looks deeply at the subject, reflecting upon a year-long meditation on death that started with a dog named Wilson and the words of Laurie Anderson.

She then spent the next year understanding the experience and filtering it through the musical inspirations of Smog, Violetta Parra, and Kate Bush to craft Blue Dream. The album truly came together at ARC in Omaha, NE with the help of producers Ben Brodin and Todd Fink (The Faint), along with drummer Bill Rieflin (Ministry, Swans, R.E.M., King Crimson).

Lead single “Ace of Cups” starts the album off by using the Tarot symbol of attunement and spirituality to explore the interconnectedness with the world and humanity that even death cannot undo. The haunting “Holy Holy” examines them directly with lines “We come into this world all alone/and we leave with not much more” and “I lay in bed/collect all my dreams/then I pay/someone to read them to me/the simple ones are just as they seem/but open your eyes/and they say so much more.” Whereas “All Hearts Will Beat Again” displays ideas Orenda came to understand upon reflection in lines “It’s a sign in the eyes/something in your smile/it’s a nod and a wave from the darkness/but our hearts will beat again/and the love we gave will come back/but I don’t know where or when.”

Writing the album allowed Orenda to contemplate the experiences that precipitated it and explore new perspectives gained over the past year. This process left her with the belief that we can only be truly healed if we find our “interior God.” How do you find your interior God? There are many ways, but she believes one of them is through dreams. Dreams being the closest way to have a direct experience with the all-knowing past, present, and future.

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