Live In The Lobby: Basia Bulat

In the organizer's words:

Live In The Lobby: Basia Bulat
Date: 15.01.2025
Doors: 6 pm
Start: 8 pm

Let's get one thing out of the way: Basia Bulat doesn't live in a château. The property at the heart of the songwriter's new studio album is at once her apartment, her jam-space-and the inside of her head. Basia's Palace is a place festooned with love and memory, bad wiring; it's a paradise that comes alive in the wee hours of the night, at a time that's suited to video games and dusty old records, when you sit in all that richness, taking in all the mess we inherit.

Reuniting with co-producer Mark Lawson, she found herself moving through a dreamworld of whispers, synths, early Eurovision tunes-and her great uncle's gauzy Maryla Rodowicz and Marek Grechuta LPs. The result feels like an album that was concealed behind the backings of Bulat's childhood photos-tracks like "My Angel," where mystery and romance mingle over squelchy synths + drum-machine, with a soaring string arrangement by Drew Jurecka (Dua Lipa, Alvvays), or "Laughter"- which was mixed, like all tracks on the record, by legendary engineer Tucker Martine (Beth Orton, Neko Case, The National)- that takes a quiet domestic scene and sees it build to a deafening sublime. "Disco Polo" is a track Bulat's been threatening to make forever-a folk-song named for a genre of trashy Polish dance music that was beloved of her father-whereas "Baby," which took years to finish, makes an elegant dance number out of an oh-too-familiar predicament: "Baby, baby, baby," Basia sings, "I don't learn!" At some moments there are shades of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot's "Bonnie and Clyde" or Charles Aznavour's "Emmenez-Moi"; at others it's the silicon-shiny sweetness of The Cardigans' "Lovefool" or Air's Moon Safari.

Basia's Palace is set to be released February^21st, 2025 via Secret City Records.

Later...with Jools Holland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC_jORIK5yg

Performance at Massey Hall Toronto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stsClmHLlkc&t=971s

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert:
https://youtu.be/IrHzGnVL5oA?si=eq1k-bIRV11Emx_h

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