Share Your Care [LP]

Helen Ganya - Share Your Care [LP]

Brighton-based, Scottish-Thai songwriter Helen Ganya has been releasing music since 2015 (formerly under the moniker Dog in the Snow). In the records she's put out over the years, she's shown a proclivity towards dark and artful rock and off-kilter sounds, garnering praise from the likes of the Sunday Times, Uncut, Clash, Loud & Quiet and more. But Share Your Care marks a new era, building on Ganya's past sonic worlds and interspersing them with traditional Thai instrumentation, resulting in a plush, luminous, psych-tinged affair that is full of feeling. Previously, Ganya had been hesitant to draw on her heritage in her music, somewhat wary of the orientalising gaze of the west. But after a dream about her late grandmother laid the foundations for what would become the track 'Horizon', Ganya realised she didn't want to curtail herself either. The result is a triumphant, abundant record, teeming with heart and cinematic warmth. The title track is one of the first Ganya worked on, melding her own style with those Thai sounds. Share Your Care is a joint-release between the UK independent label Bella Union (Beach House, Fleet Foxes) and the United States label Whited Sepulchre Records (Joy Guidry, Allison Lorenzen, Midwife). Woven through with plaintive sadness and verdant rushes of euphoria, on the kaleidoscopic Share Your Care, Helen Ganya is singing of the losses of people and places, of our movement and our ancestry; but in doing so, encourages us to embrace life and hold one another through it all. 1. Weera 2. Share Your Care 3. Mekong 4. Interlude - Sam Law 5. Fortune 6. Horizon 7. Morlam Plearn (Luk Khrueng Surprise) 8. Interlude 2 - Look That Way! 9. Barn Nork 10. Hell Money 11. Chaiyo! 12. Interlude 3 - Conversations at the Catfish Lake 13. Myna