Quinquis - eor *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 9th May 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

The album – which means “anchor” in Breton – takes inspiration from time Émilie spent at sea, leaving her island to go sailing from Brittany to the Faroe Islands, via Ireland and the Scottish Islands. More specifically, it was inspired by the foggy movements she witnessed, far out to sea, that resembled mermaids. While thinking about sailors over the centuries who had also seen what she had seen, she began to imagine how these powerful sirens might appear in contemporary life. Over eight tracks, she weaves stories about mermaids that would like to be sailors, mermaids have fallen in love with mermaids, and mermaids that were cursed for wanting to love like humans, all the time celebrating the enchantment, the power and the mystery of these fantastical creatures, and the role they play, especially in communities with direct links to the sea. 
 
Written, produced and performed by Émilie Quinquis and the celebrated producer Gareth Jones. A card drawn from Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies instructed her to “find a safe area, use it as an anchor” and, after finding her space, she set to work. Ideas emerged acoustically, and were built upon with modular and analogue electronics, creating an immersive and singular world driven by Émilie’s sublime vocals. The album is sung mainly in Breton with two guests singing in their own languages: triple harpist and composer Cerys Hafana sings ‘Blaz an holen’ in Welsh, while  labelmate Desire Marea sings ‘Inkanuko’ in Zulu. ‘Inkanuko’ (meaning “desire” in Zulu) opens the album with Émilie’s gossamer voice, before electronics give way to Desire Marea’s tender vocal as the pair deliver surely the first track sung in both Breton and Zulu. Émilie explains that, “…it’s a song about making sure that little flame inside of you is not going to die. Desire was an amazing person to help kick off the idea for the whole album.”

Tracklisting 

A1 Inkanuko (feat. Desire Marea)
A2 The tumbling point
A3 Blaz an holen
A4 Distro
B1 Dec'h
B2 Morwreg
B3 Peñseidi
B4 Aet on

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