Following on from their debut single remix by Peter, Bjorn & John’s Peter Morén which premièred on Folk Radio UK, Emily Barker has now unveiled the debut video from her new band Vena Portae. Watch the video ‘Summer Kills’ below:
Vena Portae are an Anglo-Swedish alt-folk band, comprised of BAFTA award-winning singer songwriter Emily Barker, songwriter and performer Dom Coyote, and Swedish producer and multi-instrumentalist Ruben Engzell.
Vena Portae’s eponymous debut album draws the listener into an epic journey of love, loss, memory and longing. From the heady alt-pop highs of ‘Flames & Fury’ and ‘Summer Kills’, to the dark, atmospheric depths of ‘Turning Key’ and ‘Transatlantic’, this is an album that is atmospheric, moving and irresistible.
The album is due for release on 18th August and features stunning lead single ‘Summer Kills’, which is remixed by Swedish indie legend Peter Morén (lead singer of Peter, Bjorn and John). As the band puts it ‘Summer Kills’ is “A song about longing, about a broken past and an uncertain future. A song about regret and vain hopes. A song about love.”
“Vena Portae” means “vein portal” in Latin; it’s a short vein that carries blood to the liver. The band were inspired by ideas of roads, rivers, veins, portals, creative openings, connections between people, places and life force.
In the winter of 2012, Vena Portae found themselves in the tiny, snowed-in Swedish town of Mölnbo just outside Stockholm. They built a make shift studio, full to the rafters with analogue equipment, spring reverbs, electric guitars, banjos, pianos and an array of weird and wonderful instruments. Over the space of a month, they recorded a treasure trove of songs, inspired by heartbreak, passion, and intrigue, which together make up the album Vena Portae.
AUGUST LIVE DATES:
15 – The Goods Shed, Stroud
17 – Beautiful Days festival, Devon
21 – Square Tower, Southsea
22 – Sound Knowledge, Marlborough
23 – Union Music Store, Lewes
23 – Music’s Not Dead, Bexhill
24 – Purbeck Folk Festival
25 – Swiss Cottage, Winchester
27– Green Note, London
30– Castle Hotel, Manchester
Order the Album here: http://venaportae.tmstor.es/