Haley Heynderickx has announced a U.S. headline tour today. The tour follows a run of dates with Nap Eyes in the U.K./Ireland, an appearance at the Strawberry Music Festival in Shanghai and Beijing, and support dates with Ani DiFranco. Heynderickx will have her full band on the road with her for the first time since SXSW. She has also shared a stop-motion video for “No Face” today, saying it “stemmed from the idea of a Miyazaki character of the film Spirited Away, “No Face” represents a soul in no-man’s-land, the song is an odd ramble written after witnessing a bar fight in Portland based on racial discrimination.” “Haley and I wanted a silhouette for simplicity to complement the song,” says director Evan James Atwood. “Shooting it surrounded by these plants, the palo santo, and the energy, it came together naturally in one take. We both loved how we tapped into the heart of the song itself — capturing the emotion so strongly.”
NPR Music wrote that her “voice can embody nervy intensity, caustic strangeness or cooing beauty” while Uncut Magazine mentioned that she “evokes the lyrical nature writing of Nick Drake or Vashti Bunyan” and Bandcamp’s J. Edward Keyes included the album in their Best of Winter 2018 writing, “Heynderickx has built an album that is both profound and profoundly moving, an album that holds nothing back and invites the listener to do the same.”
Heynderickx uses her songwriting as therapy, a sort of mandorla to bridge the gap between — whether it be between her mixed Filipino and American roots, or the dichotomy of her soft spoken nature and her vocal power. I Need to Start a Garden is full of pure bursts of humanity, in all their beauty and all their rawness, documenting anxiety, pain and conversely healing, community and creation. I Need to Start a Garden, will be released March 2nd, 2018 via Mama Bird Recording Co.
Mama Bird Recording Co. is a Portland, Ore. based record label committed to exceptional songcraft. Founded in 2011, their catalog includes acclaimed albums from Courtney Marie Andrews, Saintseneca, Barna Howard, Myriam Gendron and Vikesh Kapoor, among others.
Haley Heynderickx North American Tour Dates
5/30 – Philadelphia, PA – Boot & Saddle
6/01-02 – Nelsonville, OH – Nelsonville Music Festival
6/03 – Charleston, WV – Mountain Stage
6/05 – Ann Arbor, MI – Power Center *
6/06 – Bloomington, IN – Castle Theater *
6/08 – Eau Claire, WI – State Theatre *
6/09 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant *
6/10 – Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom *
6/12 – Jersey City, NJ – White Eagle Music Hall *
6/14 – Portland, ME – State Theatre *
6/15 – Portsmouth, NH – Prescott Park Arts Festival *
6/16 – Exeter, NH – Word Barn
6/17 – Great Barrington, MA – The Mahaiwe Theatre *
6/18 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
6/19 – Washington, DC – DC9
6/20 – Brooklyn, NY – Rough Trade
6/22 – Charlottesville, VA – The Southern
6/23 – Nashville, TN – The High Watt
6/26 – Austin, TX – Cactus Café
6/27 – Dallas, TX – Club Dada
6/29 – Decatur, GA – Eddie’s Attic
7/10 – Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall
7/11 – St. Louis, MO – The Monocle
7/12 – Chicago, IL – Martyrs’
7/14-15 – Guelph, ON – Hillside Folk Festival
8/03-05 – Happy Valley, OR – Pickathon
* w/ Ani DiFranco
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Photo Credit: Alessandra Leimer