Today’s tinsel offering comes from Sofia Talvik with her new Christmas single ‘A Memory of Snow’. Known for her darker take on the theme, Sofia Talvik is surprising us this year by not releasing a single about someone dying or kids getting robbed of their dreams at Christmas. Instead, it’s a rather soothing tale of lost love and memories of a snow-covered Copenhagen, a story that is told in both English and Swedish. Though not entirely auto autobiographical, Sofia did spend the winter of 1998 in Copenhagen studying art at a local college. It was indeed a snowy winter, though the rest can have been anyone’s story.
”That’s what I like about writing my Christmas songs, they’re more detached from my personal life than my other songs”, says Sofia, ”I feel like I have more freedom to fable in a way”.
Backed up by fellow artists Tom Marsh (Those Goddamn Hippies, UK) on backing vocals and glittering piano, as well as U.S Americana artist Van Plating on violin, the track will let your thoughts wander to traditional Irish ballads yet sound utterly modern and folky at the same time. As usual, Sofia’s angel-clear vocals take a central place in the production, and her steady guitar picking drives the beat forward.
A year and a half later after the release of Paws of a Bear (reviewed here) she’s getting back on the road in Europe, and is also doing a full month Christmas tour in Germany where she’ll be performing a variety of her own Christmas songs, her full-length original Christmas Album “When Winter Comes” released in 2017 and charted as top 5 on Folk Radio US charts. “A Memory of Snow” will definitely be on the repertoire.
More here: https://sofiatalvik.com/