Helen Svoboda

Helen Svoboda shares “Veins,” featuring Finnish vocalist Selma Savolainen, from her forthcoming album “Headwater” (out June 26th on Room40). The track draws Svoboda’s Finnish background into the vocal work, with Savolainen circling a single phrase about mother and daughter — “This short pondering is injected with raw emotion and melancholic beauty, as if she is bursting out of her younger self.”

Room40 announces Headwater, the new album from Finnish/Australian double bassist, vocalist and composer Helen Svoboda, arriving June 26th. Built around two double basses, two voices and electronics, the album weaves sixteen threads into an abstracted portrait of self. Watch the video for album opener “If”, a piece exploring a dream shaped by constant interruptions.