Bristol-based French folk singer Julie Abbé returns with her new single “Derrière Chez Nous”, a stunningly beautiful and deeply romantic retake on a French folk classic.
Watch Julie Abbé performing ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’, one of the most cherished poems in the English language by W.B. Yeats which features on her debut album.
Like the sound of the wind in the reeds from which Yeats took inspiration, Abbé’s music is full of shifting natural beauty, whispers and sighs that could be sounds of sorrow or of love. Numberless Dreams is masterful in its delivery and intriguing in its opacity.
Our Song of the Day comes from Julie Abbé with Kellswater, a song she first heard Andy Irvine performing at the Folk House in Bristol. It features on her forthcoming debut album “Numberless Dreams”, produced by Sid Goldsmith and featuring Dominie Hooper.
Listen to Julie Abbé’s stunning interpretation of ‘A Poet to His Beloved’, one of W.B. Yeats’s finest poems, in this gorgeous video shot at the Gower by film-maker Kat Macaulay.