QUINQUIS Shares Keeley Forsyth Remix of "Adkrog"; Debut Album Out Now

QUINQUIS   SHARES KEELEY FORSYTH REMIX OF “ADKROG”   DEBUT ALBUM SEIM OUT NOW   EUROPEAN TOUR BEGINS IN JULY

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“…a beautiful and beguiling collection of songs” – Electronic Sound   “…ethereal, sometimes casually ominous songs… amid flickering synth flourishes” – Uncut   Multidisciplinary Breton artist Émilie Tiersen – aka QUINQUIS – today shares Keeley Forsyth’s remix of the opening track from her new album, SEIM. Listen here.   SEIM is available on digital platforms with clear vinyl and CD formats to follow this Friday, June 24. Stream and pre-order SEIM here.   After recent performances at Sea Change Festival and supporting Algiers, QUINQUIS returns to the road as a very special guest of Yann Tiersen. Full dates below.   MORE ABOUT QUINQUIS Over the course of two albums and several years Émilie has made music as Tiny Feet. On this new album, her debut for Mute, she changed her name to QUINQUIS. The name change is symbolic - simultaneously paying homage to her personal and family history by referencing her maiden name as well as representing a fresh start musically. “It’s been a new start for many things,” Émilie says. “Self- acceptance has been a really big thing for me.”   From forging a deeper connection to her own culture, history, and identity, to exploring new musical terrain and becoming a mother, it’s been a period filled with significant change. It was during this time that she began to explore new ideas. “I was on tour with Yann and our baby,” she recalls. “During my baby's nap I created a rule for myself: to come up with one new idea in every new city. From the very beginning this was a journey.”   Soon people began to join Émilie on this journey. Characters – some from her own life, others rooted in the history of Breton culture – began to come alive in song ideas. She discovered Ankou, a servant of death in Breton mythology who comes to see you in the year that you die. She explored Seiz Breur, a 1923 Breton art movement founded by a young woman in the very same small village she is from. She tapped into the lives of friends, exploring a rich tapestry of people, places, emotions, and stories all tied together by a shared commonplace: Brittany. “I put the stories of those people around mine so that I could have them share this journey with me.”   Once these ideas began to mutate into something more musical, she connected with producer and artist Gareth Jones (Sunroof, Liars, Depeche Mode and Apparat). Initially he was going to play synth but their partnership grew into something more collaborative. “The record revealed itself in the back-and-forth Gareth and I had,” she says. “It was really unexpected because Gareth and I are quite the opposite - he was the light to my darkness.”   This sense of interconnectedness leads to the album being a multifaceted one. It is deeply personal and introspective yet also collaborative and expansive. It is rooted in both historical and modern stories. It is an album that connects worlds while being entirely its own. “There is something cosmic about it,” says Émilie. “I don't know how to explain that but the way it happened with Gareth, and the way everything just suddenly all came together feels like cosmic harmony.”   The result is an album that merges sparse electronics, immersive atmospherics, and deft melodies, carried by Émilie’s tender yet quietly soaring vocals, which are all sung in Breton.     SEIM Tracklisting 1. Adkrog 2. Eñvor 3. Setu 4. Run 5. Mintin 6. Estren 7. Netra ken 8. Ôg 9. An divare 10. Te QUINQUIS European Tour 2022 July 9 – Bignan, France – Les Nocturnes Festival July 10 – Milan, Italy – Teatro Arcimboldi ^ July 11 – Rome, Italy – Cavea Auditorium Parco della Musica (Luglio Suona Bene) ^ July 12 – Martina Franca, Italy – Bosco delle Pianelle ^ July 13 – Bologna, Italy – Parco Caserme Rosse (Sequoie Music Park) ^ July 14 – Turin, Italy – Parco Certosa Collegno (Flower Festival) ^ July 16 – Barcelona, Spain – Festival Jardins de Pedralbes ^ July 21 – Cascais, Portugal – EDP CoolJazz ^ September 4 – Geneva, Switzerland – Alhambra ^ September 7 – Brussels, Belgium – Cirque Royale ^ September 8 – London, England – Roundhouse ^ September 10 – Berlin, Germany – Tempodrom ^ September 12 – Malmo, Sweden – Malmo Concert Hall ^ September 13 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Pustervik ^ September 15 – Stockholm, Sweden – Filadelfia ^ September 17 – Lyon, France – Optimisme Ambient Festival September 18 – Paris, France – La Gaîté Lyrique ^ September 19 – Paris, France – La Gaîté Lyrique ^ September 21 – Roubaix, France – La Colisee ^ September 22 – Rouen, France – Le 106 ^ September 23 – Nancy, France – L'autre Canal ^ September 24 – Dijon, France – La Vapeur ^ September 27 – La Rochelle, France – La Sirene ^ September 28 – Bordeaux, France – Krakatoa ^ September 29 – Toulouse, France – Le Bikini ^ September 30 – Clermont-Ferrand, France – Cooperative de Mai ^ October 1 – Marseille, France – Le Moulin ^ October 4 – Tours, France – Le Temps Machine ^ October 5 – Grenoble, France – La Belle Electrique ^ October 6 – Strasbourg, France – La Laiterie ^   ^ with Yann Tiersen   Stream and pre-order SEIM Watch the “Adkrog” video Watch the “Setu” video Watch the “Run” video Watch the “Netra Ken” lyric video Listen to “Adkrog (Keeley Forsyth Remix)”   QUINQUIS: WEBSITE | TWITTER | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | SPOTIFY | APPLE MUSIC