GLORIA DE OLIVEIRA shares new single "Sacred Hearts". Album 'The Lying Swans' out Oct 30th via La Double Vie

GLORIA DE OLIVEIRA  - Shares new single "Sacred Hearts" - Album 'The Lying Swans' out Oct 30th via La Double Vie & Cargo Records

Photo credit: Beto Ruiz Alonso Today Gloria de Oliveira shares her new single "Sacred Hearts", taken from upcoming album 'The Lying Swans', which is set for release Oct 30th via La Double Vie & Cargo Records.  Produced by Randall Dunn (known for his work with Anna von Hausswolf, Marissa Nadler and on the score for the Sci-Fi Horror film ‘Mandy’), the song captures the tension between the sweet euphoria, debilitating anxiety and visceral blood rush of falling in love. “Trying to contain / My heart lit up in flames" is the yearning mantra delivered by Gloria de Oliveira’s dreamlike vocals, floating over rolling guitars, lush synthesizers and a heartbeat like pulse by none other than acclaimed American drummer Matt Chamberlain (Pearl Jam, Fiona Apple, David Bowie). “The Catholic image of Christ’s Sacred Heart - a heart literally engulfed in flames - has struck me since childhood.”, shares de Oliveira. “Of course it’s meant to symbolise God's boundless and passionate love for mankind - however, as John Keats once wrote, ‘I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination’. And how does it feel to give yourself over to that affection and desire despite fear? With this song I was looking to capture these seemingly contrasting sentiments.” The music video, shot & directed by award-winning Turkish filmmaker Seda Kaçak, stars London actress Mona Najma and was filmed in Hamburg’s iconic St. Pauli district as a homage to the bond between women. "Sacred Hearts" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwuEnrsixsk "Sacred Hearts" on other streaming services: https://cargorecordsde.ffm.to/gloria-de-oliveira-sacred-hearts Drawing inspiration from poetry, literature, film and visual art as much as music, de Oliveira and Dunn crafted an album that moves effortlessly between the spectral and the pastoral, where echoes of Fantasy and film scores, ancient folk traditions and the rhythmic tenderness of Bossa Nova, MPB and Tropicália converge. The lyrics likewise weave together mythology with allusions to Milton's Paradise Lost and the poetry of John Keats, Emily Brontë and Anne Sexton. The Lying Swans seeks beauty amid darkness, embracing a proto-Gothic sensibility rooted as much in German Romanticism as in horror cinema, where love, obsession, and illusion become almost mythical. The Lying Swans thus unravels as a deeply personal story of trauma and its aftermath, referencing the Greek myth of Leda, wherein Zeus tries to charm a Spartan princess by disguising himself as a swan. As with all myths, this one can be looked at in different ways, as a tale of magical seduction, or an account of a of brutal violation. Leda’s consent has remained a topic of debate for centuries. The album traces the fractured sense of identity left in betrayal's wake, the fragile process of falling in love again, and the slow return of trust. Many of the songs revolve around acts of recognition: learning to distinguish truth from illusion, reading signs, seeing clearly, and trusting one's own perception again after years of doubt. The successor to “Oceans of Time” (Sacred Bones, 2022), her collaboration with David Lynch’s longtime sound designer Dean Hurley, “The Lying Swans” leads de Oliveira into new territories. Thematically as well as sonically, on these 9 songs the German-Brazilian artist seems to be stepping out of the misty realms of reverb and gauzy fuzz, displaying an earthier, more tactile and thereby vulnerable side. Still, they inhabit the very space where de Oliveira's emotionally resonant songwriting naturally thrives, magnified by Dunn’s instinct for dense atmosphere, hovering between dream and reality, concealment and revelation. Her seraphic, yearning voice remains the focal point, flanked by a stunning cast of musicians: Matt Chamberlain’s (David Bowie, Tori Amos, Pearl Jam) one-of-a-kind drumming lays the foundation for the album's idiosyncratic movement, wherein Lennard Zander's intricate guitars and Múm’s Gyða Valtýsdóttir’s cello provide rich, warm countervoices to de Oliveira’s agile soprano. Marilu Donovan’s harp (LEYA, Eartheater, Julie Byrne) and Úlfur Hansson’s Segulharpa and custom synthesizer soundscapes add a gossamer shimmer, while Ambient icon Tor Lundvall delivers a rare spoken word performance. Lina Andonovska’s transverse flute has a leading role, imbuing the songs with both an airy and unsettling tone, indebted as much to de Oliveira’s Brazilian roots as to 1970s & 1980s Giallo soundtracks, the atmospheric Italian horror mysteries that contain both stylized graphic violence and voyeurism, and splendid beauty.   The haunting tale of The Lying Swans unfolds like a work of Magic Realism, inhabited by birds, saints, sirens, bloody faces, ghost ships and spectral apparitions, inviting listeners into Gloria de Oliveira’s most immediate and complex work to date. Pre-order album here: https://cargorecordsde.ffm.to/gloria-de-oliveira-the-lying-swans Tour dates: Oct 30th - Rough Trade, Berlin DE (Tickets)