New 'Of Womankind' Video
Europe/UK Tour Starts This Weekend
Of Womankind was written in that outer eyes closed/ inner eyes open mindstate that songs sometimes arrive through, and came in a heap late one night. In the morning I listened as if someone else had left it on my 8 track and it seemed to me that it was a cross-generational conversation.
I felt it to be what people who have been around doing life for a while might have to tell people who are lighter on their feet, fresher on their journey. Like where to exercise caution, when to look up and try to fathom the system you operate within, and reach for who can help you there. A nudge to not to isolate too hard, to murmurate!
And in parallel, what someone unfettered by the fatigue of experience might have to tell about living from a newness unburdened by obligation to memory…. 18 year olds and 80 year olds deciding to be equals, with natural and necessary mettle on both sides.
Maybe this rose out of my subconscious in the wee hours because I have a little girl, and her very existence slides me deeper down the timeline. And so I think about what to keep carrying and what to let go for this next leg of the journey.
The word Womankind felt like an open hand, like a simple antidote to the baked-in assumption that the umbrella we all belong under is mankind’s umbrella. To just call the umbrella something else, and see what it feels like to be ourselves in a new light.
This video was stitched together from footage of the Multitudes tour of the North America this May. Shot by Colby Richardson, Sara Melvin and Julia Hendrickson, edited by Julia Hendrickson and produced by Sara Melvin.
Feist’s Europe/UK tour of Multitudes starts this weekend. The show is an intimate experience in the round with custom immersive sound. Don’t miss out. Tickets at listentofeist.com.
I'm sitting here going through medical charts, telephone calls, hospital records, and the remains of the day as a family doc while listening to your Multitudes album for the first time. It really suits the complexity of the moments - good test results, bad test results, people in the hospital with Covid and GI bleeds tonight, and two long time patients of mine passing on the same day today, both in hospice.
I was jarred from the beautiful music and vocals that have been keeping me company by the end of your song "Borrow Trouble." I absolutely love the screaming vocals you summon. The whole experience was kind of like what I'm doing right now - calmly typing narratives and responses into people's charts, in a flow of sorts like music, all while the horrors, the indignities, the human dignity, the basic struggles we all face on a daily basis with our borrowed time pass like a song... and we should absolutely scream sometimes in the complex, beautiful face of borrowed troubles.
Cheers, and love this album, thank you.