From the gas station love affairs of pitbull-walking, rhinestone adorned Edmontonians to the spiritual levity of transcendence, this album is a glimpse into my strange mind and the life I’ve lived. Loss, radiant love, transience, delirium and indefatigable hope are some of the themes. I dreamed this record into being over many years. It’s a love letter to Edmonton, to delighting in the simple things like hot dogs and friendship and the prairie sky and the absurdity of it all. To all the Dirt City angels, the big dreamers, the lovers, and the dancers, this is for you: I hope you like it. – Billie Zizi

“Midnight Sun” was born out of a writing prompt to reference a natural phenomenon. Zizi ran with the concept of the midnight sun, one where we are “soaked in the luminous 24 hour sun,” and in turn, the “gardens of our love would proliferate wildly and we would be intoxicated by the honeyed light.” Yet inevitably, the winter would come and with it the love would wither and die.

Co-produced with album collaborator Austin Parachoniak, “Midnight Sun” has an inherent groove to it with an arrangement meant to translate perfectly to a live setting, gradually deepening in intensity and heart as Zizi’s vocals and guitar lines grow around each other.

Effusive and thoughtful, without pretense yet still above board, Billie Zizi carves a distinct path marked by sonic abandon and a wild spirit. Now on her third studio album, she continues to prove herself as an exciting emergent voice in modern music. The album dances gently through illusions of kaleidoscopic colour with Zizi’s masterful vocal prowess in full bloom. 

Fans of musical alchemists akin to Khruangbin or Glass Animals can expect melodic charms rife throughout the ten track run time. Listeners are treated to decorative and unpredictable cadences, poetic prowess and tasty mid-tempo rockers, creating an airy atmosphere that feels ethereal and whimsical.

BILLIE ZIZI CANADIAN TOUR DATES:

Friday November 1st @ La Cité Francophone – Edmonton, AB (TICKETS)

Saturday November 2nd @ Royal Canadian Legion Branch 43 – Prince George, BC (TICKETS)

Monday November 4th @ Guilt & Co – Vancouver, BC (TICKETS)
Thursday November 7th @ Red Bird Brewing – Kelowna, BC (TICKETS)

Friday November 8th @ The Royal – Nelson, BC (TICKETS)

Saturday November 9th @ The Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club – Calgary, AB (TICKETS)

Sunday November 10th @ Ye Olde Jar Bar – Medicine Hat, AB (TICKETS)

Monday November 11th @ House Concert – Red Deer, AB

Thursday November 14th @ The Bassment – Saskatoon, SK (TICKETS)

Friday November 15th @ Artesian – Regina, SK (TICKETS)

Saturday November 16th @ The Handsome Daughter – Winnipeg, MB

Tuesday November 19th @ Mills Hardware – Hamilton, ON (TICKETS)

Thursday November 21st @ The Toucan – Kingston, ON

Friday November 22nd @ Horseshoe Tavern – Toronto, ON (TICKETS)

Saturday November 23rd @ The Mill Restaurant and Inn – Tillsonburg, ON (TICKETS)

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“Neon Dream” begins as an innocent sounding lovelorn folk song before the track’s guitars build into an assertive storm of emotion.

I wrote this tune as a bridge for another song but my co-producer, Austin Parachoniak, said that we should make it into its own song and I’m so happy he did. We recorded with no click and it kind of has a rawness and off-the-cuff emotional abandon that I really like. It’s my favourite tune on the record for that reason.

I love the simplicity of a single repeating refrain and Austin’s solo is exactly the type of thing I’d love to hear at a late night festival set. The tune is about the spectre of loss that we all have and the ghost of love that lives in the dreamscape of the mind. – Billie Zizi

Effusive and thoughtful, without pretense yet still above board, Billie Zizi carves a distinct path marked by sonic abandon and a wild spirit. Now on her third studio album, she continues to prove herself as an exciting emergent voice in modern music. The album dances gently through illusions of kaleidoscopic colour with Zizi’s masterful vocal prowess in full bloom.

Fans of musical alchemists akin to Khruangbin or Glass Animals can expect melodic charms rife throughout the ten track run time. Listeners are treated to decorative and unpredictable cadences, poetic prowess and tasty mid-tempo rockers, creating an airy atmosphere that feels ethereal and whimsical.

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Hot on the heels of her melancholic and yearning single, “A Picture of a Picture,” Zizi is now sharing the pedal steel laden, soaring melodies of “Levitate,” the title track from her forthcoming LP of the same name (out on October 25th).

I’ve always been fascinated with the edges of reality and this tune is about the intersection of the mundane and the profound and how those universes embrace each other. To levitate is to act in defiance of gravity, which is a metaphor for an act that defies social norms. “I let it take me, I let it take me, I levitate and I feel free,” is like when you give in to transcendence or a dream, or something that makes you feel alive. – Billie Zizi

After a brief hiatus from her solo career, Billie Zizi returns triumphantly with her most adventurous effort to date. Bolstered by her hard-earned original sound, Levitate draws new maps through familiar terrain with stunning results. Fans of musical alchemists akin to Khruangbin or Glass Animals can expect melodic charms rife throughout the ten track run time. 

Newcomers will be drawn in by her tender, innovative approach, accented beautifully with Austin Parachoniak’s keen production sense. The album dances gently through illusions of kaleidoscopic colour with Zizi’s masterful vocal prowess in full bloom.

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Co-produced with close friend Austin Parachoniak, “A Picture of a Picture” couples pedal steel guitar careening high to exemplify the searching nature of Zizi’s gentle vocals, along with emotional and experimental guitar playing by Parachoniak.

Even the most significant memories can slide into obscurity. [A Picture of a Picture] is about searching for the lost memory of love and finding it only in fragmented shadows. Like a ghost, longing paces the imprint of the heart and lives in the recesses of one’s mind, dull and intractable, a diffused grief – AKA when you break up and you can barely remember their smile but you’re longing for that ecstasy in the sunshine, that young love feeling, oblivion. – Billie Zizi

Now I see you in my dreams

In the corner of my eye

In reflections of spoons

In the stars in the sky

Effusive and thoughtful, without pretense yet still above board, Billie Zizi carves a distinct path marked by sonic abandon and a wild spirit. Her upcoming releases dance gently through

illusions of kaleidoscopic colour with Zizi’s masterful vocal prowess in full bloom. Listeners are treated to decorative and unpredictable cadences, poetic prowess and tasty mid-tempo rockers, creating an airy atmosphere that feels ethereal and whimsical.

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