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BASIA BULAT TO RELEASE HEART OF MY OWN FIRST TOUR DATE ANNOUNCED IN TORONTO

BASIA BULAT TO RELEASE HEART OF MY OWN FIRST TOUR DATE ANNOUNCED IN TORONTO

Secret City Records is thrilled to announce the sophomore album from Basia Bulat, entitled Heart Of My Own, to be released on January 26, 2010. And for those fans that can’t wait until the new year, Basia’s first single, “Gold Rush”, will be available digitally on iTunes on November 10th.

Basia’s 2007 debut, Oh, My Darling, was a success both at home and on the international scene, garnering a Polaris Prize nomination, and praise from outlets like NPR, who labeled “In the Night” as “one of 2008’s great singles,” citing Bulat’s “graceful effervescence and … innate understanding of momentum.” Breathless, thirsty, and dislodged from dreary nostalgia, Oh My Darling was the spark that set Basia Bulat apart from the raft of typical singer-songwriters.

Like it’s predecessor, Heart of My Own was produced by Howard Bilerman at Hotel2Tango in Montreal, but it’s a decidedly more eclectic record in terms of the songwriting and instrumentation. “I think it is at times extremely sparse and, well, spacious, with big choirs singing,” Bulat says, “and then it gets really dense with really spirited and rolling drums.”

Nearly all the songs on Heart of My Own were written while on the road: traveling between cities, crossing the Canadian prairies, searching for a place to stop in the Nevada desert, trailing through the Smoky Mountains, standing in the bright dusk of a summer night in the Yukon. Perhaps most surprising was the strong influence her short time in the Yukon had on this album. Basia spent five days and nights in Dawson City, where for the first time she experienced true silence. “I felt my mind was overwhelmed with ideas. It had been a long-time dream of mine to make it to the Yukon, so to finally accomplish that, and for it to be possible because of my music, was also a very overwhelming thing.”

Basia Bulat will be touring our great nation once again in the new year, national concert dates TBA. However, if you’re in the GTA, you’ll be one of the lucky ones to hear the new album first! Toronto tickets go on sale this Thursday, October 29th. This is a show you do not want to miss!

Basia Bulat LIVE!

Saturday, January 16th, 2010 at Trinity St. Paul’s – Toronto, ON