Growing up around the world, Vancouver-based musician Valie’s music is heavily influenced by the ocean, something she says has been a constant in her life. Her music is heavily reliant on her Indian Ocean experience in the Seychelles islands, where she spent most of her younger years, the people she met there. She’s a Canadian, Creole, English, French, and Greek mix, which she hopes to mirror in her music. A lot of her songs stem from a fictional imagination, most of them touch real-life experiences too.
Check out the expansive and divine track “Art” (below) from this burgeoning singer-songwriter. Valie. combines a romantic ethos with glitchy electronica that makes for a Portishead meets Feist meets Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Partially written when Valie was 15 years old and still in the Seychelles, she and producer Ali decided to revisit “Art” and elevate it into an 80s inspired drum machine groove mixed with a contemporary French ballad. This is the first song Valie is releasing in French, a language that has always inspired her and that she is so excited to be creating music in. It is a romantic piece comparing love and beauty to, you guessed it, Art.
