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Fantasy Chapel (single)

by Riches

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We had been on two different continents in constant dialogue, with two different creative practices happening, and so much of the talk between us in all of that time was about trying to find a sacred site of creative inspiration. We had long spoken about how our devotion to our work’s practices and rituals, could create a place, a form, a structure. This is what the Fantasy Chapel is.

The lyrics are largely inspired by American artist Kiki Smith’s body of work. Themes of the natural world, feminism, religion, folklore, the human body, historical and fictional female characters, as well as her evocation of transformative spaces contribute to the pastoral-yet-dark setting of the song.

Musically, the song features samples from Luboš Fišer’s soundtrack of the 1970 Czechoslovakian new wave film Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders. We were drawn in by images and scenes of the film that we found online, while researching fantasy and horror films. The soundtrack is very beautiful and dream-like, it features a lot of environmental sounds, sounds of everyday life, as well as these pastoral, timeless musical passages. The samples helped achieve the stateliness and religiosity we were trying to achieve in the song.

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Turned inside
Turned inside out like a glove
Here, in the fantasy chapel
You have been touched
Step out of the frame
Of a wolf to
Hunt alone in the dark
Virgin Mary on the moon
The stars avow themselves to you

Rising from the wonder

She gave to you her broken ankle chain
An escaped circus bear
Apostle with a poisoned apple
Would you ever dare?
Apocalypse companion
All the shores she showed you shone
Virgin Mary on the moon
Remember how she came for you

Rising from the wonder

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released August 14, 2020

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Riches is the manifestation of an ongoing dialogue between Catherine McCandless, lead singer of Montreal, Canada’s Young Galaxy, and choreographer Wynn Holmes.

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