Over the past five years, Montreal-based soul vocalist Dominique Fils-Aimé has accumulated an impressive following in her native Canada and beyond with her smooth yet uniquely contemporary take on the genre. Now she’s using that network for good as an avenue for expressing the “intergenerational treasures” she addresses on her upcoming fourth album Our Roots Run Deep with the intention of healing any traumas that may have been inherited alongside them.
With the full record scheduled to drop September 22, today Fils-Aimé is sharing the collection’s title track, which directly addresses that concept through gently building layers of voices and instrumentation—peaking with a wailing trumpet solo. “Just as we cannot see the mycorrhizal network that allows trees in a forest to communicate with each other underground, I believe our souls do the same and that music can be a fertilizer for this invisible communication network,” the artist shares.
The track arrives alongside a music video illustrating the record’s central narrative with lush greenery filling much of the background behind shots of Fils-Aimé and the individuals she’s bridging said invisible gap between. Check it out below.
