“And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there.” – James Baldwin

The songs on the forthcoming Natural Sympathies album, ’Romance Novel’, are inspired by stories gathered from the community through an anonymous survey about love.

Inspired by those stories, I wrote a song called ‘Fell in Love’, about long-distance lovers living between Moose Jaw and Toronto, inspired by:

  • A James Baldwin essay from his collection ‘Nothing Personal’
  • Kate Bush’s song ‘The Sensual World’ where she reworked the closing soliloquy from Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
  • An old finger tapping guitar instrumental I wrote over a decade ago
  • Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
  • The incredible (!!!) Natural Sympathies band (Darcy McIntyre, Dana Rempel, Tanner Wilhelm Hale) who made lush, lovely instrumentation to illustrate the storytelling
  • Additional vocal arrangements by Erin Ross of Cobra & Vulture infamy

‘Fell in Love‘ arrives on select streaming services on Tuesday, September 22nd (including the artist music cooperative Subvert).

Photo above by Mike Rollo, taken in the Grasslands National Park. 

Warmly,

Amber xo

New song BELOVED out now xoxoxo

BELOVED is the first song we shared from the forthcoming album, Romance Novel. It’s all about being HUNGRY 4 LUV. The wolves are howling! Listen on Tidal, Apple Music, iTunes, YouTube, Bandcamp, QoBuz…most places except for Sp*tify.

All songs on the forthcoming album were inspired or influenced by The Love Survey, an anonymous survey circulated in the community.

Yours truly,
Natural Sympathies

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Natural Sympathies makes fantastical art pop that explores inner life through an alchemical combination of poetic lyrics, inventive songwriting, and lush vocal harmonies within a synth-laden soundscape. Natural Sympathies works in concept album cycles that often expand into performance art and other mediums as each project dictates, often involving other artists and the general public in shenaniganry.

Having started in 2016 as the solo project of Treaty 4/Regina, Saskatchewan-based musician Amber Goodwyn, Natural Sympathies now performs as a four-piece band (Darcy McIntyre, Dana Rempel, Tanner Wilhelm Hale), occasionally accompanied by (for very special occasions) a coven of back-up dancers called The Mutual Affection. xo