Toronto Musician Sandra Bouza Releases New Single + Video THE CITY
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1ST SINGLE FROM NEW ALBUM
A SOUND IN THE DARK
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Toronto musician Sandra Bouza shares her new single and video ‘The City’ out now on all digital streaming platforms. Listen here.
The first single from Sandra’s new album A Sound In The Dark (out in September), ‘The City’ shows us a nostalgic look at youthful ignorance.
“This is a song about the naïve exuberance of youth,” says Sandra. “Trying to bypass your innocence because you think you’ve got it all figured out. I really felt a connection to Neil Young’s ‘Birds’ when I wrote this song.”
Known as musical shapeshifter, playing R&B, Soul, Rock, and everything in between, Sandra has a lot to offer through her music and life experience. Having spent a large part of her life in Spain, as well as travelling to far corners of the world, Sandra’s worldly vision is evident in her songwriting. Sandra lets her stories breathe in songs that are deeply personal.
For the moment, Sandra’s travels have ended. She’s home in Toronto playing regularly. And the fact that she was the winner of the 2019 Toronto Blues Society Talent Search confirmed her conviction to stay with a music career. In January 2020, she was asked to represent Toronto at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, where she and her band made it into the semi-finals out of 240 international artists.
Her upcoming LP follows the release of her acclaimed album ‘Falling Away From Me’, which was released in February 2020. Though well-received, the album, produced by Hill Kourkoutis, was sidelined as the pandemic was declared and all live music ground to a halt. She continued pushing the album, but without live performance, everything, including her momentum, was at a standstill.
But then, fate intervened, and Sandra was introduced to producer Ross Hayes Citrullo while filming a livestream concert from the Empire Theatre in Belleville, ON. The two struck up an immediate friendship, connecting over their mutual love of the Laurel Canyon era, and artists like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, CSN&Y, The Byrds. They also connected over old school production techniques, like recording an album live off the floor, as opposed to more modern layering of tracks.
Shortly after this meeting, the two started working together on a new album. This album; ‘A Sound in the Dark’ represents a return for Sandra to her folk/classic rock roots, while still maintaining the soulful sound that she has built upon in her career.
'The City' is available now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, and other digital retailers and streaming services worldwide. For more information, please visit sandrabouza.com.