There’s a new album on the way from Saltland, following her 2013 magical and outstanding debut I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us. The enchanting Montreal based cellist Rebecca Foon, known as a founding member of Esmerine and a former member of Thee Silver Mt. Zion and Set Fire To Flames, amongst many other projects and collaborations, is also a climate consultant, involved and dedicated to the fight for climate justice. Her upcoming album, A Common Truth, explores themes of climate change and sustainability. The album “is a sonic meditation on climate change: the hope, diligence, anxiety, sadness and desperation of the climate movement and of our collective consciousness as social fabrics become increasingly frayed and scorched by fossil fuel dependency and environmental degradation”, describes the press release. A Common Truth, it adds, sees “Foon unfold[ing] an atmosphere and pace on the album that allows for the coexistence of optimism and despair, resolve and resignation, the intimacy of the local/personal and the hope of the global/collective.”

Unlike Saltland’s previous album which featured several collaborators, A Common Truth is mainly a solo effort, with cello being “the predominant source for all the music and sounds”, except for Warren Ellis’ contribution on violin and pump organ on four instrumentals.

Recorded by The Besnard Lakes’ Jace Lasek, the record arrives on March 31st via Constellation. Luckily, we can already wrap our wars around the moving and magnificent first single ‘I Only Wish This For You’. Here it is.