Leif Vollebekk mediates on love, fate, family and magic in the video for his latest single ‘Moondog’. The video finds the Canadian singer-songwriter out in the Norwegian countryside performing ‘Moondog’ alongside a tranquil pond. The song is the first track to be released from the upcoming ‘Revelation’ album due 27th September from Secret City Records. The album was recorded at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles and Dreamland in Woodstock, New York with Tchad Blake (Tom Waits, Arctic Monkeys, Tracy Chapman) mixing and Greg Calbi (Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson) mastering. Joining multi-instrumentalist Vollebeck were Jim Keltner on Drums (George Harrison, John Lennon, Traveling Wilburys) and steel guitar phenom Cindy Cashdollar.
Asked about the writing process Vollebekk responds, “During the pandemic lockdown, I was drawn to biographies and books about science. I guess I was looking for something to ground me, I read Carl Jung’s ‘Dreams, Memories, Reflections,’ I was taken aback that he wrote so freely of having premonitions in his dreams and by his fascination with alchemy. When I read about Isaac Newton’s life, I discovered that this man of science secretly practised alchemy in his own laboratory and looked for signs of the apocalypse. The more I read, the more otherworldly all these great scientists were. Dmitri Mendeleev said his breakthrough for the arrangement of the elements came to him in a dream. Is it really that different from Paul McCartney hearing ‘Yesterday’ in a dream?”
Vollebekk is touring extensively throughout the EU and UK in October 2024.
Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Leif Vollebekk has announced his new album, ‘Revelation’, which is set to be released on 27th September 2024 on Secret City Records. The new release will be available in digital, CD and LP formats, and is his third on the Montreal-based label. You can pre-order it…
Studio perfection is replaced by live perfection with a touch more soul. Leif Vollebekk is a Canadian folk artist of French and Norwegian descent who has been steadily building his career, releasing his fourth album ‘New Ways’ in 2019. In 2017 Vollebekk’s ‘Twin Solitude’ was shortlisted for a Polaris Music…
From the forthcoming album Twin Solitude, this is a soulful and passionate piece from Montreal man Vollebekk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqGxIbN-DFY
Ed Donnelly is a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and record producer from Los Angeles. He has worked with Willie Nelson, Crowded House, Marc Cohn, Jools Holland, Matchbox Twenty, The Cult, BoyHaunt, Gladys Knight, Trent Summar and The West Coast Mob, Smashing Pumpkins, Del McCoury, OK Go, Exodus, Molly Leach, Tom Morello, O.A.R., Madness, The Crystal Method, DrunkHungry, Deadmau5, Zac Brown, CrysP Tyger, Bighead Todd and the Monsters, Jake Shimabukuro, Barenaked Ladies, Tsar, Killola and more. Donnelly regularly performs with Nathan Jacques as well as Little Silver Hearts and records with GhostsDream. Little known fact: He previously held Top Secret Security Clearance with the U.S. Department of State and Q Clearance from the Department of Energy.
He currently runs The Barber’s Basement Recording Studio in Highland Park and is a partner in The Atmos at Lemontree Studio.
