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.
