13th Floor New Song Of The Day: Reb Fountain – Heart

Whoo-hoo! A new single from Reb Fountain. This one is Heart.

Our admiration for Reb’s music is well documented here at 13th Floor. So we are thrilled to bring you this new song. Here’s there record company blurb with details:

Fans who were lucky enough to have caught Reb live in the last year would have heard ‘Heart’ on the road. With the release of ‘Heart’, Reb offers us all the chance to catch a glimpse of what she’s been up to since her award-winning self-titled album release.

Talking about the new song, Reb reveals — ”I wanted to share a tune for all the unrequited love and longing; the great exodus of connection and the echoes of yearning left behind, reverberating through space, time and our hearts, as we fell together and apart. They say as long as Orpheus sings he breathes life into death; that, in the most challenging of times, we too have the opportunity for rebirth. Orpheus would play his u-shaped lyre; it’s two arms reaching away from one another to hold the tension of strings vibrating across the bridge between. Heart is a love song; not a happily ever after kind of love, more the type of love that makes beautiful music precisely because it is forever connected and apart. Held by heartstrings it is the kind of love that begged Orpheus to turn and share it with Eurydice only to lose her forever – the sort of love that’s human; where great suffering and great joy exist as one.”

Today’s single comes with an intimate video, directed by longtime collaborator, Lola Fountain-Best. Set in the middle of anywhere Fountain plays with her the themes of her song with fluid movements surrounded by lush tapestries, trinkets and tiered cakes. “Your arrow is loose in my heart.”

‘Heart’ song
Performed by Reb Fountain, Dave Khan, Karin Canzek, Earl Robertson
Engineered & Mixed by Simon Gooding
Produced by Dave Khan & Simon Gooding
Mastered by Chris Chetland
Recorded at Sublime Studios
Under Exclusive License to Flying Nun Records
Thanks to NZ On Air

‘Heart’ video
Directed & Edited by Lola Fountain-Best
Costume Design by Eve Armstrong-Coop
Thanks to Zambesi

‘Heart’ lyrics
“I come pre-prepared
Always uninvited I’m the last tune out
Awake and you’re there
Kissing my mouth shut with every doubt
Every doubt tares a tether tethered hearts string the bow
We are in this together why do you not throw

Heart

It’s the best of your games
Light grows dim so the stars can show
We made love like Eros
Bay the moon lead the hunt armed with arrow and bow
Every sound is heartbroken broken hearts heed the fool
Reach away from each other keep our hearts attuned

Your arrow is loose in my heart

You’re right outside and I’m standing there
Making myself all bent back wild and clear
The fingers of the hand mute unwanted strings
We open and close like a perfect ring
Throw your head back do you feel that now

Your arrow is loose in my heart

Lost my love only just found it couldn’t even hold it

Your arrow is loose in my heart”

In May 2020, Reb Fountain released her self-titled album via New Zealand label Flying Nun Records to much critical acclaim. Reb Fountain took home the coveted 2021 Taite Music Prize, was shortlisted for the Silver Scroll Award for her song ‘Don’t You Know Who I Am’, and the album Reb Fountain was nominated for five New Zealand Music Awards; Album of the Year, Best Alternative, Best Solo Artist, Best Album Artwork and Best Engineer.

The award-winning songwriter, Reb Fountain, is a consummate recording artist and performer; spell-bounding audiences with her music and artistry alike. Throughout 2020, Reb and her all-star band (Dave Khan, Karin Canzek and Earl Robertson) astounded audiences around the country on her sold out album release tour, joined Crowded House on their 13 date ‘To The Island Tour’, performed at Splore, and honoured the great Nick Cave at the sold out Auckland Town Hall shows ‘The Boy Next Door’.

Reb was born in San Francisco and immigrated with her family from North America to Lyttelton — the quiet port town out of Christchurch that’s been fundamental to New Zealand’s alt-folk scene, raising artists like Marlon Williams, Aldous Harding, and Delaney Davidson.