Rebekka Karijord unveils the push-and-pull of the moving, piano-led "Home"

10 January 2017, 13:00 | Written by Andrew Hannah

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Stockholm-based Norwegian Rebekka Karijord will release her new album Mother Tongue on 27 January, and she's just dropped a new single from it in the shape of "Home".

We've already featured "Waimanalo" from her album written - partially - following the traumatic arrival, three months early, of her first baby, and "Home" is an extremely beautiful piece of work. The video, directed by Ted Malmros & Rebekka Karijord herself, uses analog projections, building a series of layers on top of each other as Karijord sits at the keys.

Lilting piano chords fall like raindrops across the track, mixing with electronic sounds which recall prepared piano and harp(sichord), while Karijord's moving and emotive voice is a power to behold. As she sings "listen to two hearts syncopating" you can draw parallels between a relationship where the couple are trying to synch themselves to be able to live together, and the life which Karijord brought into the world three months early. In exploring the very definition of a co-dependent relationship, "Home" is one of those stop-you-in-your-tracks moments of natural beauty.

"Home" is taken from Mother Tongue, out 27 January on Control Freak Kitten Records.