REB FOUNTAIN releases new single ‘Heart’  

Photograph by Kalvin Fountain-Best

‘Heart’ is the new single from 2021 Taite Music Prize winner Reb Fountain.

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. Surrounded by tapestries, trunks & trinkets, in a makeshift room in the middle of anywhere, Fountain plays with the ethereal and earthly nature of love. “Your arrow is loose in my heart.”