QUINQUIS shares a new track today, titled ‘Morwreg’

QUINQUIS

ÉMILIE QUINQUIS SHARES NEW TRACK AHEAD OF

TRANS MUSICALES FESTIVAL, RENNES, ON 5 DEC

LISTEN TO ‘MORWREG’

QUINQUIS – aka Breton musician and songwriter Émilie Quinquis – has shared a new track today, ahead of a performance at Trans Musicales Festival on 5 December.

The track is the first new QUINQUIS music since the AER EP and her debut album on Mute, SEIM (2022), which was described by Uncut as “… ethereal, sometimes casually ominous songs… amid flickering synth flourishes”.

‘Morwreg’ (tr. “mermaid” in Breton) is a haunting love song between a mermaid and a sailor. The track was inspired by the women of Ushant Island, where Émilie lives, and the love stories they historically shared with sailors who would arrive for a few weeks, then go away for months. Legends say that some of the women of Ushant have a mermaid as an ancestor. The mermaid in the song had 11 sisters, all left behind when she fell in love with a human, and she, and her descendants were cursed because of this. ‘Morwreg’ is the love song that the mermaid may have sung to her sailor before the sea – or her sisters – took him.

Listen to the track, where ambient synthesis builds into urgent beats rising from the abyss. The cavernous track opens out into arpeggio-ed melodies while Quinquis’ haunting mermaid asks the sailor “Lâr din ervat ha ma c’harez?” (tr. “Tell me beautifully, do you love me?”).

Last month, Ladytron shared Emilie Quinquis’ remix of ‘We Never Went Away’, and recent remixes of her own work include Phew’s remix of ‘’Netra Ken’ and Keeley Forsyth’s take on ‘Adkrog’. Both ‘Netra Ken’ and ‘Adkrog’ were singles from SEIM, an album that forges a deep connection to the artist’s own culture, history and identity.

Listen to / buy SEIM

Listen to / buy AER EP

‘Setu’ official video

‘Adkrog’ official video

‘Run’ official video

‘Netra Ken’ Live at The Eskal