From the forthcoming LP SISTER, out 9 Oct 2020 with 37d03d

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Choreography & Cinematography: Indira Dominici & Camila Dutervil
Editing: Pauline De Lassus
Super8mm, Sicily & Sardinia, 2015/2016

Song credits:
Produced and recorded by Thomas Bartlett
Additional recording by David Chalmin
Piano and a bit of everything by Thomas Bartlett
Drums by Raphaël Séguinier
Trombone, Synths by Ben Lanz
Guitar by Bryce Dessner
Mixed by Pat Dillett
Mastered by Joe Lambert

Mina Tindle hints at the literary fascinations that spark much of her songwriting, presenting a single inspired by Italo Calvino’s story collection Under the Jaguar Sun: "Indian Summer." The artist describes "Indian Summer" as a tale of "rediscovered sensuality and unintended cannibalism." In a departure from the radiant alt-pop of De Lassus’ first two albums, SISTER brings that depth and contrast to a more heavily contoured yet beautifully nuanced sonic backdrop. The album was mostly made in New York City with producer Thomas Bartlett (Joan as Police Woman, Yoko Ono, Florence + the Machine), with additional production by Sufjan Stevens and Bryce Dessner.

SISTER is an album populated by mythic creatures of all kinds: lions on parade, lovers turned to cannibals, kings and Sirens and women with wings. Like any great fabulist, she threads her storytelling with a fragile wisdom, revealing essential truths about all the danger and wildness within the human heart. With each moment elevated by her spellbinding vocal work—a gift she’s shown in recording and touring as a singer for The National—SISTER ultimately makes for a transportive listening experience, at turns impossibly dreamlike and profoundly illuminating.

“With my first two records I was on a quest, searching for the meaning of life and love and absolutely everything, but in making this album I felt much more grounded,” says De Lassus, who notes that becoming a mother closely informed her songwriting on SISTER. “Instead of feeling nostalgic for the past or worried about the future, I’m living more fully in the present, and it makes all the colors feel deeper and more contrasted than they were before.”

Artist Indira Dominici, choreography & cinematography for the video accompaniment, adds, “Where you can't love, don't delay” – my friend Camila Dutervil would quote Frida Kahlo while we were on the road in Italy. I was looking for the mermaids I wanted to film, and Camila was my true-hearted travel companion. For some reason, I’ve mistaken the quote, and until this day, I thought it said, 'Where you can't dance, don't delay.' In Sardinia, we drove to Is Arutas, the crystal sand beach, looking the polished colorful quartz stones, but arrived in a cold, windy, clear, black & white day and danced, in and for the wind; The following year, we went to Stromboli, Sicily, and danced on and for the dark volcanic sand beach, feeling the pulse of the volcano in our bodies. Indian Summer brings back my memories of dancing in and for the waters, the air, the earth and the fire. With the women I love, my greatest friends, I wandered on my venture of capturing affection on film. Traveling home, cause you’ll always be my home."

"Indira Dominici is one of my favorite artists, She seems to see and reveal beauty in people and things effortlessly. This song was originally inspired by Italo Calvino's short novel Under the Jaguar Sun, but Indira is a kind of magician and she seems to have changed the meaning of the song with her images. Camila Dutervil and her are telling me a new story with this video and I am mesmerized...

'Where you can't love don't delay
Where you can't dance don't delay... '

Merci mes beautés"
- Mina Tindle

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