Somali-Canadian songwriter Cold Specks has released a new song off her forthcoming new record which is due out later this year. The track is titled “Wild Card” and was inspired by the strength of refugee women. As Hussein explains…
The sparse arrangement was written before the vocals and melodies. Those things came after I had visited my mother and noticed her frantically phoning people up. There was a man in my family’s store, a new refugee, who had travelled from Somalia to Canada. By water and by foot he had travelled halfway around the world to establish a better life for himself and his family who were still at home. My mother had never met him before. He was a complete stranger from a familiar place. She took him to a local restaurant, fed him and found him somewhere to stay. I was astonished by her selflessness and kept humming “I’ll be there for you. Don’t know why”
Listen to “Wild Card” above.
Stay tuned for a new Cold Sparks record due later this year and catch Cold Specks on tour at the dates below.
TOUR DATES
06/23/17 – Toronto, ON – NXNE
07/13/17 – Vancouver, BC – Vancouver Folk Festival
07/21-23/17 – Edmonton, AB – Interstellar Rodeo
09/30/17 – The Cluny – Newcastle, UK
10/01/17 – Lending Room – Leeds, UK
10/02/17 – King Tut’s – Glasgow, UK
10/03/17 – Night & Day – Manchester, UK
10/04/17 – Cube – Bristol, UK
10/05/17 – Omeara – London, UK
10/06/17 – Supersonic – Paris, FR
10/07/17 – Witloof Bar – Brussels, BL
10/09/17 – Bitterzoet – Amsterdam, NL
10/10/17 – Yuca – Cologne, DE
10/11/17 – Nochtspeicher – Hamburg, DE
10/12/17 – Atlas – Aarhus, DK
10/13/17 – Vega – Copenhagen, DK
10/14/17 – Musik & Frieden – Berlin, DE
10/15/17 – Brotfabrik – Frankfurt, DE
10/16/17 – Milla – Munich, DE
10/18/17 – Arena – Vienna, AT
10/19/17 – Theatre Gessneralle @ Stall 6 – Zurich, CH
10/20/17 – La Graviere – Geneva, CH
10/21/17 – Quirinetta – Rome, IT
photo by Norman Wong