Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno Release NEW music video "Will You" ahead of upcoming album..
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Vivian Leva and Riley Cacagno have released new music video "Will You" ahead of their upcoming self-titled album release March 12th 2021 via Free Dirt Records. Both just out of college their upcoming album is old-soul roots music to its core. With the duo’s musical talents extend far beyond their years their new album is produced by GRAMMY-winning Cajun roots heavyweight Joel Savoy at his Louisiana studio.
The duo's upcoming release is not some soulless collection of songs imitating previous masters of American music. Rather, the pair has responded to one of the darkest eras in American history with an album of stunning breadth and originality. With mass protests, fires raging near their current home in the Pacific Northwest, and no prospect of touring anytime soon, it’s an aptly biting, bittersweet group of songs for an uncertain time. |
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Yet, Leva and Calcagno balance this with a sense of optimism—a notion that at our most vulnerable we might emerge better humans because of it all, perhaps beginning with our own intimate relationships. The eleven tracks elegantly reprise the deep threads of old-time and classic country present throughout Leva’s debut album—she did grow up in rural Appalachia outside Lexington, Virginia, the daughter of celebrated old-time musicians, after all. However, the pair fluidly meld this traditional backbone with fresh iconic melodies, expanded production, and the tightly wound vocal harmonies of indie folk. It’s an artistic statement made from this moment but built to last.