Dancer, the new single from Pitou

Pitou shares ‘Dancer’, the third song from her upcoming debut album, after previous released songs ‘Big Tear’ and 'Angel'. Pitou: "This song is an ode to moving towards the light, but also a reminder to myself that the moving from light to dark and back is part of life. It's the soundtrack to the quest of finding how I can make this movement more gracefully - not like a passive subject to these waves, but more like a dancer."

The song starts: “I push myself into light, I need it more than ever.” A interwoven harp- and guitar- part comes in, supported by subtle but persistently grooving percussion. Where the song starts with a feeling of restlessness, towards the second verse, a new-found confidence comes in. Just before the outro kicks in, we hear her voice almost disappear into a choir of sirens, only for her to come back in a final crescendo, where the first line of the song is repeated over and over again. It is Pitou’s plea: ‘move towards the light’ - to herself and anyone who needs it. And the title? “This movement, from dark to light and back again, sometimes feels very violent. Like a natural phenomenon, waves, that you are forced to give in to. I’ve been thinking about these waves, and how I would like to be more graceful in the surrendering. Make it less of a fight, and more of a dance."

"The video of this song was shot with my dear friends Jasmine Karimova and Noa Jansma. The coming together of this song and the flow of us working together gave such beautiful energy. We had a lot of fun with this. The song Dancer had a hard time being written - this video was the opposite. I am very grateful to have these people around me."

Dutch artist Pitou’s musical awakening came from an unlikely source. From a very young age, she developed an unexplainable interest in classical music – her father would often find her crouched down by the radio, scrolling through stations in search of the sound of orchestras and choirs. From the age of 9, Pitou started singing in a children’s choir, and she soon found herself performing at the baptism of Catharina Amalia, the Princess of the Netherlands, and in renowned music halls throughout Europe, such as The Berliner Philharmoniker and Het Concertgebouw. “Singing together with other singers, making harmonies together, made me feel like nothing had ever done before,” she says of that moment.