Ella van der Woude releases new single ‘Sol Mineur’

Ella van der Woude releases new single ‘Sol Mineur’. Second single is teaser for upcoming album ‘Solo Piano’ set for release in two weeks

After releasing previous single ‘Bye Bye Little House’ and announcing her upcoming album ‘Solo Piano’ almost one month ago, Swiss-Dutch musician, songwriter and composer Ella van der Woude now releases new single ‘Sol Mineur’. It’s the final teaser for the album, which is set for release on the 14th of February, and it comes with a beautiful cinematic video shot in the snowy mountains of Switzerland. ‘Sol Mineur’ is now available everywhere. The album ‘Solo Piano’ can be pre-ordered in the Snowstar Records webshop.

Forthcoming piano-based album by Van der Woude was recorded in solitude in a tiny Amsterdam apartment, a room that’s has been her home for the majority of her creative life. This tiny room, along with the accompanying ambience of birds, TVs, rain and traffic, needed to be safely stored within Van der Woude’s memory to move onto the next chapter of her life. Recording everything by herself (mostly at night) in just a week, Ella van der Woude made more than just a document; this record is a reminder that living space doesn’t have to expand with its inhabitant, as the creative spirit always finds a way to navigate beyond the tangible.

New single ‘Sol Mineur’ was, like the other songs on the record, written with a conscious effort not to judge anything that came out of Van Der Woude’s fingers, welcoming and working out every idea. “’Sol Mineur’ is guided by sonorities that felt most natural for my instrument and meanders like a flow of thoughts. It grows like a snowball being rolled, slows down again, gets stuck in a loop, and never seems to stop.” Thus Van der Woude.

Ella van der Woude, living in Amsterdam, is a Swiss-Dutch musician, songwriter and composer. She is a versatile artist who, after having stopped performing in bands, has been scoring films for five years now. In 2019 she composed the soundtrack of Halina Reijn's 'Instinct' and Ena Sendijarevic's 'Take Me Somewhere Nice'; films that both won international prizes. In 2016 Van der Woude produced a dream pop / triphop EP under the name ELLA with Stew Jackson (Massive Attack, Phantom Limb) and in 2011 the debut album of indie pop band Houses was released on [PIAS].

New single ‘Sol Mineur’ is available now on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Deezer and Bandcamp. ‘Solo Piano’ will be released February 14th, and can be pre-ordered in the Snowstar webshop. You can watch the beautiful video that comes with the song here: