Circuit des Yeux has released a new song, ‘The Manatee’, which was recorded during the sessions for last year’s -io. The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Rudy Rubio. Watch and listen below.
“At 4:30 A.M. on February 4th, 2020 a manatee popped out of the sea and stared directly at me,” Circuit des Yeux’s Haley Fohr said in a statement about the new song. “It was a charged 10 seconds. The experience stuck with me so much that I wrote a song about it.”
“The music video (directed by Rudy Rubio) is a depiction of my own kind of manatee,” she added. “I play a wet sea creature trying to make it work in a dry-land society. It is inspired by the scientific understanding that the manatee crawled into the ocean 50,000,000 years ago. The manatee is my reminder that intuition and two legs might be all a person needs to find a more hospitable world – perhaps an undiscovered place to call home.”
Along with the track, Circuit des Yeux has also announced European and North American tour dates for 2022, including a special performance at the Barbican Centre’s Milton Court Concert Hall on April 6. Find the list of dates below.
Last week, Steve Gunn shared a new collaborative EP titled Nakama, which featured Circuit des Yeux’s reinterpretation of ‘Ever Feel That Way’.
Circuit des Yeux 2022 Tour Dates:
Feb 24 – Vancouver, BC – St. James Hall
Feb 25 – Seattle, WA – Fremont Abbey
Feb 26 – Astoria, OR – Anita (solo)
Feb 27 – Portland, OR – The Old Church
Mar 1 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
Mar 2 – Los Angeles, CA – Pico Union Project
Mar 17 – Austin, TX – SXSW
Mar 25-26 Knoxville, TN – Big Ears Festival
Apr 2 – Bern, Switzerland – Dampfzentrale
Apr 4 – Berlin, Germany – HAU 1
Apr 6 – London, England – Barbican Centre, Milton Court Concert Hall
Apr 8 – The Hague, Netherlands – Rewire Festival
Apr 9 – Brussels, Belgium – BRDCST Festival
Apr 11 – Paris, France – Centre Pompidou
Apr 13 – Lille, France – L’Auditorium du Conservatoire
Apr 15 – Dublin, Ireland – National Concert Hall Studio
May 3 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th St. Entry
May 4 – Milwaukee, WI – Cactus Club
May 6 – Iowa City, IA – Englert Theatre
May 7 – Columbia, MO – Stephen’s Lake Amphitheatre
May 8 – St. Louis, MO – William A. Kerr Foundation
May 9 – Rock Island, IL – Rozz Tox
Jun 2 – Louisville, KY – Decca
Jun 3 – Memphis, TN – Crosstown Arts
Jun 4 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl
Jun 5 – Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle
Jun 6 - Philadelphia, PA – PhilaMOCA
Jun 7 – Brooklyn, NY – Green-Wood Cemetery (Pioneer Works Graveyard Shift)
Jun 9 – Brattleboro, VT – Epsilon Series
Jun 10 – Montreal, Quebec – Centre PHI
Jun 11 – Ottawa, Ontario – Arts Court
Jun 13 – Toronto, Ontario - 918 Bathurst – Wavelength Festival
Jun 14 – Detroit, MI – Trinosophes
Jun 16 – Chicago, IL – Constellation
Jun 17 – Chicago, IL – Constellation
Sep 1-4 – Larmer Tree Gardens, UK – End of the Road
