Toronto chanteuse, songwriter, performer, producer, and radio host Lily Frost celebrates the release of her new single “NIGHTBIRD-LILITH” (Indie release – KMG Distribution) with a new video out on YouTube on December 12th. The single’s out now on all major platforms.
Listen on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3avUsJApi6WLbXpR8yI0ax
“NIGHTBIRD-Lilith” rides on an acoustic guitar riff and hand drum and is produced to bring elements of Celtic mystique through harp, accordion, percussion, and Frost’s stark, powerful vocals. Frost honours the glory and ubiquity of the feminine divine: whether siren, demon, goddess, or nightbird, who “lives within you” and offers “refuge in the night.”
Over the past three decades, Lily Frost has journeyed through the ever-evolving landscape of music and art with poetic instinct and fearless reinvention. She began as a poet, then studied jazz at Concordia University in Montreal, before hitting the road with a band of mod indie rockers bound for the West Coast. There, she fused her swing, rockabilly, and mod influences to form The Colorifics, a cult favorite known for spearheading Vancouver’s Cocktail Nation scene.
After five years of touring up and down the coast, Lily signed as a solo artist with Nettwerk Records, then returned to Toronto, where she released six critically acclaimed albums on Aporia Records, and toured internationally. Her songs have been widely synced in film and television, earning her recognition for her cinematic writing and vintage-modern sound.
In the spirit of the song, the video, produced by Jason Ball, for “Nightbird-Lilith” focuses on imagery of both the moon and the forest, symbols of the divine feminine that have extended from ancient times right through today. Across many cultures, the moon symbolizes the divine feminine, its ebb and flow linked to intuition, change, fertility, and the subconscious, and its mysterious, reflective, and rhythmic nature to inner wisdom, emotional balance, and feminine power. The imagery includes a red “blood moon,” which sometimes stands for renewal and spiritual power, and a blue moon, which resonates with the concepts of growth and wisdom. Similarly, forest symbology is primarily rooted in the historical and cultural associations of women with nature, fertility, transformation, and wild, untamed power, and appears in mythology, literature, and eco-feminist philosophy. A highlight in the video comes when Frost raises her arms and while cloaked in the white faux fur coat, her arms look like angelic wings as though she embodies Lilith in joyous flight, rising to glorious freedom.
Constantly evolving as an artist, Frost says “‘Nightbird-Lilith’ was born out of deep study, spending a year immersed in the history of pre-Christian goddesses from pagan Celtic and Greco-Roman traditions. I found myself wholly drawn to the exploration of the feminine divine. I wanted to resurrect the myth of Lilith – now a feminist icon (who refused to lie beneath Adam), and the woman who came before Eve – and bring her voice to life in this song.” Frost gives voice to the strength of the sacred feminine and celebrates the power of sovereignty, and the truth that lives inside us.
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