SoftWing - Robin Gorn

Montreal poet/vocalist/songwriter, Robin Gorn is releasing her first commercial album.

These fifteen songs are worlds in a cinematic universe that move sinuously through Roots and World music from RnB to Brazilian rhythms to Blue Grass. A formidable songwriter, Robin’s immense emotional range is heart shatteringly intimate while she is capable of knocking you over with her full-throated intensity.

SoftWing is born out of Robin's vagabond travels and explorations into international music and afro-latin traditions as well as from her roots in Jazz, Blues, Country, Folk, RnB and Pop. Her much-anticipated, revolutionary album took four years to create with old-school care given to the soundscapes and arrangements for her deeply moving songs and features musicians from Japan to Togo. Put on your head phones or Hi-fi. SoftWing is a sonic experience .

SoftWing, as Robin explains it means; “The wings that take flight from the revolution within”.
“I want this music to awaken people to who they are in their own deepest desire for connection to the source. Then meaningful change can happen."

Going deeper to find the light

Robin is rooted in the vibrant arts melting pot of Montreal. She has shared her creative energy in collaborations with artists from home and around the world in music, dance, poetry, art, film and TV. In Bahia, Brazil, she performed with some of the most celebrated musicians of that region. She also performs in poetry festivals. Robin has a special connection to the experimental women's choir Choeur Maha, with whom she has collaborated for more than a decade. 

A New Genre of Internationalist Music

“Aside from the First Nations of Canada, we are all immigrants here. I grew up in multi-cultural Montreal and Toronto with the language and music of friends and neighbours in my ears before “World Music” was available in the mainstream record stores. I write the music of the new world diaspora from the place I am standing now, which is Montreal.”

THE ALBUM

Robin's songs go deep beneath the surface to embrace the joyous and painful inconsistencies that transform our lives. What is exquisite about this album is what is not there. This innovative production creates spaces for us to experience the music. 

"I like the play of opposites. A hard reality sweetly rendered, something melodic that can seriously groove without extra volume, unexpected sonic storms that wake you up." 

The album begins with the spirit journey of "Noah's Arms" and Robin's spoken word anthem,"Love Shakin' The Fences". "Till we try" is her nod to the Philadelphia Sweet Soul Sound. Also in the 70's style, her pop ballad "Who's Watching Over You" explores the unholy promises we make to survive. We hear live recorded sounds amidst the street protests of "Printemps Érable 2012", in Montreal. “Cheguei Lá” is a circle dance capoeira style while "New Rocksteady" celebrates renewal with an Afro-Caribbean-Doo-Wap. The marching band in "Walking to Bonfim" travels the world of danceable grooves and her bluegrass tune “Beaujelais” swings the revolution with mandolin and fiddle. There are cries of of a Grandmother's sorrow that are softened by Rain-sticks, chimes and Japanese Flute in "Tumbai" and the nearly naked solo Voice and Piano tune, "I'm not Performing. “I Will Follow You Down” invites you in a slow blues to surrender to life while an invocation, “Holy” chants by a fire on a windy night.

THE RECORDING

SoftWing is a patchwork of studio recordings and live sounds recorded over four years with breaks for fundraising. The Album was produced by Jay Atwill and Robin Gorn. 

THE MUSICIANS

SoftWing features a wide cast of Robin's international music family who call Montreal home.

Walking To Bonfim

Holy

Printemps Érable 2012

Beaujelais

New Rock Steady

Salvador Montage

Im Not Performing

SoftWing - Robin Gorn

Montreal poet/vocalist/songwriter, Robin Gorn is releasing her first commercial album.

These fifteen songs are worlds in a cinematic universe that move sinuously through Roots and World music from RnB to Brazilian rhythms to Blue Grass. A formidable songwriter, Robin’s immense emotional range is heart shatteringly intimate while she is capable of knocking you over with her full-throated intensity.

SoftWing is born out of Robin's vagabond travels and explorations into international music and afro-latin traditions as well as from her roots in Jazz, Blues, Country, Folk, RnB and Pop. Her much-anticipated, revolutionary album took four years to create with old-school care given to the soundscapes and arrangements for her deeply moving songs and features musicians from Japan to Togo. Put on your head phones or Hi-fi. SoftWing is a sonic experience .

SoftWing, as Robin explains it means; “The wings that take flight from the revolution within”.
“I want this music to awaken people to who they are in their own deepest desire for connection to the source. Then meaningful change can happen."

Going deeper to find the light

Robin is rooted in the vibrant arts melting pot of Montreal. She has shared her creative energy in collaborations with artists from home and around the world in music, dance, poetry, art, film and TV. In Bahia, Brazil, she performed with some of the most celebrated musicians of that region. She also performs in poetry festivals. Robin has a special connection to the experimental women's choir Choeur Maha, with whom she has collaborated for more than a decade.

A New Genre of Internationalist Music

“Aside from the First Nations of Canada, we are all immigrants here. I grew up in multi-cultural Montreal and Toronto with the language and music of friends and neighbours in my ears before “World Music” was available in the mainstream record stores. I write the music of the new world diaspora from the place I am standing now, which is Montreal.”

THE ALBUM

Robin's songs go deep beneath the surface to embrace the joyous and painful inconsistencies that transform our lives. What is exquisite about this album is what is not there. This innovative production creates spaces for us to experience the music.

"I like the play of opposites. A hard reality sweetly rendered, something melodic that can seriously groove without extra volume, unexpected sonic storms that wake you up."

The album begins with the spirit journey of "Noah's Arms" and Robin's spoken word anthem,"Love Shakin' The Fences". "Till we try" is her nod to the Philadelphia Sweet Soul Sound. Also in the 70's style, her pop ballad "Who's Watching Over You" explores the unholy promises we make to survive. We hear live recorded sounds amidst the street protests of "Printemps Érable 2012", in Montreal. “Cheguei Lá” is a circle dance capoeira style while "New Rocksteady" celebrates renewal with an Afro-Caribbean-Doo-Wap. The marching band in "Walking to Bonfim" travels the world of danceable grooves and her bluegrass tune “Beaujelais” swings the revolution with mandolin and fiddle. There are cries of of a Grandmother's sorrow that are softened by Rain-sticks, chimes and Japanese Flute in "Tumbai" and the nearly naked solo Voice and Piano tune, "I'm not Performing. “I Will Follow You Down” invites you in a slow blues to surrender to life while an invocation, “Holy” chants by a fire on a windy night.

THE RECORDING

SoftWing is a patchwork of studio recordings and live sounds recorded over four years with breaks for fundraising. The Album was produced by Jay Atwill and Robin Gorn.

THE MUSICIANS

SoftWing features a wide cast of Robin's international music family who call Montreal home.

Cheguei Lá

Music by Robin Gorn.
 Lyric from T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets- Adapted by Robin Gorn

SoftWing - Robin Gorn

Montreal poet/vocalist/songwriter, Robin Gorn is releasing her first commercial album.

These fifteen songs are worlds in a cinematic universe that move sinuously through Roots and World music from RnB to Brazilian rhythms to Blue Grass. A formidable songwriter, Robin’s immense emotional range is heart shatteringly intimate while she is capable of knocking you over with her full-throated intensity.

SoftWing is born out of Robin's vagabond travels and explorations into international music and afro-latin traditions as well as from her roots in Jazz, Blues, Country, Folk, RnB and Pop. Her much-anticipated, revolutionary album took four years to create with old-school care given to the soundscapes and arrangements for her deeply moving songs and features musicians from Japan to Togo. Put on your head phones or Hi-fi. SoftWing is a sonic experience .

SoftWing, as Robin explains it means; “The wings that take flight from the revolution within”.
“I want this music to awaken people to who they are in their own deepest desire for connection to the source. Then meaningful change can happen."

Going deeper to find the light

Robin is rooted in the vibrant arts melting pot of Montreal. She has shared her creative energy in collaborations with artists from home and around the world in music, dance, poetry, art, film and TV. In Bahia, Brazil, she performed with some of the most celebrated musicians of that region. She also performs in poetry festivals. Robin has a special connection to the experimental women's choir Choeur Maha, with whom she has collaborated for more than a decade.

A New Genre of Internationalist Music

“Aside from the First Nations of Canada, we are all immigrants here. I grew up in multi-cultural Montreal and Toronto with the language and music of friends and neighbours in my ears before “World Music” was available in the mainstream record stores. I write the music of the new world diaspora from the place I am standing now, which is Montreal.”

THE ALBUM

Robin's songs go deep beneath the surface to embrace the joyous and painful inconsistencies that transform our lives. What is exquisite about this album is what is not there. This innovative production creates spaces for us to experience the music.

"I like the play of opposites. A hard reality sweetly rendered, something melodic that can seriously groove without extra volume, unexpected sonic storms that wake you up."

The album begins with the spirit journey of "Noah's Arms" and Robin's spoken word anthem,"Love Shakin' The Fences". "Till we try" is her nod to the Philadelphia Sweet Soul Sound. Also in the 70's style, her pop ballad "Who's Watching Over You" explores the unholy promises we make to survive. We hear live recorded sounds amidst the street protests of "Printemps Érable 2012", in Montreal. “Cheguei Lá” is a circle dance capoeira style while "New Rocksteady" celebrates renewal with an Afro-Caribbean-Doo-Wap. The marching band in "Walking to Bonfim" travels the world of danceable grooves and her bluegrass tune “Beaujelais” swings the revolution with mandolin and fiddle. There are cries of of a Grandmother's sorrow that are softened by Rain-sticks, chimes and Japanese Flute in "Tumbai" and the nearly naked solo Voice and Piano tune, "I'm not Performing. “I Will Follow You Down” invites you in a slow blues to surrender to life while an invocation, “Holy” chants by a fire on a windy night.

THE RECORDING

SoftWing is a patchwork of studio recordings and live sounds recorded over four years with breaks for fundraising. The Album was produced by Jay Atwill and Robin Gorn.

THE MUSICIANS

SoftWing features a wide cast of Robin's international music family who call Montreal home.

Said To My Soul

Here is a teaser of the different worlds moods and grooves of SoftWing CD and Vinyl Robin Gorn's Indie realease of her original music.

SoftWing - Robin Gorn

Montreal poet/vocalist/songwriter, Robin Gorn is releasing her first commercial album.

These fiftteen songs are worlds in a cinematic universe that move sinuously through Roots and World music from RnB to Brazilian rhythms to Blue Grass. A formidable songwriter, Robin’s immense emotional range is heart shatteringly intimate while she is capable of knocking you over with her full-throated intensity.

SoftWing is born out of Robin's vagabond travels and explorations into international music and afro-latin traditions as well as from her roots in Jazz, Blues, Country, Folk, RnB and Pop. Her much-anticipated, revolutionary album took four years to create with old-school care given to the soundscapes and arrangements for her deeply moving songs and features musicians from Japan to Togo. Put on your head phones or Hi-fi. SoftWing is a sonic experience .

SoftWing, as Robin explains it means; “The wings that take flight from the revolution within”.
“I want this music to awaken people to who they are in their own deepest desire for connection to the source. Then meaningful change can happen."

Going deeper to find the light

Robin is rooted in the vibrant arts melting pot of Montreal. She has shared her creative energy in collaborations with artists from home and around the world in music, dance, poetry, art, film and TV. In Bahia, Brazil, she performed with some of the most celebrated musicians of that region. She also performs in poetry festivals. Robin has a special connection to the experimental women's choir Choeur Maha, with whom she has collaborated for more than a decade.

A New Genre of Internationalist Music

“Aside from the First Nations of Canada, we are all immigrants here. I grew up in multi-cultural Montreal and Toronto with the language and music of friends and neighbours in my ears before “World Music” was available in the mainstream record stores. I write the music of the new world diaspora from the place I am standing now, which is Montreal.”

THE ALBUM

Robin's songs go deep beneath the surface to embrace the joyous and painful inconsistencies that transform our lives. What is exquisite about this album is what is not there. This innovative production creates spaces for us to experience the music.

"I like the play of opposites. A hard reality sweetly rendered, something melodic that can seriously groove without extra volume, unexpected sonic storms that wake you up."

The album begins with the spirit journey of "Noah's Arms" and Robin's spoken word anthem,"Love Shakin' The Fences". "Till we try" is her nod to the Philadelphia Sweet Soul Sound. Also in the 70's style, her pop ballad "Who's Watching Over You" explores the unholy promises we make to survive. We hear live recorded sounds amidst the street protests of "Printemps Érable 2012", in Montreal. “Cheguei Lá” is a circle dance capoeira style while "New Rocksteady" celebrates renewal with an Afro-Caribbean-Doo-Wap. The marching band in "Walking to Bonfim" travels the world of danceable grooves and her bluegrass tune “Beaujelais” swings the revolution with mandolin and fiddle. There are cries of of a Grandmother's sorrow that are softened by Rain-sticks, chimes and Japanese Flute in "Tumbai" and the nearly naked solo Voice and Piano tune, "I'm not Performing. “I Will Follow You Down” invites you in a slow blues to surrender to life while an invocation, “Holy” chants by a fire on a windy night.

THE RECORDING

SoftWing is a patchwork of studio recordings and live sounds recorded over four years with breaks for fundraising. The Album was produced by Jay Atwill and Robin Gorn.

THE MUSICIANS

SoftWing features a wide cast of Robin's international music family who call Montreal home.

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