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Indie Alt Pop Artist Hollis Collaborates W/ Dresage On New Single “Bloom Indigo”

Debut Album Subliminal Out May 6th

Indie Alt Pop Artist Hollis Collaborates W/ Dresage On New Single “Bloom Indigo”

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Today, Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Hollis (full name Hollis Wong-Wear) releases “Bloom Indigo" produced, co-written, and featuring LA-based indie art pop artist Dresage. The song will appear on Hollis’ debut full length album Subliminal, outMay 6th via Anti Fragile. 

“Bloom Indigo'' is about building a home within yourself and the uncertainty of growth, despite the hope that it seems to promise. Hollis notes that “all the seeds are sewn / Now I gotta grow” over the chime-like and airy synth production that Dresage is praised for. For both artists who make music with the goal of empowering women all over the world, the collaboration was seamless and fruitful. 

Hollis, a champion for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and female collaborators, tapped LA based animator Jamie Wolfe (Rolling Stones, King Krule, Local Natives) to direct the video for “Bloom Indigo'' which is also out today. 

Listen here: https://listen.antifragilemusic.com/bloom_indigo

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv3_0F0f6JI

“The origin of this song started by reading Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés — inspired by being in the desert, alone, and thinking about the role that solitude and space plays on being a woman finding herself and her voice,” Hollis shares. We love a reflective banger!”

“‘Bloom Indigo’ is a sonic exhale where all you can do is allow the garden that you’ve planted to grow,” Dressage shares. "We spend all this time trying to manipulate our reality and will our dreams come true? What happens if we just let them come as they intend?”

“Bloom Indigo” follows singles “Burn Burn,” “Tripwires” and “Less Like” which will all be included on the new album that's already received early praise from Ones To Watch, Flood, American Songwriter, and Spin Magazine. 

Hollis, who added “recording engineer” to her resume with the new record teamed up with Macklemore collaborator Ryan Lewis as co-writer her single “Let Me Not” (Hollis earned a 2014 Grammy nomination for her work on Macklemore and Lewis’ The Heist, including vocals and songwriting for their hit “White Walls.”)

Single “Grace Lee” is a moving, introspective tribute to the late Chinese-American social activist Grace Lee Boggs. Hollis recently performed the song on BBC World News World Service’s The Arts Hour on Tour in Seattle, Washington. 

Watch the episode here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1rvg

Hollis’ debut solo album, Subliminal is about sinking past the senses and the sensical. It’s about the complexity of healing when everything hurts, embracing the unknowns, the falls, and the falling apart. It’s about the strength to surrender and finding the courage to unnumb.

Hollis will join Mac Demarco, Mitski, Animal Collective, Japanese Breakfast and other indie icons for the “Day In Day Out” Festival from August 12-14th in Seattle, Washington.  

 

About Hollis Wong-Wear:

Hollis is a modern-day Renaissance woman: independent recording artist, vocalist, songwriter, creative producer, and community advocate. With her roots in spoken word and slam poetry through the nationally recognized Youth Speaks program, Hollis is passionate about how creativity and the arts fuel and shape civic discourse and is dedicated to lending her voice and capacities towards vibrant social equity. Known best for her collaborations with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis ("White Walls," for which she was Grammy-nominated), Shawn Wasabi ("Otter Pop") and her band The Flavr Blue, Hollis' solo music -- which she calls existential alt or "sad girl jams" -- showcases her singular voice and rich, daring lyricism. Her debut solo EP half-life was released in February 2020; her self-directed video for her single "All My Weight" premiered on Billboard, and she was named one of Pigeons & Planes' Best New Artists 2020 upon its release. Originally from the Bay Area, Hollis Wong-Wear emerged from the independent hip hop scene in Seattle and has become an in-demand songwriter in her current home of Los Angeles. Alongside her music, Hollis is an impassioned advocate for empowered creativity, a Google Next Gen Policy Leader, and is a frequent featured speaker on the intersection of art, activism, and creators' rights.

 

About Dresage:

Keeley Bumford is an artist/producer/composer based in Los Angeles. Through her main project Dresage, she creates lush synth and orchestral musings, allowing herself the freedom to inhabit many genres, from dreamy synthwave to indie art pop. She has credits as a producer & composer having recently written/produced & performed five original songs as well as co - scoring the original Hulu/Blumhouse film, My Valentine, from the “IntoThe Dark” anthology series. She was in the beloved YouTube series“4 Producers 1 Sample'' with Andrew Huang, and actively works within the film/tv sync world with recent placements from Apple, Netflix, UNIQLO, Nintendo, Disney and more. While sculpting songs that ponder feminism & mental health, Bumford is most passionate about spreading the autonomy of self- recording and production to women,BIPOC, and folks along the gender and socio-economic spectrums who have been historically kept out of such spaces. She regularly collaborates with femme-driven initiatives to bring more equity & training to upcoming producers.

 

 

Hollis Wong-Wear on the web:

https://shorefire.com/roster/hollis-wong-wear

https://holliswongwear.com/

https://twitter.com/holliswongwear?lang=en

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS3brQZ6D0WGxFRxCE2tv1w

https://www.facebook.com/holliswongwear/

https://www.instagram.com/holliswongwear/?hl=en

 

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