On 4/3, acclaimed “Inuindie” singer-songwriter Beatrice Deer will release her highly anticipated new album, Inuit Legend. The project is a portal to a wildly enchanted world largely unknown to those outside its borders as Deer reimagines a number of fables and real-life tales passed down from her ancestors, interpreting each phantasmic piece of folklore through a decidedly modern lens. The album brings a bold new vitality to its age-old stories, ultimately transmitting their transcendent wisdom to an audience that spans beyond boundaries of any kind. Ahead of the release, Beatrice Deer shared the focus track + visualizer “Falcon and the Woman.”

“‘Falcon and the Woman’ started off as a song from a vague memory I had when I was 6 or 7 years old about a legend of a falcon kidnapping a woman and the woman fleeing for her life,” she recalls. “I looked for the story while researching for ‘Inuit Legend’ but I didn’t find it, so it became my own song about surviving domestic abuse. It was empowering because it’s about freeing myself from not only the physical violence but also the mental and emotional violence that can stay with you even years after leaving the toxic relationship.”

Deer is an award-winning Inuit singer-songwriter based in Montreal. Half-Inuk and half-Mohawk, Beatrice was born and raised in Nunavik, Quebec, in the small village of Quaqtaq. Her award-winning songs are crafted upon deeply personal lyrics and blend indie rock and modern folk with traditional Inuit stories and throat singing. With its deliberate focus on stories of feminine power, Inuit Legend makes for a thrilling document of transformation and survival – a narrative closely aligned with Deer’s own journey in struggling against the extraordinary hardship endemic to her homeland of Nunavik (a historically disenfranchised region deep in the Canadian Arctic).

Photo Courtesy: Alexi Hobbs