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TORONTO SINGER-SONGWRITER TO 
RELEASE NEW PROJECT IN EARLY 2022

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"I bring myself right to the edge of my seat
And my fingers grip the books in my lap that he lent me
I start to fidget with the page corners and think
That it’s a fine line between love and retreat"
- Sarah Hiltz in Love and Retreat

TORONTO, ON – November 23, 2021 – Today, Toronto-based singer-songwriter, Sarah Hiltz, resorts to Love & Retreat - her new single, which will be featured on an upcoming album, Calm Fury. Set for release early 2022, the project embraces and grapples with the topic of anger in layered, raw artistry. Love & Retreat  draws from the experience of fraught communication, using the setting of heated arguments and discussions, making this catalytic track the apex of the album as a whole. Listen here and watch the visualizer here.

"That experience, paired with a few other events, inspired me to create this project, because I realized I actually don’t know how to express anger in a healthy way, no one ever taught me how to do that," Sarah adds. "But I think it’s in our closest relationships that it could make the deepest impact, if we could learn how to better be angry with each other."

Sarah has dedicated a period of deep research around anger and its various origins and connections. Through interviewing experts, friends, family, and fellow artists to absorbing literature, articles and other sources of media, she is pairing this new collection of songs with The FuryPod, her ancillary podcast series, that dives deeper into the topic. Listen to the first episode here featuring a conversation about the way anger shows up, and is worked out, in the body.

“During the research stage, one of my interviewees made an interesting comment when we spoke, wondering if the automation of labour and general daily tasks might be contributing to our collective struggle to express anger, that maybe doing repetitive motion things with the body was sort of a built-in way of dealing with our anger, and with its removal, there are less things serving that function in our lives,” Sarah says. 

Love & Retreat  features vocals, piano and acoustic guitar by Sarah Hiltz,  with drums by Charlotte Cornfield, bass by Connor Walsh, vibraphone and tenor glockenspiel by Bruce Cawdron, piano and additional vocals by Colleen Brown.

Engage in sonic studies from Sarah Hiltz and learn more about her career to date below.

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About Sarah Hiltz
Sarah Hiltz is a contemporary folk artist based in Toronto. Her current project has her researching the ways Canadians experience, express and suppress anger in modern society, especially women, and creating a song cycle in response. 

Sarah’s last album, Beauty In The Blue, compiled songs and stories culled from her multiple journeys across Canada as a travelling musician on VIA Rail’s passenger train, “The Canadian." Beauty in the Blue features lush, nuanced vocals and jazz-influenced songwriting.

Sarah has independently released three full-length albums and two EPs since 2009. Her work over the last decade as a talented singer-songwriter has landed her Folk Music Ontario’s Songs From The Heart Award (Political Category), opening slots for Canadian icons Gordon Lightfoot and Ron Hynes, Top 3 placement in a nation-wide music competition (She’s The One), a Best Folk Album nomination (Toronto Independent Music Awards) and earned her an invitation to give a TEDx talk in 2014.