My new live single – ‘Where the Rivers Meet’ – released on July 12th, 2024.
New music video – 

About the song

I wrote this song while spending some time in the Kootenays in BC in the summer of 2019. I was in one of my favourite places on Earth and surrounded by towering mountains, breathless forests, cool lakes and rushing rivers. The song captures my love of the natural world. And, it’s a love song and wanting so badly to get another chance, and to do right with the one you love.

 

I was hearing so much at the time about the devastating fires in Australia and California. Like this year and every year since 2019, the fires were also raging in BC and other parts of Canada. We have had so many impactful and heartbreaking wildfire seasons in BC and sadly this trend is continuing year after year. In ‘Rivers’, there is an expression of grief and loss and a lament for how we are impacted by the marginalization and destruction of nature.  My love of the landscape, mountains, rivers, and forests are ever-present here in the melody and the lyrics. And, it’s a love song at heart…A call to action to make things right…wanting so badly to get another chance to make things right.

 

WTRM is one of the songs on my last album that deals with a sense of grief and loss in multiple ways/many layers.  There’s the loss of the natural or the external world and the loss of the spiritual or internal human world.  Our energy and spirits are impacted by the marginalization and destruction of nature.  Everything is connected and we have experienced a loss of connection.  The beauty we experience in the natural world is also reflected in us.

 

This song is also a call to action (as many of my songs are these days) to make things right NOW. Since writing this song, my perspective has shifted from one of grief and fear to action and urgent optimism. I am defiantly hopeful that we (the collective we) can start a revolution to slow down out of control bullet train of human civilization. I truly believe we can. And, I believe that love is the only revolution that this world needs.

You talk about revolution
Love is the only revolution
This world needs.

Performed by: Kele Fleming and band, Nov 2020
Vocals: Kele Fleming and Aaron Trory
Acoustic guitar: Kele
Mandolin: Scott Fletcher
Bass: Aaron Trory
Organ: Ron Yamauchi
Drums: Tony Lee

Music Credits:
Music and Lyrics: Kele Fleming
Engineer, mixer: Sheldon Zaharko, Zed Productions
Mastered: Andrew Downton, Railtown Mastering

Single cover – Kele Fleming