PHOTO CREDITS: Lindsay Duncan

INTRODUCING CANADIAN ALT POP ARTIST 

AYSANABEE

NEW SINGLE ‘HOME’ RELEASED 21ST MAY

TAKEN FROM THE UPCOMING ALBUM 

EDGE OF THE EARTH

DUE 20TH JUNE ON ISHKŌDÉ RECORDS

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21st May 2025

Following a standout UK performance at London’s Green Note yesterday, two-time JUNO award-winning alternative pop artist Aysanabee (pronounced ace-in-abbey) releases his moving new single ‘Home’. Co-written with long-time collaborator Kyla Charter and Scott McCannell, the track navigates new beginnings and captures Aysanabee’s penchant for commanding and rousing soulful vocals. The track is taken from his upcoming album Edge Of The Earth, released 20th June via Ishkōdé Records and available to pre-order here.

“Home was written by two friends going through a similar experience”, comments Aysanabee on the track “This song is rooted in love and loss, becoming the throughline between impermanence and acceptance. It’s an anthem about moving on”.

Aysanabee is a two-time JUNO award-winning alternative indie artist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and singer-songwriter. He is Oji-Cree, Sucker Clan of Sandy Lake First Nation, a remote fly-in community in the far reaches of Northwestern Ontario, Canada. He now calls Toronto home and began creating music under his mother’s maiden name when moments of stillness allowed him to slow down and create music that, he says, more accurately represents himself as an artist. With a swirling mix of indie, soul, and electronic sounds, and pulse-quickening fingerpicking, the music is both hypnotic and melodious. 

On March 23, 2024, Aysanabee made history as the first Indigenous artist to win the JUNO Awards for Alternative Album of the Year and the coveted Songwriter of the Year, for his EP Here and Now. 

With Here and Now (Oct 2023), Aysanabee moved in a new direction toward his own experiences of love’s end and his process of unflinching self-examination. His debut album, Watin (Nov 2022), named after his grandfather, includes ten tracks and nine interludes featuring the voice of his grandfather that combines music and journalism with artistry and expression.

His music has garnered an extensive list of accolades and support. In March 2023, he became the first Indigenous artist to hit #1 on Mediabase Canada's Alternative Rock chart and was later shortlisted for the 2023 Polaris Prize. Recently touring Australia with Kim Churchill, he has performed over 300 shows across Canada and globally, including 2024 shows at AmericanaFestUK, Tallinn Music Week, WOMEX, The Great Escape, Reeperbahn, and SXSW Austin & Sydney.

Aysanabee’s upcoming second full-length album Edge of the Earth features a collection of songs he says didn’t quite fit into previous projects, songs written over the years Aysanabee calls a “life’s mixtape”. But he says that becomes the throughline of this record. 

Aysanabee reflects on this: “I’ve always taken a very personal approach when it comes to making music, finding a meaning or lesson in life and filtering it down to a few words on paper. These songs each share the commonality of leaving something, someone, some feeling or some piece of yourself behind in order to keep moving forward, sometimes I justified this by telling myself it is what I needed to survive, other times I told myself this is just the curse of making art, but in some cases, it’s harder to admit that I was being selfish. There are moments in the album that force me to come to terms with the latter, to reflect, face myself and learn in order to move forward in a better way. At one point I thought I would call the album reflections, the moments that lead you to the edge of a reality, the edge of a moment, or in this case, metaphorically, the edge of the earth, and I look down thinking to myself, am I ready to take a leap of faith and have I learned enough to find my way?”

It is the loss of people, the loss of self, the loss of a previous life and the thoughtfulness of reflection and openness to accept what comes next. 

In Aysanabee’s own words, “To reach a dream, any dream, takes will, sacrifice and reflection. Each of these songs connects with at least one of these themes.”