The recording project of Toronto-based artist Aidan Belo, His His makes an acoustic-based indie folk music. Belo started the project after leaving his home in Toronto during the pandemic, relocating to his family’s farm in the countryside. The move meant living at a different speed to the usual urban lifestyle, with days spent looking after animals and working the land, and something of the simple, sincere style of the His His sound captures this mood. A return to uncomplicated things. A search for something earnest and true.
Belo has released several singles in the past few months, each developing this aesthetic. The warm and reflective ‘Matador’ introduced the wistful tones, ‘Winter Journal’ offered a more morose edge, while ‘Sweet Company’ blended this melancholy and nostalgia into something searching and fond. Songs exploring both the past and the future, and how our idea of one shapes the other.
Today we’re delighted to share ‘Home Home’, a brand new single directly inspired by Belo’s return to the farm where he grew up. The track was recorded with a simple setup in an old barn, the ideal location to capture the His His sound, and the result is the warmest and most intimate song to date. Lush vocals swirl with tumbling guitar in unhurried rhythms as Belo sings of uncomplicated days. Again the track holds up the present as a kind of intersection between the past and future, Belo’s prior experiences informing the dreams of what might come next.
I want to live, live live
live right here
I want to feel, feel, feel,
feel the air
