It Started in the Garden

by Elise Boulanger

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Boulanger’s first music video, “It Started in the Garden” (2021), is dark and bestows a growing awareness about the importance of biodiversity. “It’s a moody love story of when you do something you love with someone you love and then they turn around and do it with someone else,” explains Boulanger. Visually, one witnesses choreography in intoxicating gardens and roaming wolves in Canada’s wild Pacific forests. Audibly, the listener is kidnapped by shimmering and tormented string passages fit with howling vocals.

With an unwavering passion for taking care of the environment, Boulanger is collaborating with environmental organizations to raise awareness about the indelible importance of biodiversity in the face of climate change. With the lyrics of “Nootka Roses” and “Ivy” she communicates about native and invasive plant species so that we can all learn and live in a more resilient and supportive way.

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It started in the garden
It started in the trees
You took me to the garden
And you took me to the trees

Put feathers in your pockets
You showed me ancient trees
I told you I was dangerous,
Yet you still devoured me

CHORUS
If you hear them calling,
The wolves around your knees
They remember how you fed me
Nootka Roses in the trees

Latency is ringing,
But the flowers are still sweet
I no longer hear you singing,
You no longer long for me

It ended in the garden
It ended in the trees
You took her to the garden
And you took her under the trees

CHORUS

Soon the trees will take you
While your ivy clings to me
Wrapped up in what was before
Pining melancholy soar

I will taste all of the roses,
Nootka Roses, sweet sweet roses
I will taste all of the roses,
Hoping that they will help heal me

You can find me in the garden
You can find me in the trees
Eating roses in the garden
Hoping that you will come kiss me

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released September 22, 2021
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by: Corwin Fox of Hidden Well Studio
Musicians: Anatol McGinnis & Natasha Hoskins
Music & Lyrics: Elise Boulanger

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Elise Boulanger Nanaimo, British Columbia

Champer-Pop artist Elise Boulanger is a haunting vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer hailing from the Coast Salish lands of Vancouver/ Nanaimo, Canada. She creates cinematic dreamscapes of ethereal vocals, resonant strings and rhythmic energies. ... more

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