Austin’s fast rising multilingual folk fusion group,
Ley Line, release their new single “En Busca del Agua” today on all digital platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, and more. The single was previously released as a Bandcamp exclusive with the proceeds going to support the Austin Youth River Watch, and with so much positive feedback from fans that love and resonate with the song, Ley Line decided to release it officially during the week of Earth Day.
Ley Line is hot on the heels of performing virtually at SXSW Online 2021 where they were just featured as a top SXSW pick from Bob Boilen who called the band “a super talented group” on NPR’s All Things Considered. NPR Music also included them as a SXSW pick on All Songs Considered too.
Mimicking sinuous roots extending deep into the earth,
We Saw Blue spreads and extends beyond worldly bounds. As four multilingual voices weave like twine, polyrhythmic percussion rumbles tectonic faults as nylon strings echo in a crystal-clear resonance. Every layered detail of sound holds its own on Ley Line s sophomore album.
Inspired by world travels, twin sisters Madeleine and Lydia Froncek and Austinites Kate Robberson and Emilie Basez follow 2016 s
Field Notes with an expansive exposé that traverses borders with a bared vulnerability. On opener To the Sky, baritones suspend midair as French teases a strummed bossa nova and warm lingering trumpets. Pooling a triptych, Respiração syncopates in up-note reggae, Oxum wafts West African rolling percussion, and Ciranda struts Spanish flourishes.
Four Oceans: Lydia, Madeleine, Kate, and Emilie, photographed in Austin on Nov. 13 (Photo by Shelley Hiam)
Before each performance, the four women of Ley Line huddle together onstage momentarily to catch their breath, calm down, and reconnect. The group invites audiences into this same circle, opening a space of meditative togetherness with expansive global rhythms and twining harmonies. In fact, the ritual proves essential to the Austin quartet of Kate Robberson, Emilie Basez, and twins Madeleine and Lydia Froncek.
The band, like its music, dances in a play of spontaneity and control, riding waves of serendipity while harnessing the power of four distinct voices. It s an ethos evident in their name, which evokes a spiritual connection to the natural world s deeper pulse.