Very talented Chicago singer and songwriter, as well as poet Jamila Woods, is back and after a long hiatus she delivers her brand new single, Tiny Garden. That features fellow great singer and songwriter, duendita. The soulfully elegant and ethereal new record finding Woods singing about a love that she shows all her flaws and scars to go with all her good, so closely. Just like an intimately close tiny garden. What an intimate love is to her and duendita also adding her perspective with her guest feature.
Woods also debuting through Vevo earlier today a just as ethereal and intimately close accompanying video that she co-directed with VAM STUDIO. Which is also her directorial debut and was shot at the unceded ancestral lands of the Chumash and Ventureño Chumashan peoples. The cultural, spiritual and environmental heritage of that region the perfect backdrop to so beautifully capture the intimacy of the record and bring it even more to life.
The new video and single also come on the heels of Woods announcing her long-awaited and highly-anticipated third album, Water Made Us. Which will be released on Oct. 13th.
Woods having the following to say in a statement about the new album, ”On her expansive new album Water Made Us, Chicago musician and poet Jamila Woods shines anew as she asks the question, what does it mean to fully surrender into love? The album’s title is a subtle reference to the Toni Morrison quote “All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” It’s this sentiment that acts as a pillar for the album’s arc. Water Made Us reminds us that at its best love is a warm, still ocean. And at its worst love can be a riptide that takes us so far away from ourselves we can hardly find our way back, hardly even remember how to swim. And yet Jamila surrenders to this surf because maybe even the most painful endings can in fact be an invitation that calls her back home, back to shore, back to herself.”