Following the release of her stunning recent single ‘Helio’ earlier this year, CHARLOTTE DOS SANTOS shares an incendiary new remix of the track courtesy of fellow Norwegian act: SASSY 009.
‘Helio’ is one of the many highlights of her acclaimed recent EP Harvest Time, out now. ‘Helio’ – a word derived from the ancient Greek god of the sun – is a cosmic, strings synth-laden baroque bop that confronts existential questions about solitude, flipping the idea of a love song on its head and turning affection inwards. Sonically enduring and seamlessly traversing genres with Charlotte’s feather-light vocals layered atop.
Of ‘Helio’ Charlotte says: “‘Helio’ is about self love. It is about the power we hold within ourselves and the fact that we truly only need ourselves to be happy. Helio is a result of my obsession with the universe. Cosmology, astronomy and astrology is something I can wonder and read about for hours. I have always been like this. When I was writing Helio I first started writing the song with Helio representing someone else, someone I couldn’t live without- but then I realized I was tired of writing like that because it’s simply not true- we don’t need anyone to be our center, we are our center first and foremost. So I flipped the narrative resulting in Helio representing myself, and the love for oneself.
Charlotte’s latest EP, Harvest Time also features the title-track – a single which arrived as her first release since signing to Because Music (Christine and the Queens, Justice, Metronomy). The EP follows on from her hugely critically acclaimed 2017 EP: Cleo.
With a string of remixes planned for reveal in the coming weeks, standby for further innovative remixes to land imminently.
Charlotte Dos Santos exists in a lane all her own. As a fiercely independent producer, singer, composer and arranger, she takes full ownership over her art, imbuing it with feather-light vocals one moment and a rumbling piano line the next. Her warm, emotive and jazz-inflected songwriting weaves seamlessly between themes of identity, womanhood and human connection.
Charlotte grew up naturally dissolving boundaries, raised in a small town outside Oslo by her Norwegian mother and Brazilian father, her parents’ tastes exposed her to everything from jazz, hip-hop and Latin rhythms to flamenco, North African instrumentation and intricate Arabic melodies. Since debuting with hugely critically acclaimed 2017 EP Cleo, she’s earned recognition from the likes of The Fader, Pitchfork, Bandcamp and Pigeons & Planes, recorded a coveted COLORS session, been a Newcomer of the Year Norwegian Grammy Award nominee and picked up co-signs from Raphael Saadiq, Outkast’s Big Boi and others.