Morgan Doctor returns with "Saplings," the latest single from her deeply affecting album Last Flight Home. A masterful confluence of atmospheric textures and evocative rhythms, "Saplings" builds on Morgan's signature skill of turning profound feeling into sound.
A Juno and Dora-nominated artist in her own right, Morgan has built an impressive career across live performance, film scoring, and studio work. Having worked with music luminaries like Andy Kim, Sandra Bernhard, Ron Sexsmith, and Kevin Drew's Broken Social Scene, her artistry is vast and intimate.
"Saplings" is a haunting investigation of fragility and resilience and is the companion to Last Flight Home, an album inextricably linked to the score she wrote for director Ondi Timoner's equally powerful documentary of the same name. The film focuses on a family's final days spent with their patriarch, an experience that hit Morgan deeply. The result is a work that captures the grief of loss but also the hushed, unshakeable strength in memory.
"Matter" is the medium, and "Saplings" is the breath; with every note, it floats with a sense of weightlessness, like leaves in a light wind, ephemeral, fragile, and profoundly expressive. It's a song that demands to be felt, inviting you through a contemplative space where music transforms into memory and feeling.
Morgan Doctor's gift for creating soundscapes that hang in the air long after the last note has evaporated is on full display in "Saplings." With this new release, she further demonstrates that she is pushing the envelope of what an instrumental song can feel like, and this album is proof of that virtuosity.