Winsome Kind is thinking a lot about home these days.
The husband-wife music duo — better known as Coquitlam native Scott Perrie and Leora Joy Perrie — are currently camped out with family in Saskatoon, where Scott is in the touring production of Circle Game: Reimagining the Music of Joni Mitchell.
The prairie home they’re at has some space for their two young sons to bounce around — a luxury, given they live in a cramped, one-bedroom condo in East Vancouver.
But, next week, they’ll hit the road again to visit family in Regina — Leora Joy’s hometown — to officially launch their sophomore album, appropriately titled We Call It Home, that drops Friday.
At the end of the month, they’ll be back home — just in time for their B.C. album release party at St. James Hall in Vancouver on Sept. 8.
A Centennial secondary graduate (class of 2001), Scott said they wanted to highlight home in their new music to reflect their growing family.
In June, the pair unveiled the video for their first single off the album that featured the musicians with their boys in Mundy Park, in Coquitlam; the feel-good tune, also called We Call It Home, was named on CBC’s “25 New Songs For Your Wedding Playlist.”
But their nine indie-folk tracks also speak of their home of Canada, in a broader sense. “We are so fortunate to live here and to contribute to something that’s greater and push for a better home,” he said.
The sound on the new album is more sparse from their 2014 debut, Scott said.
Through live shows in promoting the first album, Winsome Kind discovered less was more. “Just the two of us singing is magic,” he said.
Still, that’s not to say the new album doesn’t have musical layering.
The Capilano University Theatre Program grad also provides pop elements with an electric guitar to give some edge to the work, which was done in collaboration with Tom Dobrzanski of Said the Whale fame.
As for his next projects, Scott will keep his finger in the theatre world in Vancouver.
In January and February, Circle Game will be remounted at the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver; he’s also in an Arts Club Theatre touring production in the new year.
• To download a copy of We Call It Home on its release date of Aug. 24, visit winsomekind.com.
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