According to Heiko Leesment, founding member and manager of Sibyl Vane, the album “Live” was recorded in January last year in Tallinn, as part of the Botik bar and garden's live music series. A total of 150 forest-green vinyl records were produced, and they never made it to retail stores. The exclusive album is hand-numbered and was only available for purchase at the album launch and at concerts, while supplies lasted. No additional pressings are planned.
The band donated the concert proceeds to the Pärnu Women’s Support Centre, whose confidential location the band personally visited.
“We were inspired by the openness and warmth with which the support centre welcomed our idea to release a benefit album,” says the band’s guitarist and songwriter Helena Randlaht. “The light we encountered there, and the kindness of the people who run it, deeply moved us.”
According to Randlaht, the centre’s director Margo Orupõld and her artist daughter Flo have done a great deal to keep the issue of domestic violence visible in Estonian society and to raise public awareness.
Thus, according to her, the album’s sales support those who don’t just talk about the issue, but work on the front lines of domestic violence every day to make the world a better place.
Johanna Roos
13/07/2022