"The song 'Colours' is a gentle reflection of love and bliss in the everyday. It speaks of both giving and receiving love. It brings to mind the 1960's era of free love, and with a female singer it has a new voice. And now we're in a new era of consciousness, expansion, and awakening to the importance of looking out for each other and self-love!" - Erika Spring
Erika Spring
ARTIST
Why Instant Love?
Erika Spring
Erika Spring is a singer, musician and artist based in NYC. As one-third of synth pop trio Au Revoir Simone, she released four albums and toured extensively for a decade. In 2012, she debuted as a solo artist with a self-titled EP on Cascine, and in 2016, she joined forces with Jenny Lewis and Tennessee Thomas to form the indie supergroup Nice as Fuck (NAF), with whom she released an LP and performed on CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Her voice was featured on dance floor hit “Paris (Friendly Fires Aeroplane Remix),” on a variety of other recordings by artists such as Chromeo and Delorean, and in The Octave of Visible Light: A Meditation Nightclub, an installation by artist Lia Chavez. Many of her songs have been featured in film and tv soundtracks and she is seen performing with Au Revoir Simone in two episodes of 2017's Twin Peaks: The Return.
Erika is also a Reiki practitioner and teacher and she loves making connections between her music and her work with energy and the healing arts.
SONG
The Original
Lyrics
"Colours" by Donovan
Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair
In the mornin' when we rise
In the mornin' when we rise
That's the time, that's the time
I love the best
Blue's the colour of the sky
In the mornin' when we rise
In the mornin' when we rise
That's the time, that's the time
I love the best
Green's the colour of the sparklin' corn
In the mornin' when we rise
In the mornin' when we rise
That's the time, that's the time
I love the best
Mellow is the feeling that I get
When I see her, mm hmm
When I see her, mm hmm
That's the time, that's the time
I love the best
Freedom is a word I rarely use
Without thinkin', mm hmm
Without thinkin', mm hmm
Of the time, of the time
When I've been loved
