Raised By Swans is the recording alias of Canadian songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Eric Howden. Fiercely independent in all aspects of his music, spanning five full-length albums and two decades thus far, his haunting, contemplative songs have been described as evoking “both mournful and triumphant emotions” (Exclaim!), and have been featured in international film and television, including Academy Award and Palm d’Or nominated director Atom Egoyan’s Chloe (2010), starring Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore.

Raised By Swans Is The Name Of A Man, Volume 2: Run With The Silent Wildfires (2023), is the latest of five albums Howden has written, arranged, performed, produced and independently released as Raised By Swans; his past LPs are Codes and Secret Longing(2005), No Ghostless Place (2010), Öxnadalur (2014), and Raised By Swans Is The Name Of A Man, Volume 1 (2021). Over the eight years spent creating Volumes 1 and 2, he performed concerts in twelve countries, managed a tiny harbourside grocery shop in the most remote municipality in Iceland, and planted 10,000 baby birch trees in the hills of Öxnadalur (a valley in North Iceland), all by himself.

Currently based in London, Ontario, Raised By Swans will be touring in Europe in the fall of 2025. His latest single, “locket from a wreck”, was released on May 7th, 2024.

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