Canadian singer-songwriter Luca Fogale masterfully embodies the power of beauty and sincerity in his lyrics and musical instincts, notable in his songs I Don’t Want to Lose You Now and Ashes
There’s an exquisite and consistent voice and heart present in all of Luca Fogale’s work. This is something particularly notable in a time where trend-chasing, polarization, and artistic transgression and compulsive experimentation seem to be the focus.
Fogale, the gifted West coast Canadian phenomenon, seems to ignore all of this, living instead in sincerity and beauty without any hint of moving on from it.
There’s something rare about it.
The song that helped launch him into millions of listeners, I Don’t Want to Lose You, is a longing, haunting, honest song of a lover bearing the weight of the lover’s wounded heart that keeps showing up inside the sacredness of their relationship.
It viscerally expresses an experience many of us have had: finding someone perfectly, wonderfully lovable, but incapable of allowing that love in.
It captures the distinct ache that sets in when we realize the limited contours of our own capacity for love, and its ultimately finite power in relation to another. The other must come to us also, or we will lose them.
Fogale intuitively grasps deep, abstract themes that come through as much in his adept, warm vocal quality and musical and production instincts as in his lyrics. But the lyrics themselves beautifully balance poetic sight with poetic noticing of grounded reality.
Take for instance his masterful weaving of metaphor tied up in the structure of the song itself in a fascinating fourth-wall meta narrative, all while hinging it back to the almost shocking practical advice of getting a beer out of the fridge to take the edge off of the compulsive, spiraling pain to help open the heart:
I can always feel it: when you’re getting set to run
Like you’re halfway through the chorus
And you think the song is done
But baby, take a minute,
And take a beer out from the fridge
Maybe we can try this time to make it past the bridge
‘Cause I don’t want to lose you now, or ever..
This is, of course, just the beginning of his library of thoughtful songs, where Fogale explores authentic love, failure, hope, questions of faith and belief, and an ultimate, intensive desire to see into the soul of another. One of the outstanding lines is in his song Ashes, where a backing vocal comes in gradually out of the shadows of the production texture into the fore, increasing in volume and passion as the song progresses to its final climax: Love carries all of us home.
These songs are truly precious things—real beauty in a modern medium. It helps remind us of the capacity in artistic expression as well as the human spirit in love.
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