With Share Your Care, Helen Ganya reconnects with her memories, continues her mourning, and returns to her roots. Review of a sublime album.
SHARE YOUR CARE – HELEN GANYA
The dreamy and soft intro, Weera, opens the doors to the intimate world that Helen Ganya wishes to share with Share Your Care. However, on this new album, the artist not only shows her vulnerability by paying tribute to the women in her family, particularly her grandmother, but also displays strength, determination, and passion. You can feel this right from the second track, Share Your Care, where the guitars roar as her clear voice envelops us. The textures clash perfectly, and it’s a standout track. On Mekong, Helen Ganya weaves and reweaves her connection to her Thai heritage with both reverence and spirituality. From there, she isn’t afraid to reference it musically, which is evident with Fortune, preceded by Interlude 1 – Sam Law.
On Horizon, it’s mourning that she invokes, initially with the softness of her piano and voice. Then, she lets the epic take over, expanding through orchestral arrangements and increasingly prominent guitar. Electricity lingers in the air with the textures of the instrumental Morlam Plearn (Luk Khrueng Surprise). Through this, she continues her mourning—both for her grandmother and for her childhood. These memories, she turns them into joyous light and immortalises them with sound, a short excerpt, Interlude 2 – Look That Way!
Helen Ganya speaks of her relationship with her origins and her insecurities in Barn Nork, sung in Thai, before questioning the other side. She moves forward with more ethereal sounds through the synths of Hell Money. The anthem Chaiyo! continues to explore mourning and its pain, but with an optimistic and bright tone that brings her familial love to the forefront. Interlude 3 – Conversation At The Catfish Lake further confirms this with another immortalised memory. Finally, Helen Ganya closes Share Your Care with a duet. She invites Tony Njoku, whose deep yet soft voice gives Myna the contrast it needed. It’s an ending as moving as the theme of this album that ought to be listened to now!
