QUINQUIS

Morwreg

A haunting love song between a mermaid and a sailor. “Morwreg” is Breton for mermaid, and the song was inspired by the women of Ushant and the sailors who arrived for a few weeks and went away for months; the legend says some of the island’s women had a mermaid as an ancestor. The video went up on November 26, 2024, ahead of the album eor (Mute, May 9, 2025), where it is track 6.

QUINQUIS is Émilie Quinquis, a Breton producer, singer and songwriter who lives on Ushant Island, off the coast of Brittany. From eor, Mute, May 9, 2025, produced by Émilie Quinquis and Gareth Jones, mixed by Jones at Strongroom, London, mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road; recorded on Ushant Island. Video made late at night and early in the morning by QUINQUIS, with Nikola Kokotović and many people from the Clockwork Voltage Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Sources: Mute. Photograph: Admiralty Chart No. 65, Brest and the Ushant Islands, surveyed by Captain Hurd in 1807 and published on January 11, 1816, by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (public domain). Royal Museums Greenwich (B8780), via Wikimedia Commons. Not to be used for navigation.