Celine Cairo finds freedom by letting go of the cure in “Panacea”

Celine Cairo’s latest single "Panacea" is like walking into a silent room after a storm, it’s warm, personal, and completely human. Partly recorded on a Wurlitzer piano in her Amsterdam living room, the song finds Cairo collaborating once again with co-producer Benjamin Rheinlander and enlisting a small band of players: Bram Doreleijers on guitar, Mart Jeninga on synthesisers, Sander de Bie on piano and India Bourne’s cello adding quietly aching textures.

 

"Panacea" is a review on self-love. It’s about coming home to myself, after a really intense time. "Panacea" softly question human search for healing, suggesting sometimes freedom comes not in finding a cure but in surrendering the search altogether. It’s a melody that cuts close to the bone, particularly in a culture obsessed with self-improvement and perfection.

Bram Doreleijers’ guitar lines ripple like peaceful meditation and Jeninga’s synths, as well as Bourney’s cello, provide a gentle moving shift. The combination of Wurlitzer and piano creates a physical warmth to the record, firmly inviting you into the present. "Panacea" doesn’t provide easy answers, but it has enough of them already. In its gentle and open honesty, it seems to capture the unfamiliar and accepting ourselves as our imperfect human selves. "Panacea" is a song that sticks around long after the final note.

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