Heartwood : Sora

Sora : Heartwood.
Lushly evocative songstress singing music for a new world.

With its uniquely ancient to modern sound, Sora's music weaves together contemporary rock with the mystical moods of Celtic folk, medieval madrigals, and other modes of early music. The result is a heady, colorfully evocative tapestry that conjures the imagery of long ago but feels just as current as anything from the present musical landscape all the while sounding like little else on today's airwaves. Across the album's moody and atmospheric tracks Sora's heartrending soprano glides like a graceful dove through swirling mists of violin, piano, harp, synthesizer, cello, guitar, percussion, and other instruments to deliver sweeping performances. The music moves from lightness of thought and sound to richly dense soundscapes. The music is not easy to categorize, but ultimately it is about the journeys we make within ourselves.

It feels at times as if music comes not so much from within me but that is passes through me in the ways of half-remembered dreams. Yet, I feel we each are a filter to the heart of the world, we shape it, to some extent with our own experiences, perceptions and feelings. I like to think of each of these songs as filtered through my own heart, as water passes through a teabag, colored with the pieces of me. The music itself washes through me, as wind passes through the trees, but in doing so is imprinted by my spirit as it exits through my voice, my fingers, through the notes that I write. The songs are not about me, but I cannot deny that I find myself in them.

It is my belief that we are influenced by the environments in which we live. The outer world interacts with the inner, affecting thought patters, creation and consciousness. Found within the pages here are objects from my environment; that which creates the spaces I inhabit musically, emotionally, spiritually and physically. Leaves, petals, rocks, crystal; these are the heartgifts I wish to share with you.

Heartwood is the core, it is the truths we carry, it is the place of secret whisperings, it is our beginnings and endings. It is the axis upon which our lives spin. It is my most humble hope that perhaps as these songs pass through you, that you will find something of yourself within them as well.

Heartwood is an examination of the places the heart inhabits.

Songs:

1. Heartwood
2. Drift
3. Eurydice
4. Winter
5. Hurricane
6. Light
7. Twilight
8. Children Of Lir
9. The Juniper
10. The Birch's Lament
11. Madron Well

Listen to: the entire album.

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Release date: 10/28/2012
Sora lives in Alberta Canada

Tagged as: Alt Rock, Folk

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