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'Heartwood' - new album from Sora (May 04, 2009) There’s something about Sora’s achingly beautiful voice that immediately lifts you out of yourself and delivers your senses to a different world. This is a world where she adds touching personal stories to sweeping melodies to build towers and dungeons of emotion in your mind. There’s so much depth and breadth of music and narrative in her new album ‘Heartwood’ that you could travel for miles in its embrace.
Alternatively (and recommended) you sit down with an hour to spare, lights out, candle flickering and bathe in the pure sanctity and intensity of voice and lyrics. Personally, I’d go for the latter or you will miss so much. The eponymous ‘Heartwood’ opens the album, and transcends song to become an anthem to a soul coming home. From the first note ‘Hurricane’ is full of foreboding, its lyrics expressing the search for truth and need for solace. ‘Light’ by contrast is a gentle cry for freedom, with a touch or pure beauty. Other gems exist in ‘The Juniper’ and ‘Madron Well’ as they ask you to join the mystery of the natural world. Here are songs that circle and soar. Here are emotions that rise and fall. Here is an intuitive feel for story and composition. Here are lyrics that lift and reflect. Here are ideas expressed by a voice that touches your soul. ‘Heartwood’ is clearly Sora’s labour of love – listen and you will love it too.
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‘Heartwood’ is a collection of faultless songs that reflect intense,
haunting stories of love, anguish, pain and hope – written and delivered so everyone
can share in the emotion and identify with the message. Of course, you could
listen while you do something else and just enjoy a balm of soothing sound
washing around your ears.