Bay Area singer-songwriter Heather
Normandale has released her new full-length album, “Trembling
Water.”
Bay Area singer-songwriter Heather
Normandale has released her new full-length album, “Trembling
Water.” The record includes ten tracks comprising approximately 50
minutes of music. It defies pigeonholing with deft movements of style
and tone from one track to the next, but retains a folk-music purity
from start to finish, the primary instrument being Normandale's
charming, caring yet devil-may-care voice and attitude, and being
chiefly accompanied by her trusty (and impeccably plucked) banjo,
guitar, or steel mandolin. Other instrumentation includes but is not
hardly limited to, the cello, the marimba, the Jew's harp, and –
unless a music journalist's ears can be so deceived – a house cat.
The stylistic fare of “Trembling
Water” ranges from bluegrass folk in the vein of Nick Drake's more
tender moments to extremely rhythmic, almost tribal acoustic pop, if
such a sound can be imagined. Normandale's natural and unpremeditated
singing, the foremost consistency and capital attraction throughout
the record (with the possible exception of some truly ingenious and
non-derivative songwriting) lies somewhere between Bjork and Angie
Hart of Frente!. Listeners will take great pleasure in hearing
startling differences from one track to the next, while enjoying also
the same excellent qualities throughout. No single track stands
absolutely out from the others, making “Trembling Water” one of
those rarest-of-rare holy grails of music appreciation: the music
album composed entirely of singles.
She writes of her artistic goals, “I began to write and sing to quell my own inner turmoil. It put order to my world in an open and whimsical way, and I noticed it soothed and inspired others as well.”
Outside her own personal endeavors,
Normandale also has humanity's inherent relationship to planet Earth
in mind. “I aspire to hone the craft of soul healing through poetry
and music,” she writes. “My latest album is devoted to nurturing
the aqueous part of our nature. Humans, as well as the earth, are
about 70% water. Something so essential to our existence that it is
constantly flowing through us deserves some attention.” In
addition, she has also in mind the water-consciousness theories of
celebrated scientist and philosopher Dr. Masaru Emoto. “I am
playing to align and beautify the water molecules of your bodies, our
rivers, oceans and rain.”
-S. McCauley
Staff Press Release Writer
MondoTunes
The LP “Trembling Water” is
distributed globally by MondoTunes (www.MondoTunes.com)
and is available at iTunes for convenient purchase and download
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ARTIST
CONTACT INFO:
thistlesnicker@gmail.com
website -
www.heathernormandale.com
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