BASIA BULAT - HEART OF MY OWN (LP)

Basia Bulat Heart Of My Own On Vinyl LP + MP3 Coupon! 

After over a year of touring that took Basia across Europe, Australia, Canada and the United States several times over in support of Oh, My Darling, she said goodbye to the road, took her new songs up in her arms and found a home for them on tape. Recorded with Howard Bilerman at the mighty Hotel2Tango studio in Montreal, Quebec, nearly all the songs on Heart of My Own were written while on the road: traveling between cities, crossing the Canadian prairies, searching for a place to stop in the Nevada desert, trailing through the Smoky Mountains, standing in the bright dusk of a summer night in the Yukon. Perhaps most surprising was the strong influence her short time in the Yukon had on this album. Basia spent five days and nights in Dawson City, where for the first time she experienced true silence. “I felt my mind was overwhelmed with ideas. It had been a long-time dream of mine to make it to the Yukon, so to finally accomplish that, and for it to be possible because of my music, was also a very overwhelming thing.”

The instrumentation on Heart of My Own is a lot more varied than Oh, My Darling, notes Basia. “I think it is at times extremely sparse and, well, spacious, with big choirs singing, and then it gets really dense with really spirited and rolling drums, and I think I even managed to pull off a Johnny Cash–inspired country song.” She plays autoharp, guitar, piano, organ, pianoette, banjo, ukulele, bass and of course, sings; her brother and many dear friends, old and new, play everything else. The strings chase after each other as though coming down a mountain. The autoharp’s versatility is explored, fitting just as well in a soul song as a folk song, its sound by turns charming and warm, then icy cold and precise. The horns mean business, but still have a sense of humor! But most important to Basia is the spirit that has been captured here. There is a determination in these songs. They are at times about a broken heart, a careless heart, a faithful heart, and a hopeful heart, but above all, a wandering heart.

Basia Bulat Heart Of My Own Track Listing

1.  Go On
2.  Run
3.  Sugar and Spice
4.  Gold Rush
5.  Heart Of My Own
6.  Sparrow
7.  If Only You
8.  I’m Forgetting Everyone
9.  The Shore
10. Once More, For The Dollhouse
11. Walk You Down
12. If It Rains