| Chloë March / Music Blog |  | | New album 'Divining' Released 28 November 2008 | I'm very excited to have finished 'Divining' after three years of recording and producing ~ it's been a long, rewarding and sometimes completely frustrating journey, but I'm really pleased with the result. I worked on a lot of multi-tracking with intricate detail going on and loads of vocal harmonies. But also, for four of the twelve tracks I really pared down and just worked with voice, found-sounds and touches of piano or electronics.
I was inspired by water in all it's forms and in different contexts - so I've written a song of swimming in a moat inspired by 'I Capture the Castle' by Dodie Smith, a lament for Anne Boleyn being rowed down the Thames to her death, a song inspired by the Bernini sculpture 'The Ecstasy of St Theresa' a 'river of stone' and others featuring sea angels, soft summer rain, melting ice dryads, dark rivers of love and loss and one earthy resentful wolf.
The result is a kind of shimmery 'dream-pop' but with an almost classical and ballad element to it - my influences are eclectic - Kate Bush, Jane Siberry, Suzanne Vega, pet shop boys, Imogen Heap, Ravel, Steve Reich, Gabriel Yared, Vaughan Williams, it's a long list and could go on a long time - but each song tells it's own story with it's own soundscape. I don't sing with an american accent, so I think that's partly why I've been compared to Elizabeth Fraser and Vashti Bunyan. I love to write interesting, metaphorical lyrics full of imagery and I usually start with the words and build the song up around them.
'Divining' will first be available from www.chloemarch.co.uk sold as a CD with a gorgeous 12~page booklet with all the lyrics and original drawings. It'll then be available as downloads over the internet including here at ithinkmusic. Tracks are now playing/rotating at www.myspace.com/chloemarch
Thanks for reading this and hope you enjoy if you have a listen. | | 2008-11-20 09:53:41 | | | Snowdrop.... | I'm an Independent musician/composer/singer-songwriter based in the U.K - - the album 'Snowdrop' that's for sale here was first released in 2004 on Powderkeg Records.
myspace is my main portal with fans and listeners (www.myspace.com/chloemarch) and I've been posting new material there quite frequently as I'm currently writing and producing a new album. Although I always start with the piano, as that's my main instrument, I've been experimenting more and more with vocals being at the heart and starting point of the song - I feel a very strong connection to the english landscape and to history and myth and that's what's been emerging on this new album. For example, there's a song I've just finished called 'Lollen' - my lament for Anne Boleyn as sung by imaginary women rowing down the Thames - it's all interweaving vocal lines, with a melody trying to break through - I wanted it to sound like an old song that already existed. Then there are more fully scored, big, harmonically lush songs that are more in the vein of the song 'the fisherman's house' on the 'Snowdrop' album. This new album is inspired by water in all it's forms and should be ready for release by Spring 2008 - release dates and more info all on myspace and my website www.chloemarch.co.uk
Anyway - I hope you enjoy 'Snowdrop' | | 2008-01-14 10:17:15 | | | :* snow kiss |
I wrote 'Snow Kiss' a few weeks ago when I was dreamily longing for that kind of frost, ice and sparkling snow that we used to get before global warming ~ you know, when the ice used to be inches thick on the inside of the windows in the morning and you could use icicles as a great big set of bell chimes like Pingu... I thought perhaps it was just going to rain drably for a few months before spring - but then, when the song was finished this week, there was the frost - so beautiful and reassuring....I was on the train on one of those really frosty days, watching the landscape go by, with the sun shining that low slanting light and the shadowy muddy corners of the fields still sharp with ice. I love that.
Once when it was very wintry one night, my dad took us all to a field where the flood water had frozen over and we played ice hockey on it using a shoe polish tin and big sticks.... took some brandy along too and fell around in the freezing starlight..... I really want to do that again one day.....
Anyway, it's basically a romantic offering of a song. I love christmas, it's lights and potent combination of rituals ~ it's a big old paradox going on, for me anyway ~ but I do really love hanging on to the old fantasies that it evokes..... | | 2008-01-07 18:27:58 | | BLOG ARCHIVE
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