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Heather Nova’s Isolation
Friday February 22, 2002 @ 06:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
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When
you’ve spent your youth sharing a 40-foot sailboat with four people,
you tend to value those moments of solitude. So, it’s no wonder that
Heather Nova turned to her guitar when she wanted privacy.
"That’s
when I would sit with my guitar and write songs," Nova explains. "That
would be my way of dealing with feelings or stuff I was going through."
Nova’s
songs certainly are like a musical diary, but rather than keeping it
locked away in a safe place, she’s sharing it with the world on the
March release of her third studio album, South.
Though Nova
makes her home in London, England these days, she likes to go home to
Bermuda to isolate herself from the outside world while she writes her
music.
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Nova believes in sharing her life experience
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"Writing
is a very introverted time," Nova says. "I’m very reclusive when I
write. I go somewhere, unplug the phone and sit by myself."
Nova
believes in sharing her life experience, her feelings and her dreams
through her music, knowing that there are other people who can relate
to her words.
"My songs are pieces of my personal life," she says. "I often write because I’m trying to work through something."
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Gloomy Sunday
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All
the songs on the new album are Nova’s own, with the exception of the
track "Gloomy Sunday." Nova explains that it is a song written in
Budapest in the 1940s. She initially recorded the song for a German
film a few years ago. She liked it so much that she decided to put it
on her new album.
Though that film was released exclusively in
Germany, fans will also recognize Nova’s haunting voice on the
soundtrack to I Am Sam — a collection of artists covering Beatles
songs. The project is close to Nova because she grew up listening to
classic artists like The Beatles on the deck of her parent’s sailboat.
Nova
is keeping busy these days, with the publication of her book of poetry
and art, entitled The Silent Joy, and her current five-week North
American promotional tour.
"And let me tell you, it’s just
killing me," Nova admits with a laugh. "It’s just the traveling every
day. We’re flying… sometimes it’s two flights a day."
Nova says
that she loves playing in front of a live audience but the traveling
does take its toll. But the end of the road isn’t anywhere in sight for
this songstress. After she completes her North American travels on
March 8, she’s back on the road for a month-long jaunt in Europe.
—April Labine
Article reprinted on this website courtesy of http://www.chartattack.com
Original source : http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2002/02/2209.cfm
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