HEATHER NOVA – 300 DAYS AT SEA

With her eighth studio album 300 Days at Sea Heather Nova has no doubt her best album since Oyster (1994) made. Not only the music is beautiful, the story behind the numbers and the making of the album is impressive.

A fisherman, also a big fan of the music of Heather Nova, was the wreck of the ship 'Moon' found, the boat that Heather and her family during her childhood years had sailed and how they lived. He took Heather and left her to see the wreck, then the compass of the ship to dive and to hand it to Heather, as a reminder of the wonderful years on this boat, the self-realized dream of her parents. In a sense, the symbolic circle: the compass was again 'come home'.

Clearly inspired by this special event Heather began writing and laying the foundation for 300 Days at Sea, a very personal and even spiritual album about her childhood, loss, memories, hopes and (survival) power of man. She found that the new songs a band needed to found passion even more stress and made contact with the musicians and producers (including her husband Felix Tod) which also Oyster and Siren (1998) were active.

Not only the compass came "home", Heather decided to take the new album in Bermuda to take her home, with the murmur of the waves and sea in the background, as a sort of homecoming after twenty years of touring. 300 Days at Sea is completely contained by solar energy. Sometimes they had to wait until the batteries were charged before they could start.

The results are impressive! The album opens with Beautiful Ride, a great song with a positive outlook on (love) life, with all its ups and downs, as instructive trip. The subsequent first single Higher Ground is inspired by surfer / journalist Matt George after the tsunami in Indonesia in 2004, along with friends, including a doctor, a boat hired to help people on the islands who were deprived of help. Stop The Fire a powerful, politically tinged song, an indictment against the increasing violence and aggression in Bermuda. The absolute highlight of the album's Do Something That Scares You, sung with an intensity that since Sugar (live album Blow) was not matched. Heather turns both lyrically and vocally inside this spiritual song about guts to find yourself by not previously entered paths in life or as here even rock climbing, "I feel myself becoming myself ', it sounds enlightening.

The ballads on this album are great again. The 'angelic voice' Heather excels especially on theme song The Good Ship 'Moon' and emotional, but hopeful Everything Changes. "Everything changes, changes for the good, as the pain hurts like it should", Heather sings in the chorus but really any sense in this song is lyrically touch.

Save a Little Piece of Tomorrow, they even played during her theater tour through the Netherlands last year and I'd Rather Be, with the clear text 'If you want me, you got to take me as I am, "are two other, fine examples of the recovered (write) inspiration. 300 Days at See also sounds as a whole as a clock and as a house, to also symbolically exit. The "floating house Moon 'is or has been lost, it is a great album that yielded Heather even years to come!