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New Album

Portraits of Life and Love

The new album will be released on July 2nd and will be launched at a gig at the Rondo on that day. Click here to book tickets.

This new album of music reflects Cindy’s acoustic roots and love of harmony. With melody firmly at the heart of each well-crafted song, Cindy’s voice engages and moves the listener. Each track benefits from a different arrangement, ranging from the simplicity of ‘Autumn Morning’, just voice and piano, or ‘All Fall Apart’, voice and guitar, to tracks like ‘Falling Snow’ featuring bass, percussion, guitar, piano, cello and violin.‘ Beyond Black’, the story of a medium and inspired by Hilary Mantel’s wonderful book of the same title, has a dramatic feel, and the beautiful ‘Wild One’ reflects the albums title by telling a story, a portrait of a man, a woman, and a baby. ‘Warrior’ is about a boy going to war told from a mother’s perspective, and ‘Bats in the Belfry’ reflects the desire to escape and leave it all behind, ‘Put her in an aeroplane, send her up to the sky’ ...

‘Ne’s Perez Plus Mes Yeaux’, the only cover on the album, is a beautiful 15th century love song by Antoine Boesset: ‘I decided to put this one on because it always goes down so well whenever I include it in a live performance. It’s just such a beautiful melody’, says Cindy.

With this recording, Cindy was keen to keep a live feel and mostly recorded each vocal track in one take, quite a brave move considering how difficult it can be to leave things as they are instead of ‘perfecting’ each little nuance. ‘I was really keen not to overproduce and flatten out the sound of this album. It’s often so difficult to capture the energy of a live performance when in the studio, and there is a huge temptation to do it again in case next time it’s even better. Where do you stop? You can’t go back and do it again when performing live, so I really tried to stick that principle in the studio. It’s all about feel and energy’.

It’s Cindy’s intention, with this collection of songs, to present the listener with a refreshing change from more commercially oriented music, and to take them on a quiet little journey, with unexpected beautiful views, and the occasional twist in the road.