Peeling Apples

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Peeling ApplesOpis:As a child, Athena would climb Mount Olympus, heading high above the tree line to a place of perfect serenity. One day, while still a teenager, she experienced a revelation. "As you get past the lushness it gets rocky and suddenly all you can hear is the wind. It's incredibly beautiful," she says, before laughing. "Actually, you know what it sounds exactly like? The start of Pink Floyd's 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond'" Athena is one of those people who live and breathe and think and talk about music and she writes with the same sort of direct focus. During a Sky Arts documentary made about her, legendary songwriter Chris Difford described Athena as someone who, "writes and sings from the heart. She doesn't need to be packaged by anyone she is simply and beautifully her." The songs from her new album, Peeling Apples, are just as skilled at marking the point where the personal becomes universal as they are withdrawing to where a longer, more enlightened view of human nature becomes clear. She has the same sort of clear artistic vision that marks out Norah Jones or Tori Amos or Bjork and it's matched with a fresh, limitless ambition. "Athena's classic, with a twist" noted Jamie Cullum recently. Athena's debut album, 'Breathe With Me', drew many excellent reviews, indeed The Guardian commenting that she was "Brave and original. A remarkably fine singer songwriter." Since then she has headlined and sold out numerous UK tours, played at Glastonbury, had songs covered by other artists and seen her own music synced with TV, commercials and movies. All the while Athena has built a strong and sizeable following with the sort of word of mouth that can only come from connecting directly with the emotional heart of your audience. Now there is a new album, 'Peeling Apples', produced by Swedes Magnus Frykberg and Tobias Froberg (Ane Brun and Lisa Ekdahl), and co-writers on the record include Richard Causon (Ryan Adams, Ethan Johns, The Kings of Leon, Rufus Wainwright), and Jamie Hartman (Joss Stone, Anastacia) features on a duet. Athena has been writing poetry all her life (she won awards for her poetry in the past) and her songs reflect that. Perhaps the most poignant song on her new album is 'Finding England' is set in London and beautifully talks of letting go of expectation and accepting of the moment for what it is. 'Looking At Me Looking At You' is, on one level, about the nature of love and life, falling into the same traps again and again, but it also draws inspiration from philosopher Alan Watts' understanding that, "through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself." How can we pull back from abusive relationships when we're all involved in the most colossally abusive relationship of all? 'I'll Never Know' tackles the sweet pain of a temptation resisted, that endless battle between head and heart. Then there's 'Little Jane', a message of hope and strength to a girl spotted through a window playing in a field as well as being a supportive word sent back through time to Athena herself as a child. Stay innocent, it says, stay brave. Most of all stay happy. Born in London to Greek parents, Athena's mother would sing her to sleep with traditional folk songs and lullabies and she grew up in a house that reverberated to classical music and Greek song cycles, as well more the more straightforward pleasures of The Beatles and Pink Floyd. However, despite all the music around, the young Athena was denied a piano until she was 16. They figured it would distract her from her studies, but as we all know, natural musicians are made of sterner stuff than that. "I just joined the Drama Club where they had a piano," she smiles "and when I was home alone I'd practice singing exercises I invented for myself." The first time Athena told her parents she wanted to dedicate her life to music they didn't really take much notice "so I locked myself in my room as teenagers do," she says. Athena stayed there for three days listening to the Rolling StonAutor:AthenaNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: Data wydania: 2012Waga: 0.13 gramWysokość: 0.2 cmSzerokość: 5.1 cmDługość: 5.2 cmUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.