New Releases
OUT: 21 Feb 2025
Breath and Air - Single
OUT: 01 Nov 2024
Hey Poseidon - single
OUT: 01 Oct 2024
Last summer I went sailing for the first time in years. Having grown up on a sail boat, I was flooded with memories, and it reminded me that we can always choose to unhook from who we think we ought to be at any point in our lives. We can be as young as we feel. We can reject our pre-conceived ideas, and refuse to be labeled. The experience rekindled in me a romantic longing to return to simplicity, and a desire to strip everything back to essentials: freedom, peace, presence, love.
"Hey Poseidon” was produced and mixed by Chris Bond (Ben Howard) in the UK and will be released on V2 Benelux
"Hey Poseidon” was produced and mixed by Chris Bond (Ben Howard) in the UK and will be released on V2 Benelux
Bio
In February 2025, Heather Nova releases her 13th album, “Breath and Air” on V2 Records. It’s a collection of evocative songs that are rich in melody, lyric and arrangement, with Heather’s signature vocal as strong and ethereal as ever. The album enfolds you in a timeless atmosphere; Inviting you to forget everything for a moment, while simultaneously coming home to yourself
“As I get older I notice I have repeated patterns my whole life, even the ones that don’t serve me: Thought patterns, relationship patterns…. We repeat the cycles until we truly learn what our core wounds are and how to heal them. Songwriting in itself is a search for meaning and clarity about ourselves and the world we inhabit.”
Heather wrote the songs on “Breath and Air” over the past 2 years and spent 4 weeks in the Devon countryside (UK) holed up in an enchanting studio with Chris Bond (Ben Howard) putting down the tracks.
“It was mostly just the 3 of us - Chris, his brother Bear and myself, with Midori Jaeger coming down from London for a few days to play her beautiful cello. Out the window was a field. I would watch the light change there throughout the day. There was a rare albino pheasant that would come and go. I took it as a good sign!”
Breath and Air, Ebbs and Flows, Butterflies and Moths: these are some of the titles of the songs:
“The duality of nature and of being alive is something I explore in my songs. Two things can be true at the same time - that’s something I came to realise as I got older. Accepting and balancing this duality is what leads to a deeper understanding of relationships. We can’t have light without dark, we can’t have joy without pain. Simple stuff, but I constantly need to remind myself.
A lot of the songs are about love and loss and longing. Repeating themes through my life - the search for wholeness, healing and meaning. I keep coming back and looking at it from different angles, through time and through music. It’s an ongoing journey that shows no sign of reaching a destination. My songs are documents of that journey”
“As I get older I notice I have repeated patterns my whole life, even the ones that don’t serve me: Thought patterns, relationship patterns…. We repeat the cycles until we truly learn what our core wounds are and how to heal them. Songwriting in itself is a search for meaning and clarity about ourselves and the world we inhabit.”
Heather wrote the songs on “Breath and Air” over the past 2 years and spent 4 weeks in the Devon countryside (UK) holed up in an enchanting studio with Chris Bond (Ben Howard) putting down the tracks.
“It was mostly just the 3 of us - Chris, his brother Bear and myself, with Midori Jaeger coming down from London for a few days to play her beautiful cello. Out the window was a field. I would watch the light change there throughout the day. There was a rare albino pheasant that would come and go. I took it as a good sign!”
Breath and Air, Ebbs and Flows, Butterflies and Moths: these are some of the titles of the songs:
“The duality of nature and of being alive is something I explore in my songs. Two things can be true at the same time - that’s something I came to realise as I got older. Accepting and balancing this duality is what leads to a deeper understanding of relationships. We can’t have light without dark, we can’t have joy without pain. Simple stuff, but I constantly need to remind myself.
A lot of the songs are about love and loss and longing. Repeating themes through my life - the search for wholeness, healing and meaning. I keep coming back and looking at it from different angles, through time and through music. It’s an ongoing journey that shows no sign of reaching a destination. My songs are documents of that journey”
