Releases
Astra:Where You Rest
Heliconia:Your Face
Heliconia:Glad You Were Born
The Troy Enclosure:Lucky Us
Roma Kid:Centre And Periphery
Moth:Making It Beautiful
Heliconia:Girl I Need You
Moth:Moth EP
Icer:Astrid Calls
News
05 February 2009
Astra Brighton gig, February 27
Astra has a gig in Brighton on Friday, February 27 at The Cella Bar at Sanctuary, Brunswck Street East. She will be playing a a half hourish set of new and old material on piano and guitar. Admission is £5.
Astra's debut album, Where You Rest, will be released on Isolation on March 23.
05 January 2009
Astra: Where You Rest
Where You Rest, the debut album by Brighton singer-songwriter Astra, is ready for release on Isolation Recordings on March 23, 2009.
Written when she was 19 and recorded over two days, Where You Rest catalogues what Astra describes as "wanderings of love, longing and loss" in a mesmeric voice, by turns vulnerable and dreamy, powerful and direct.
With an acoustic sound that has been compared to Joni Mitchell, Beth Gibbons and the autumnal Englishness of Nick Drake, Astra brings unflinching honesty to her songs.
Her tales of outsiders and of everyday hopes and disappointments are complemented beautifully by spare, precise arrangements.
Abi Fry (British Sea Power, Bat For Lashes) plays viola on all but one of the eight tracks, while Dave Hickson on piano adds delicate sketchy motifs and hammered tattoos, perectly fitting the mood of the songs.
Acoustic guitar from Astra underpins the overall sound.
Where You Rest is available as a limited-edition digipak with a twelve-page booklet of lyrics/artwork by Astra.
The track listing is:
Liberty
Hutch
Where You Rest
Be My Friend
Old Habits
Angel
Run
Phoenix
Download some Astra demos of some of these tracks and other unreleased material at the Unreleased page.
For further information email astra@isolationrecordings.com