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EXCITING NEWS!!!!!!!

I can announce that my new album, ‘Luna’ will be released on the 1st Dec 2017!

The first single from the album will be released on the 3rd Nov 2017 

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Because it’s Autumn ♥

The first single I ever released from the debut album, ‘Autumn Flowers’

https://izzysdaughter.bandcamp.com/album/autumn-flowers-album

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Performance live on air for BBC Introducing in Suffolk on the 5th October 2017. I was lucky enough to have help from local musician Phil Jackson who played the most BEAUTIFUL piano. We performed four tracks from the new upcoming album ‘Luna’ which is out on the 1st December 2017. 

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(Originally posted in 2015 on my old blog)

I’ve been going through an emotional time and it has been a time of change. Throw all emotions in to one big pot and keep stirring. That has been me lately.

I have been avoiding music of such kind, but I let myself listen to Lisa Gerrard this morning. The music unlocked the flood gates on my heart and I knew that I was tired of ignoring the pressing need to just let it happen. Let the tears flow and let myself go.

These were not tears of pained sadness as such, but sadness of a different kind. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it so I decided to go for a run for further release. As I pounded the footpaths of English countryside, ‘Return to Innocence’ by Enigma came on my mp3 player and it stopped me in my tracks. I sat down in the field and looked out across the fields as I took in the words. I had always wondered as a child what the words mean’t in this song, never truly relating to it but feeling it’s power all the same. Today it all became clear to me.

Allowing yourself to feel sadness is not weakness. It is release and an opportunity to listen and see all that is beautiful and true. This is what I believe is a return to innocence.

Life is a crazy concept. We have no idea why we are here or how. Never the less, we strive to live and we have beautiful experiences along the way. It is easy to smother the heart and the innocence of just being with wanting more, and being blind to the beauty that is. It is easy to lose sight of what is beautiful, and get wrapped up in the drama we create in our minds.

But when all is said and done, the dust settles and you are left with the jewels at the bottom of the crater. When all the dust has blown away, you are left with the most precious, true gems of experience. In this case, I’m talking about the beautiful moments one might experience with another, those moments of raw beauty. As I allow myself to feel, I am bombarded with memories, beautiful warm memories that at first I wanted to ignore because I didn’t want to feel sad or vulnerable. It seemed easier to put on a brave face and ignore the truth, but now I see that I was only hurting myself, and these memories are presenting themselves for a reason. They are truth. The sadness I was feeling was nostalgia. It was an emotion full of love.

As I sat there in the field alone with my heart, memories started to fill me with such warmth and I suddenly felt in awe of our very existence. I watched the birds fly across the sky and the wind blow in the trees. I revisited times gone by, in far off lands, and found myself smiling and feeling very much at one with the Earth that I was sitting on, grateful to have had the opportunity to experience such beautiful moments. Maybe that is the essence of life.

Allow yourself to be sad. Allow yourself to be consumed by your heart as it cries out in emotion, asking to be heard and released. Sadness is not a negative emotion, it is simply one of them that needs to be acknowledged and accepted as a healthy way of balancing the self, and remembering what is and what was beautiful.

Sadness. It’s not the beginning of the end. It’s the beginning of deeper understanding.