Clara Cloud has been honing her craft over the past few years, stretching it from whimsical to also include and spread to earthy tones. She brings these sensibilities with a collage of sounds that situates the mind and body in a forest of sounds in The Woods, her latest release. Clara weaves together an array of sounds and ties them together with her wondrous voice. She leads us like a fairy who is out and about her business, but we just can’t help but be mesmerized by her light. The tracks in the album are light and airy, almost lifting you and propelling your feet to the clouds.
Clara Cloud and Clover
Clover has this energy of a slow and patient ravine that patiently flows, cutting through rocks. There is power in the softness of her music. While the general texture is soft, there are powerful sharp sounds that add layers to the track, in fact, she uses this technique throughout, almost like a scientist in a lab that plates with the measurements and intensity of sounds. The track begins like a trickle and swells into a ginormous being that surrounds us sensorily. What a grand opening to the album!
Weathervane
Weathervane Is one such song that plays with orchestra and choir equally. It is also a number that has more percussion compared to the rest of her album. There is also a choir quality that makes you believe that the track has a divine texture to it as the strings crescendos fill our senses. When your voice trickles in as the backing is soft and this retro beat comes in, your heart is filled with gentle hope.
Orion
Orion and The Woods has this quality where you feel as though you are a child lost in the woods. A quality of fear and curiosity, she does this with slow openings that almost feel as though you are entering a magical world that you know nothing about. “But when the sky comes in can a child grow? But the stars are still Shining there.”. The Woods too is filled with poetry that seeps into your skin and warms your heart. As though the aim of these songs was to hold your inner child.
This quality of curiosity resides in all her songs in the album. This quality of curiosity is similar to the quality Lucy had in The Chronicles of Narnia. You can almost imagine Lucy walking through one end of the wardrobe and out of the other into a magical realm that she needs to explore. She leaves us with a taste for her music, her songs playing at our lips and leaves us wanting more. So let Clara Cloud lead your imagination to the most serendipitous series of songs that deserve your attention. You can follow the links attached above more such wondrous ventures into the woods.