The Queen Who Stole The Sky, by Sarah Mary Chadwick

The Queen Who Stole The Sky

by Sarah Mary Chadwick

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Al Shew “There is a crack, a crack in everything”, sang Leonard Cohen, “That's how the light gets in”. Sarah takes it to the limit, coming across here as a mighty Kintsugi Kali, buffeted forever by dark forces and furiously mending herself with song. Bracing and totally incandescent.

Ryan Chadwick's gift is her unique voice, filled with infinite disappointment and thwarted rage. No other artist would dedicate their career so completely to embodying this sense of ennui, of helpless bemusement and disgust at the indignity of the human condition. This is my favorite album she's made because of its awesome sonic scale. The organ blows up her emotions to cinematic proportions.

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1.	Confetti 04:45	buy track
2.	Kesey Peasy 03:10	buy track
3.	Hurtle Through It 03:33	buy track
4.	Anniversary 03:47	buy track
5.	I Just Came To Pray 05:38	buy track
6.	On The Make 02:41	buy track
7.	Next In Line 04:25	buy track
8.	Make Plans 03:42	buy track
9.	The Queen Who Stole The Sky 04:01	buy track
10.	Pretend Lover 02:55	buy track
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The prolific Sarah Mary Chadwick returns with ‘The Queen Who Stole The Sky’, an album performed and recorded live on Melbourne Town Hall’s 147 year-old grand organ. Originally built in 1872, rebuilt in 1925 and refurbished in the 1990s.

In 2018, Sarah Mary Chadwick was commissioned by Melbourne City Council to create an entirely new body of work, to be written and recorded in just three months on an instrument grand in size, sound and antiquity. A daunting task to some, but Sarah Mary Chadwick’s trademark writing style is one that instigates itself furiously - she feels and then begins to write, without ruminating or long periods of drawn out self-reflection.

What results from this process are songs that are completely undiluted in their spirit, and an ability to create vast volumes of work over relatively short periods of time.

The Queen Who Stole The Sky’ is a body of work that is undeniably commanding, yet punctuated by quieter points of intimacy. The songs have a narrative-like quality, unfolding themselves before their audience. Sarah Mary Chadwick's command of the grand organ is testament to her musicality – the sheer size of the instrument could so easily drown out the nuances of the songwriting – but not so for Sarah.

Sarah describes the songs as being mostly about rural isolation, death, and “the fact that I’m always waiting for life and it never arrives – it only ever leaves”.

‘The Queen Who Stole The Sky’ was performed live at Melbourne Town Hall in the winter of 2018. The album is a masterful production by Sarah Mary Chadwick, and in Sarah’s own words, is dedicated to “anyone who ever wanted a little bit more than what life had to offer them”.

‘The Queen Who Stole The Sky’ will be released via Rice Is Nice Records + Heavy Machinery Records (AUS) April 12 + via Sinderlyn Records (US / EU) April 19.

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released April 12, 2019

All tracks written and performed by Sarah Mary Chadwick
© Sarah Mary Chadwick 2019

Recorded by Jem Savage and Geoffrey O'Connor
Mixed by Tony Espie at Tufftones Melbourne
Mastered by David Walker at Stepford Audio Melbourne
Cover art by Sarah Mary Chadwick
Photography by Nicole Reed
Curated and produced by Miles Brown

The music on this album was commissioned by the City of Melbourne

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