Emotionally charged and beautifully penned, Jen Lush has returned with her newest single, the sweet, endearing and soothingly soulful ‘Lovers Parting, Dawn’ which is based on the poem by Aussie poet Kevin Brophy. A mergence of love, loss and longing, her newest offering displays a dynamic soundscape which grows from the faintest of whispers to almighty riff-roaring guitars and playful, punctuated beats. Undulating with swirling melodies and layers of texture, ‘Lovers Parting, Dawn’ fully immerses the listener, bringing them into her unique and enchanting world.
“This record came out of a commissioned project to create new songs around contemporary Australian poetry. It features the words of five of Australia’s leading published poets and crosses through the urban and desert terrain of South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia with poems that speak of love and desolation, loss and memory, the resilience of the country and the stories held within it.
It’s a collaboration with poets Ali Cobby Eckermann, Maria Zajkowski, Kevin Brophy, Renee Pettitt-Schipp and Graham Kershaw, my band James Brown, Paul Angas, Sam Cagney, Mark Seddon and I. With poetry leading the song writing process, words conjure up the soundscapes and are the framework for the melodies to launch from, which takes the music into sometimes unconventional places.
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