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"Astra somehow manages to touch on the painful yet beautiful, aspect of being alive...it is rather impossible to describe the gravity of her paradoxically angelic voice with its dulcet and soulful tones, which often sent a shiver down the spine...her lyrics leave themselves vulnerably open in a way that is rare to find, with a raw honesty and fragility, which in listening to, you begin to emotionally mirror; feeling uneasy at moments, but held tightly in the music, soothed by the voice, and unable to tear your ears away." (broadwaybaby.com)
'LIBERTY' and 'PHOENIX' are both taken from the debut album 'Where You Rest' out March 2009 on Isolation Recordings. www.isolationrecordings.com
"Dark, sombre and brooding folk that captures the soul with its celestial majesty...Sounding like a composition dreamt up in the darkest and most isolated of Scandinavian forests...hanging and accentuated vocals drifting smoke like across an intimate and melancholic terrain of neo-classical melodica that peaks and troughs with dynamic momentum...The way she manages to drape her vocals over the poignant arrangements, elongating and drawing out certain words, recaptures the captivating glory of Beth Gibbon’s most intimate pieces...Typical of the fresh and exciting sound cultivated in the vibrant Brighton scene, ‘Where You Rest’ is a dreamy, quixotic piece of dark folk that will enthral with its exotic, swelling melodica and mesmeric vocals." (KS, www.experimusic.com)
"Astra has an attractive, sometimes snowflake-gentle, voice...a Nick Drake-alike mood of pastoral ruefulness and reflection...the epic title-track mixes those dramatic strings to rousing effect, combining Astra’s most intriguing melodic turns into a tense pressure-cooker of longing." (americana-uk.com)
Press details at www.isolationrecordings.com/astrapress.html - you can also hear some other Astra recordings on www.isolationrecordings.com.
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