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‘the world is running riot and I’m looking to the hills…
and I am looking higher and listening for the bells’
Brenda Heslop is one of the hidden pearls of British songwriting – with this new album she will surely emerge to occupy her rightful position among the very best in her profession.
She has been writing songs for 20 years, her husband Geoff arranges and records them as well as often playing the instruments and providing the harmonies. The arrangements have an original quality, often using folk tunes as a secondary melody to the main tune.
The sound is very much based on their harmony singing, accentuating the words of these beautifully crafted and haunting songs.
The background of the hills of Northumberland, where she has lived and worked all her life provides her with the imagery and subject matter – whether a comment on the changes in rural life, the habit that love has of fading away, or just the things she loves the best – her home and the peace she finds there,
This is authentic songwriting by someone who knows what she’s talking about.
Over a period of 14 years five albums have been recorded -
The new album Golden Bells has just arrived and is available from The Shipbuilders website and  
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