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| Songwriter Marisa Yeaman’s new album ‘Roadmap Heart’ permeates visual imagery and emotional substance drawn from the journeys taken deep within, and yet colored by the external influences of the vast Australian landscape, the cobbled streets of Europe and the roadsides of India. ‘Roadmap Heart’ puts the listener in the passenger seat on the roads traversed since the 2006 release of her critically acclaimed debut album ‘Pure Motive’. Already a valid passport holder to Americana, this Australian songwriter stylistically crosses borders from folk to blues to country and beyond. With strong acoustic guitar work and vocals, laced with the unpretentious onstage ease of a natural storyteller, Marisa captivates audiences with her honesty and humility as she continues to forge new paths across the international Roots music terrain. On this her second album, the darker lyrical content smoulders with a more mature edge reflecting time, events, people, love, pain and rebirth. ‘Roadmap Heart’ is a timeless, self produced offering poetic in content, and laden with the understated but brilliant Yeaman’s multi facetted life, full of memorable highs and gut-renching lows is the genesis of a creative self-reliance, fostered from her childhood spent travelling the breadth of the Australian continent and giving rise to a distinctive sound, strong literary undertones, and a rarity that only comes from living your own story. Her strength as a writer lies in being able to connect the contradictions of the lives we lead and polarise them into songs which stay with the listener long after the notes fade. |
| “The songs themselves, like the novels of Tim Winton, seem to be hewn from a specific sense of place, one that is universal but nonetheless rooted” - AMERICANA – UK |
| ‘Heartfelt and honest roots-based and lyrically strong second album.....A record that grows and grows in stature with each hearing’- ‘Maverick UK’ – 4 STARS |
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Her own life reads like a road movie, travelling through third world countries including Central and South America, India and beyond. Marisa’s ever questioning mind explores the world through her many creative talents including, photography, drawing, poetry and writing. An artist with an acute sense of being on the outside of other peoples lives, yet living her own life ‘in the moment’ with eyes and heart wide open to all the world has to offer. Yeaman created a groundswell of interest abroad with her first release ‘Pure Motive’, reaching #19 in the European Americana Charts, and then repeated the feat with the recent release of her follow up album ‘Roadmap Heart’, proving indelibly that her success was no coincidence. ‘Roadmap Heart’ received ‘FOUR STARS’ and great reviews from across the globe. Her music has had airplay in over 19 countries. A seasoned live performer, Marisa has appeared at Australian & International festivals and venues for over a decade now. She has been joined onstage and in the studio by some of the worlds top musicians, has shared festival bills with artists like John Cale, and has opened shows for some of the World's most respected songwriters including Canada’s Ron Sexsmith & USA's Tom Russell. In 2008-2009 Marisa toured Europe, USA and Australia. She returns to Europe during 2010. ‘Roadmap Heart’ contains 15 stunningly crafted songs to be enjoyed like a favourite book, chapter by chapter. Driven by her inner passion for her art, Marisa travels ever onwards building a credible and poignant body of work as both a writer and a musician. One gets the sense that Yeaman is here for the long haul….. |