Press Release

Independent singer-songwriter Chloë March has spent the last three years crafting her new album ‘Divining’. In 2005 she was playing keyboards for and touring with the band Cousteau. When the tours came to an end Chloë already had half of her album written and ready to record but no budget for studio time. Instead, she invested in recording software and spent the next three years producing the twelve songs that make up ‘Divining’

An album inspired by water

symbolic and poetic, ‘Divining’ interweaves piano, marimbas, harp, strings, shimmering beats and french horn with found sounds of paper, glass, windchimes and Chloë’s beautiful, gentle, soaring vocals. An intense attention to detail within intricate multi-tracking, layer on layer of vocal harmonies, gorgeous key-shifts and vivid poetic lyrics make up an absorbing, lovingly-crafted and beguiling album, with a melancholy, haunting emotional undertow.

The album journeys through

captivating soundscapes of soft summer rain, sensuous decaying drowning Venice, dark symbolic rivers of loss and hope, nostalgic sunlit reveries and tales that include sea angels, a sadistic sculptor, a betrayed Anne Boleyn, melting ice-dryads and one earthy resentful wolf.

Chloë’s distinctive

songwriting style springs from eclectic influences. Her background was steeped in classical music~ daughter of a pianist mother and trumpeter father Chloë started to play piano aged four and later on developed a passion for songwriting and composing. She has written music for Theatre and Dance companies and has built on a talent for composing evocative and atmospheric soundworlds. Her music is influenced by electronica, jazz and a love of artists and composers such as Vaughan Williams, Ravel, Kate Bush and Jane Siberry. Vocally she has been compared to Elizabeth Fraser and Vashti Bunyan – with a beautiful purity in her high register and an honest fragility in the lower. Added to this mix is a deep connection to the english landscape, a a talent for imaginative lyrical imagery and an ear for captivating melody.

Absorbing and ambitious, ‘Divining’ is an assured and beautiful album from an original artist of great integrity and imagination.

Powderkeg Records 2008