Basia Bulat

Heart Of My Own

CD

Regular price $14.99 CAD

Release date: January 26, 2010

Basia’s 2007’s debut, Oh, My Darling, was a success both at home and on the international scene, garnering a Polaris Prize nomination, and praise from...

Basia’s 2007’s debut, Oh, My Darling, was a success both at home and on the international scene, garnering a Polaris Prize nomination, and praise from outlets like NPR, who labeled “In the Night” as “one of 2008’s great singles,” citing Bulat’s “graceful effervescence and … innate understanding of momentum.”

Like it’s predecessor, Heart of My Own was produced by Howard Bilerman at Hotel2Tango in Montreal, but it’s a decidedly more eclectic record in terms of the songwriting and instrumentation. “I think it is at times extremely sparse and, well, spacious, with big choirs singing,” Bulat says, “and then it gets really dense with really spirited and rolling drums.”

Nearly all the songs on Heart of My Own were written while on the road: traveling between cities, crossing the Canadian prairies, searching for a place to stop in the Nevada desert, trailing through the Smoky Mountains, standing in the bright dusk of a summer night in the Yukon. Perhaps most surprising was the strong influence her short time in the Yukon had on this album. Basia spent five days and nights in Dawson City, where for the first time she experienced true silence. “I felt my mind was overwhelmed with ideas. It had been a long-time dream of mine to make it to the Yukon, so to finally accomplish that, and for it to be possible because of my music, was also a very overwhelming thing.”

Product Details

Packaging
4-panels cardboard jacket with folded lyric poster
Label
Secret City Records
Country of manufacture
Canada
UPC
680341940021

Musicians

Basia Bulat
Vocals / Guitar / Piano / Organ / Synthesizer / Autoharp / Ukulele
Erik Arnesen
Banjo
Bobby Bulat
Drums / Percussion
Eric Démoré
Piano / Harmonium / Accordion / Organ
Jessica Moss
Violin
Sebastian Ostertag
Cello
Alison Stewart
Violin / Backing Vocals
Holly Coish
Backing Vocals
Ellie Nimeroski
Backing Vocals
Madisyn Whajne
Backing Vocals
Tim Kingsbury
Bass
Brian Lipson
Trumpet
Thierry Amar
Upright Bass
Katie Saunoris
Backing Vocals
Jen Reimer
French Horn
Jenna Marie Wakani
Backing Vocals

Production Credits

Producers
Howard Bilerman / Basia Bulat
Mixing
Howard Bilerman
Mastering
Harris Newman

Songwriting Credits

Go On
Basia Bulat
Run
Basia Bulat
Sugar and Spice
Basia Bulat
Gold Rush
Basia Bulat
Heart of My Own
Basia Bulat
Sparrow
Basia Bulat
If Only You
Basia Bulat
I'm Forgetting Everyone
Basia Bulat
The Shore
Basia Bulat
Once More, For The Dollhouse
Basia Bulat
Walk You Down
Basia Bulat
If It Rains
Basia Bulat