"Mermaid’s Work" is the début album by indie film producer and composer Fiona Howe.  Eight songs explore the connection between the female psyche and the sea, a kaleidoscope of emotional colours shifting and moving with the ebb and flow of the tide, creating an intimate, mysterious sound, a vocal that steals into the ear and seduces the listener with its story. The lyrics deal with desire and desolation, defiance and abandonment, inspiration and healing. The songs are scored sparingly, with violin and cello underpinning and interweaving the vocal and piano lines and occasional colour from flute and harp, but they are also accessible and melodic.

Track List
1. Siren Sister 3.42
2. Shell 3.31
3. Mermaid’s Work 4.42
4. Forest 4.27
5. Still Waters 2.59
6. Toward the Moon 4.13
7. Migrant 2.47
8. Estrogen 4.10

All songs written, arranged and produced by Fiona Howe. Performed by Fiona Howe (vocals, piano, flute, harp), Camilla Gregorovitch (violin) and Alisa Liubarskaya (cello).
Recorded, engineered and mixed by Stephen Reilly. Remixed and mastered by Wes Maebe at GHQ Sonic Cuisine, London.

Mermaid’s Work EAN 5060311800015
© 2015 Fiona Howe. All rights reserved.

Contact:
fiona.howe@scenariofilms.com
fionahowemusic@gmail.com

Web: www.fionahowe.com
www.scenariofilms.com

Digital version available from
http://www.fionahowe.com/#!music/c130w
https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1063894934

CD and Digital package available from
https://fionahowe.bandcamp.com/

Release date: 16 January 2016



Mermaid's Work Playlist

'REQUIEM FOR THE LIVING' from the soundtrack of the feature film 'DELIRIUM' Composed and Produced by FIONA HOWE.  Performed by the Chapel Choir of Royal Hollowayand members of the Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra.  Choirmaster RUPERT GOUGH.  Musical direction JULIAN GALLANT. Soloists ALISA LIUBARSKAYA (Cello), JOHN GALLANT (violin), CAMILLA GREGOROVITCH (Violin). 'The Dream' Performed by FIONA HOWE (Piano) and ALISA LIUBARSKAYA (Cello).
'Requiem' recorded live at the Chapel, Royal Holloway University of London by WES MAEBE.  'The Dream' recorded on location by MUSTAFA BAL.  All tracks Mixed and Mastered by WES MAEBE. © 2017 Scenario Films Ltd. 
All rights reserved.

DELIRIUM Soundtrack Playlist

Samples from the soundtrack of new British movie DELIGHT by Gareth Jones.  www.scenariofilms.com/films/delight

DELIGHT FILM SOUNDTRACK

Jo's Lament

Agoraphobia

Echo's Theme

Leaving

New Love

SHELL

There was a girl
You loved
Tough little fist
In a velvet glove
And she would take you
To the water’s edge

She gave you a shell
Smaller than a fingernail
And the gift of second sight

And she
She got washed ashore
One night
And he 
Couldn’t see
The moon was too bright
And the waves played over and over
On the sand

There was a place
You stood
Dry as a bone and
Drained of blood
The tide would scour 
Your mother of pearl

To make you a shell
For the winds to howl through
And the sands to fill
With the gift of second sight

And he
He got washed ashore
One night
And she 
Couldn’t see
The moon was too bright
And the waves played over and over
On the sand

© 2015 Fiona Howe

Shell

SIREN SISTER

I’m on a roll
Drift and swirl
Dip and curl
Swoon unfurl
Dive and hurl
My marble body 
To the wave

I’m on a high
Siren cry
Croon and sigh
Breathe me dry
Shoot the lie 
Watch me plummet
To the deep

My ships are sailing
Send my fleet into the bloodied sun
The winds are fair with fury
So billow on my galleon
Billow on on on on on

This lady’s not for turning
This city’s not for burning
This life is rigged for learning
Prow forward dark sea churning
To the world’s end
To the world’s end la la la la la

I’m in a bind
Nailed to the tree
Cold and free
Gilded she
Looks like me
Crash my bones
Into white horses

I’m deaf and blind
Lashed to the mast
Bind me fast
Died and cast
Call me last
Breathe in the sweetness
Of the ocean

My ships are sailing
Send my fleet into the bloodied sun
The winds are fair with fury
So billow on my galleon
Billow on on on on on

This body’s not for spurning
This heart will not stop yearning 
This mind wakes to hear her sing
Prow forward dark sea churning
To the world’s end
To the world’s end la la la la la

My ships are sailing
Send my fleet into the bloodied sun
The winds are fair with fury
So billow on my galleon
Billow on on on on on

© 2015 Fiona Howe

Siren Sister

"Mermaid’s Work" is the title track from newly released début album by indie film producer and composer Fiona Howe. Eight songs explore the connection between the female psyche and the sea, a kaleidoscope of emotional colours shifting and moving with the ebb and flow of the tide, creating an intimate, mysterious sound, a vocal that steals into the ear and seduces the listener with its story. The lyrics deal with desire and desolation, defiance and abandonment, inspiration and healing. The songs are scored sparingly, with violin and cello underpinning and interweaving the vocal and piano lines and occasional colour from flute and harp, but they are also accessible and melodic.

Track List
1. Siren Sister 3.42
2. Shell 3.31
3. Mermaid’s Work 4.42
4. Forest 4.27
5. Still Waters 2.59
6. Toward the Moon 4.13
7. Migrant 2.47
8. Estrogen 4.10

All songs written, arranged and produced by Fiona Howe. Performed by Fiona Howe (vocals, piano, flute, harp), Camilla Gregorovitch (violin) and Alisa Liubarskaya (cello).
Recorded, engineered and mixed by Stephen Reilly. Remixed and mastered by Wes Maebe at GHQ Sonic Cuisine, London.

Mermaid’s Work EAN 5060311800015
© 2015 Fiona Howe. All rights reserved.

Contact:
fiona.howe@scenariofilms.com
fionahowemusic@gmail.com

Web: www.fionahowe.com
www.scenariofilms.com


Mermaid's Work

From 'Requiem for the Living' the soundtrack of feature film 'DELIRIUM' starring Clare Grogan, Timothy West, Mamta Kaash, Gareth Jones and Alisa Liubarskaya.  Performed by the Chapel Choir, Royal Holloway University of London.  Choirmaster Rupert Gough. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Wes Maebe. 
Nominated Best Original Score for a Drama Feature, Reel Music Awards 2017:  ‘…full of beautifully-rendered choral pieces… a wonderfully intimate and emotionally powerful score.’
 © 2017 Scenario Films Ltd.  All rights reserved.

Kyrie Eleison

From the soundtrack of forthcoming film release "DELIRIUM" starring Clare Grogan, Timothy West, Mamta Kaash, Gareth Jones and Alisa Liubarskaya. Performed by Fiona Howe (piano) and Alisa Liubarskaya (cello),on location at Royal Holloway University of London. Recorded by Mustafa Bal, mixed and mastered by Wes Maebe. All rights reserved.

The Dream

'Come Gentle Night - Juliet's Song' is part of a new collection of a cappella songs for female voice choir 'Shakespeare's Daughters' written by Fiona Howe, based on words spoken by Shakespeare’s heroines.  

"Come night come; come Romeo; come thou day in night;
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.
Come gentle night, come loving black-brow'd night,
Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun."

This live version performed 25 June 2019 by the Choir of Notting Hill and Ealing High School, directed by Hester Goodsell.

Shakespeare's Daughters

Come Gentle Night (Live Clip)

Fiona Howe is a singer-songwriter, musician and composer based in London.   She also produces feature films.

Classically trained, with a degree in literature, Fiona inherited her gift for improvisation and a taste for blue notes from her jazz pianist grandmother.

Her début album Mermaid’s Work was released in January 2016. Eight songs explore the connection between the female psyche and the sea, a kaleidoscope of emotional colours shifting and moving with the ebb and flow of the tide, creating an intimate, mysterious sound, a vocal that steals into the ear and seduces the listener with its story. The lyrics deal with desire and desolation, defiance and abandonment, inspiration and healing. The songs are scored sparingly, with violin and cello underpinning and interweaving the vocal and piano lines and occasional colour from flute and harp, but they are also accessible and melodic.

Fiona has produced a trilogy of award-nominated feature films for which she has also composed and performed the soundtrack music:  Desire (Nominated Best UK Feature, Raindance Film Festival),  Delight (Nominated Best Feature, Moscow International Film Festival) and most recently a full orchestral/choral score for Delirium which premièred in the Official Selection of Moscow Film Festival in 2017.  The soundtrack recently won a special mention by the online 2017 Reel Music Awards, where it was nominated in the category Best Original Score for a Drama Feature:  ‘…full of beautifully-rendered choral pieces… a wonderfully intimate and emotionally powerful score.’

Fiona Howe

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