This song is inspired by a BBC documentary called 'Leonard and Marianne'. It was about the creative community that lived on Hydra in the 1960s and '70s, which, of course, included the inspirational Leonard Cohen.
Sue Harding's unique voice, range and heartfelt delivery creates a hauntingly beautiful sound .. Her songs are delicate but powerful, full of poetry and invention that never fails to enchant. 
There is a retro sensibility to much of her music that references the song writing of the 1960s and '70s.

09 - Hydra

A song of longing and beauty; a sparkling, swooning soundscape of intimate guitar, spacey electric mandolin and a haunting vocal.  Sirens is the old story of Odysseus who has himself chained to the mast of his ship to hear the call of the sirens and yet not be taken.  Such a brave and foolhardy undertaking and he does not go unscathed...perhaps, years later this adventurer is still lost in the deep.

Sirens

Transcendent, visceral, tender and dreamlike.

03 - Something Real

A sparkling tender mandolin tune and a setting of an extract from 'Tam O'Shanter' by Robert Burns