Coloured Vinyl, Limited Edition
Meredith Moon’s new album, From Here To The Sea, finds the Canadian-born songwriter and instrumentalist taking a slight detour from the Appalachian old-time roots of the album’s predecessor, Constellations. Produced and recorded in Ontario and Nashville by Colin Linden (Lucinda Williams, T-Bone Burnett, Bruce Cockburn) and featuring Rebecca Lovell (Larkin Poe), Lillie Mae Rische & Dominic Davis (Jack White), Julian Taylor, George Receli (Bob Dylan), and Jerry Douglas, among others, the album explores avenues of blues, folk, and folk-rock, and even incorporates elements of old-time jazz. Moon’s signature instrument — the banjo — still makes an appearance, along with the roots music that shaped her sound, but instead of being the anchor to the sonic pallet, it creates a subtle backdrop as she allows her songwriting to take center stage. Moon explains that the majority of the music on the new album was written on the heels of the end of a long relationship. “I was leaving a years-long toxic situation,” she says, “traveling around the US panhandle, falling in love with my now-husband, and quitting drinking. A lot of the visual landscape takes place between New Orleans and Key West. This album is about going to the sea to get free and to follow love however far it takes you, while learning to trust yourself again.”

Meredith Moon has been described as a 'gem' in both the old-time and contemporary folk music scenes for her unusual expression of the genres, combining influences of folk-punk with traditional Appalachian sounds. Moon started writing songs at the age of eight, and growing up immersed in folk music including the music of her father Gordon Lightfoot, became a self-taught guitar player at the age of fourteen. A few years later she found her sound as a busker on sidewalks from Halifax to Vancouver. She then spent years traveling across Canada, and the world, by means of road and rail, finding inspiration for her unique style of songs which are crafted in a true storyteller's fashion.[info sheet from distr.]