Katrina Ford - H.E.A.R.T. (2024) [Hi-Res]

Heart Ember Abuse Resin Trend is an album exploring boundaries. Boundaries of space and time. Boundaries, whether physical, emotional or mental boundaries.

Edges, the line, the start and the finish, There was no clearly defined beginning or ending to the making of this album. My work as an artist is a run on sentence. I light many fires and some I carry out the door, so to speak. Some of these songs were written years ago and some were finished this year. They all have the mark of pandemic. As the world shut down, Sean and I headed into the home studio. More and more the demos crystalized as answers to questions.

When locked in and locked down along with the whole world, I became fascinated with portals, windows and thresholds. Always wistfully looking out, seeing beauty in the wind rustling the trees and the clouds clocking despite the unfolding global tragedies. In the physical world there was a heightened awareness of entry and exits. Mask on Mask off. Going to and from physical space could be dangerous.

Contrastingly my inner world became more smeared. The thin veils of meditation, astral travel and dreams mixed with waking life. I’d be working on a song one night and later that week I’d finish writing a melody in an out of body journey or in my sleep. Sounds and tones could carry across all dimensions. It was the only thread to follow through the portals, from the studio in our basement to the whisper into the dream world and back again. Time too became elastic and regressive, being able to resurrect past ideas to add something fresh. As a consequence of this cross contamination, I don’t remember the exact sequence of events to how it was actually made as a whole, rather each song has its own story and path to its way out the door.