LOCAL singer/songwriter Kim Seviour has released her debut album, ‘Recovery is Learning’ after signing to White Star Records.
Formerly the front woman of progressive rock band Touchstone, Kim Seviour has now launched her solo career which follows her signing to White Star Records.
Kim can now reveal that she has been working on a brand new album with one of prog music’s finest and prevalent musicians, John Mitchell (who also assists in the running of White Star Records together with Chris Hillman). Together Kim and John co-wrote and produced her forthcoming album ‘Recovery Is Learning’ which is set for a July 28th release.
On her collaboration with John Mitchell, Kim said, “It’s been a pleasure and an honour to be given the opportunity to complete this album with John and with White Star. It means so much to me for a number of reasons, so I really hope that everyone who hears it gets the joy from it that I have.”
John said, “Having discussed the idea of doing an album together for many years now, it was an absolute pleasure to finally bring the ‘Recovery Is Learning’ album to fruition and work with one of my oldest and dearest friends.
“Kim is a genuine talent, her voice is to my mind the greatest female voice we have on the prog scene at present and to get to co-write songs that both suit her vocal stylings and enable to her to realise her artistic vision was a real privilege. All hail Queen Seviour!”
Kim has a particularly unique approach to the feel of her musical creations, which encompass magically mesmerising soundscapes and lyrical content that represents her own personal journey to recovery.
After enduring various adversities whilst going through the writing process for the album, her ongoing struggle with M.E/CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) motivated her more than ever to inject her experiences and emotions into her music, which has cultivated in a stunningly unique album that is sure to cement her as an artist to watch.
Kim said, “I started off wanting to write about what I’d learned already from my own health experiences and the process of recovering from them. I became unexpectedly ill in other ways whilst writing which actually delayed it, so the second half of the writing process was all about climbing out of it for myself. Because of this, the album turned into a truly organic self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Kim would like to promote mental and physical well-being and as such, that is what her album inspiration is derivative of and what comes from her ongoing studies learning about psychology.
Kim is the most recent signing to White Star Records. Her former achievements to date are touring with Touchstone and playing with notable artists in the prog scene such as It Bites, Enochian Theory, and performing at festivals such as High Voltage and Ramblin Man Fair. Her work with Touchstone was what inspired Chris Hillman to sign Kim’s solo endeavour after she departed Touchstone.
Chris said, “I’d always felt that Kim had a great voice, personality and stage presence and so the idea of her writing and recording an album with John was very exciting. The combination of her voice and ideas combined with John’s skills as a musician and producer would surely create something special. I wasn’t disappointed. The first track ‘Chiasma’ I played over and over. I knew they’d created something special already and from then on, every track they completed maintained that quality. Melodic and powerful – a wonderful album.”
