Shauna Janz - This Regal Heart (2016)

Tracklist

01. Not Your Hero
02. Lo & Behold
03. Redwood
04. Light and Stardust
05. Here, In Time
06. Gamblin' Woman
07. All the King's Men
08. Echo
09. Heart and Soul
10. Rise Up

The ebb and flow, rise and fall, of the story-lines that grace our hearts and souls. This Regal Heart captures the strength of the human heart and resilience of the human spirit – reaching into the rough and beautiful places that are a catalyst for transformation and love, both personal and universal.

Released in June 2016, Shauna Janz produced This Regal Heart alongside Jillian Wedel of yourSOUNDSCAPE Studio in Victoria, BC, Canada. It was mastered by Craig Waddell at Gotham City Studios, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Sarah McLachlin, Heart, Delirium).

Shauna is “perhaps something of an unusual combination in the music business – a grief support worker and educator who found music as a method for creative release, but turned it into an upstart and promising career” (Nanaimo Daily News, August 2015). The passion she has for her work supporting others through hardship to find resilience and vitality translates into her songs.

As a self-taught guitar player, her unconventional approach and folk-soprano voice has garnered her appreciative audiences. Shauna released a self-recorded EP, Here, In Time, in November 2014, which landed a nomination for Redwood as “Song of the Year” at the 2015 Vancouver Island Music Awards.

Her indie-folk sounds are described as "lyrical, soulful, warm" and "stunning and memorable; a unique voice that combines folk with soul and dances between notes and cadences with ease and unpredictability." Shauna weaves in soulful notes that leave audiences remarking on her vocal stylings to the likes of Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Jewel, Kate Bush, and Loreena McKennitt.

Audiences can expect fascinating guitar tunings, haunting finger-picking melodies, punctuated by driving rhythms, and set amongst both ethereal soprano sounds and strong spirited vocals.

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