Acclaimed Edinburgh singer-songwriter Laura Silverstone’s latest single release has one purpose in mind – to give people just a moment to chill out in their hectic days.
‘Raven on a Tree’ – featured on her forthcoming new album – is an inspiring return to the stand-out style of flourishing guitar instrumental that helped propel her to TV fame and become a live-show favourite.
The track, out on Friday, invites listeners to imagine lying in a tree at the height of summer, bathed in nature, gazing at the stars, feeling loved, and enjoying when the world is still for just one moment and life somehow makes complete sense.
That’s the feeling she hopes to have captured in memory forever with the single, which fuses stretching calm emotion with yoga like ease, as the ambient acoustic guitar solo speaks to a renewed year, looking ahead to longer, warmer days ahead.
Laura said: “The song came to me when I was hanging out with some friends in the middle of the summer and it was a beautiful, warm summer night.
“We decided to climb a tree, and each one of us lay in on a different branch, and we just looked at the stars and chit-chat. And I knew that life doesn’t get much better than that.
“Those are little pockets of magic where everything fits together into one big jigsaw, and for a few moments, for a few minutes, for a few hours, everything feels perfect.
“I felt it worthy of having its own song that would also continue to remind me of that moment, which got to bring me and others to that beautiful place, mentally and emotionally. It’s a song about, yeah, love for life, love for nature, and summer and longer days to come.
“The return of the light. The spring, and the return of the light and the sun, the return of the trees, bringing out their leaves again, birds starting to sing, birds coming back.
“Ultimately, Raven on a Tree for me is about feeling that you are in the right place, and the right time, with the right people. It’s about feeling loved, and feeling you can love, about friendship, nature. Something we can all treasure.”
As well as live shows and earned radio play, she hopes it will prove a favourite for playlists at yoga studios, well-ness retreats, and people’s favourite acoustic chill playlists, as well as relaxed radio listening and for winding down.
She will appear next week at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow for the second year in a row.
The award-winning performer has been invited back to play at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall where she will take part in the legendary Danny Kyle Open Stage line-up on Tuesday, 27 January.
It follows her stunning live debut last year when judges praised the ‘Heartwood’ artist for a barnstorming acoustic performance.
‘Raven on a Tree’, already playlisted by some radio stations, follows her previous releases ‘Dream On’ described on BBC Introducing by Phoebe IH as a being “gorgeous piece of uplifting folk”.
Her most recent single, ‘Morning Pink’, has so far also attracted 33k views on YouTube for her debut music video.
Van-living Laura, a previous grand finalist on the live TV final of Spain’s Got Talent, has been locked away at Lipaka Studio near Cologne in Germany for most of this month working on her new album.
She has been laying down tracks with sought after Grammy-award nominated producer Bob Vogston for the record which is due later this year.
Alongside Celtic Connections, Laura will support the legendary Willie Nile for his 20th anniversary tour in March, and is performing on the World of Song tour with Irish-Sierra Leonean singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Loah.
She is also joining the main stage line-up for Sound of Iona Festival with the likes of the inspirational Newton Faulkner, followed by Back Doune the Rabbit Hole in July.
Laura, who has around 43,000 people following her music adventure on Instagram alone, is also looking to book more gigs in Edinburgh and Glasgow in the coming months.
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