1. I Was On The Back Of A Nightingale/ 2. The Roots Run Deep/ 3. It’s Called ‘Daisy’/4. Ragman Roll/ 5. Meridian Arc/ 6. Navigator/ 7. Burial/ 8. A Second Life/ 9. It Was Flood/ 10.Whale Fall: A Journal/ 11. Dreamlands/ 12. Perfect Crime
Function Records,May 2014
As is the case with all the music bands, we need our time with Her Name Is Calla in order to get to know them. Now that they released their third full length album under the title ‘Navigator’, it is becoming more and more clear what they want to express through their music and more importantly how they want to communicate this. If you have ignored this band so far, Navigator is the album that will convince you to reconsider.
This album in terms of performance, has nothing to do with the familiar psychological detachment that characterises most of the young UK bands that are part of similar music genres. Her Name is Calla bring with this album, something from the warmth of American acoustic folk and rock of the 1970s. Navigator’s music, has many reference points and this makes it very interesting to listen. The band, has made big leaps in the direction of lyrical experimentation since their previous album. This album has a significantly richer and exuberant music compared to the two previous albums of the band. The orchestration is done very carefully and in such a way that stresses the sound and melody played by each one of the different instruments even though they have completely different tones (i.e. theremin, bass guitar, violin, synth, cello, banjo, mandolin, piano). In this way the music of ‘Navigator’ tells a very interesting story unlike the previous albums of this band.
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