After two years of touring behind the critically acclaimed ?Beautiful Yesterday?, Dayna has had very little time alone to write in recent months.?? ?I was a little worried about writing this record...I?m not terribly prolific to begin with, and I really didn?t get much of a break from touring in the past year? she observes. But it was not just the endless cycle of touring / writing / recording that was catching up with her:? ?I also knew that part of it was that my life had changed quite a bit in the last few years.? I had gotten married, and I just wasn?t getting the time alone picking at old wounds that I was used to back in the day.? I was also pretty happy, which was worrisome.? You try not to, but it?s hard not to buy into the miserable artist stereotype.? I kept looking for artists I loved that at least seemed pretty settled and happy and didn?t write crap.?

The success of her last two albums led to a different sort of touring cycle.? ?Tours used to consist of me floating around from town to town over the course of several weeks ? I had lots of downtime, spent a lot of time camping out, exploring, fishing, falling in love with one place or person or another.?? Then all of a sudden her tours started filling in, with few days off, and most of her free time taken with interviews or in transit.

So in April, Dayna escaped to the desert.? ?I completed most of the songs for this one in a hermitage maintained by some lovely people for solitary religious introspection.? I stayed in an adobe hut with dirt floors on 500 acres in the Sonoran desert in Arizona.? There was no electricity, nobody around for miles, a cot, a table, chair and pitcher.? 2 weeks.? I brought no distractions ? no novels, only books of writing exercises and poetry.? It was so quiet at night I could hear the blood beat in my ears. It was sublime, and I wrote constantly.? When I wasn?t writing I?d take a walk, stop and watch a bug climbing around a desert flower for an hour.

Making the record came just as easily.? ?We recorded the basics live to tape, 2 or 3 takes per song, and picked the best of 'em right then.? I love analog.? When you record digitally it just requires too much imagination to hear how good it might sound when you?ve added overdubbed, mixed and mastered.? When you record to tape, it sounds like a record right out of the gate.? It helped us make decisions faster ? we just knew when it was good or great or bad, not based on the perfection of performance, but based on overall vibe.? It was great.?? It?s the only way to go ? especially now that we have pro-tools to dump our chosen tracks into when done.? It was the best of worlds, the warmth and immediacy of analog with the final flexibility of pro-tools.? I?m never recording any other way again.?

Press from previous releases:

»...she could be Leonard Cohen's spiritual daughter«? . . .Billboard

Highly recommended . . Q

An uncompromising force. . . Uncut