Fierce Hearts
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| Soundtrack album by Katie Noonan | ||||
| Released | 28 February 2014 | |||
| Recorded | Sing Sing Studios | |||
| Genre | Rock music, pop, acoustic, folk rock, jazz | |||
| Label | Kin Music Australia / Universal Music Australia | |||
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Fierce Hearts is a soundtrack/studio album credited to Australian singer songwriter Katie Noonan. It is an album produced by Noonan as the soundtrack to contemporary circus Circa's show "Love-Song-Circus".
At the ARIA Music Awards of 2014, the album was nominated for Best Original Soundtrack/Cast/Show Album, but lost to Gurrumul: His Life and Music by Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.
"Love-Song-Circus" is a moving and unique piece of work based on the stories of Australia’s first convict women. Combining textures of folk instrumentation, string quartet, piano and Noonan’s voice with the graceful physicality of 3 of Circa’s acrobat/ aerialists, this work shares these untold stories within an evocative, beautiful and emotionally engaging performance.
The seeds of this project were sewn in 2010 when Noonan read of an exhibition at the National Museum of Australia called "Love Tokens". This collection contains 307 tokens dating from 1762-1856, most of them fashioned from the 1797 Cartwheel penny. These pennies proved perfect as tokens – they were cheap, made of a soft copper and were quite large – providing plenty of space for inscriptions. Convicts would engrave them with messages and images for the loved ones they had to leave behind.
This imagery of love and loss captured Katie's imagination immediately and she says, "As a woman and mother I felt deeply compelled to explore these stories. I soon discovered that the lives of the first female convicts is a part of our history that has been explored by few".
"Love-Song-Circus" premiered at the 2012 Adelaide Cabaret Festival to full houses and rave reviews. It played again in Melbourne in 2013 and again in 2014 in Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. "Impossibly beautiful, this show is a gift to our contemporary Australian culture. Pure and tragic, brutal and transcending!" Kate Ceberano, Artistic Director, Adelaide Cabaret Festival
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