Today, October 10th 2008 is the release date of Heather Nova's new album The Jasmine Flower. The new album is available in stores in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
According to a note on Heather's myspace website, it will be available in France shortly afterwards and in the UK from Amazon.

The album is as well available as high-quality MP3 (192kBit/s) download on the newly designed official artist page www.heathernova.com. It comes with a 12 page booklet as PDF format.

The german ITunes store offers along with the album the additional live track "All I Need" from the Intimate Evening with Heather Nova concert in Groningen 2006.

Here is a brand new exclusive interview with Heather Nova about the new album 'The Jasmine Flower'. Enjoy!

19 minutes with you - heather talks about 'The Jasmine Flower'

On Monday the 6th of October 2008 there will be another song available from The Jasmine Flower to listen to on Heather Nova's myspace website

www.myspace.com/heathernova

A big thank you to Felix for providing this interview and the information.

This is a message from Heather Nova from her myspace website www.myspace.com/heathernova about the availability of the new album:


Hi Friends

just to let you know I put a track from my new album, "The Jasmine Flower" up on myspace for you to hear. It's called "Ride". Enjoy..... more to come!

The album will be in shops in Germany, Austria, Switzerland on the 10th of October. In France shortly afterwards, in the UK from Amazon and Worldwide on iTunes and other download sites. CDs will also be available at the shows in October, and directly from www.heathernova.com.

See you there!

Heather

The new Heather Nova album The Jasmine Flower will finally be released in germany as a twelve track album. The song "Always Christmas" was added to the original tracklist.

The first track of the "The Jasmine Flower" album - "Ride" - and track number 12 "Always Christmas" were made available online to radio stations as electronical promotion single.

You can listen to the complete first song "Ride" of the new album on Heather Nova's myspace website:
http://www.myspace.com/heathernova

The german physical album release of The Jasmine Flower will not contain a bonus CD as mentioned in one of the previous news. This bonus CD will be released as separat album in spring 2009 and will be a live recording of the concert Groningen, from March 19th 2006, which was part of the Intimate Evening Tour with Heather Nova.

Some online stores, like iTunes and musicload.de will provide additional songs to "The Jasmine Flower" from this concert to promote the album. iTunes will have "All I need" and musicload.de will have "fool for you" added to their online distribution. The songs "you left me a song" and "this body" will be available as well on most online stores.

The CD booklet of the new album will include the lyrics of the songs.


many thanks to SonyBMG Germany for this information

Hello Friends

I have some good news – on October 10th I will be releasing an album of all new material, called “The Jasmine Flower” .

I played around a lot over the last 2 years with different sounds and ideas, but in the end I decided I wanted to make my most stark record to date, so I recorded the songs just me and my guitar. Afterwards we added a string quartet to a few tracks.

I have a home studio here in Bermuda, but when I was ready to put down the tracks, the whole thing started breaking down – first the mixing desk then the computer itself died. I was very “in the zone” to record and didn’t want to wait what could be weeks for all new gear to arrive, so I decided it was a lesson in simplicity– I realized I could still record and mix the album on my solar powered laptop. So there you have it – that’s all you need to make a great sounding album. Sun and songs.

I think the songs must be good, because most of them make me feel pretty uncomfortable, which is a sign that I have plumbed the depths and dug for truth, no matter how unsettling.
I will also be including a bonus cd - a concert recording from my last tour.

I hope you enjoy the album, and I hope to see you on tour.

Here is the track listing

RIDE
BEAUTIFUL STORM
MAYBE TOMORROW
OUT ON A LIMB
EVERY SOLDIER IS A MOTHER’S SON
OUT IN NEW MEXICO
LOOKING FOR THE LIGHT
HOLLOW
IF I SHOULD DIE
SAY SOMETHING
FOLLOW ME IN GRACE


Here are my tour dates..

Oct 13 - Sheperd’s Bush Empire - London, United Kingdom 

Oct 14 - Ancienne Belgique - Bruxelles, Belgium 

Oct 15 - Grosse Freiheit - Hamburg, Germany 

Oct 16 - Columbiahalle - Berlin, Germany 

Oct 18 - Den Atelier - Luxembourg, Luxembourg 

Oct 19 - Gasometer - Vienna, Austria 

Oct 20 - Volkshaus - Zurich, Switzerland 

Oct 21 - Muffathalle - Munich, Germany 

Oct 22 - Theaterhaus - Stuttgart, Germany 

Oct 24 - E-Werk - Koln, Germany 

Oct 25 - Oosterport - Groningen, Netherlands 

Oct 26 - Paradiso - Amsterdam, Netherlands 

Oct 27 - Effenaar - Eindhoven, Netherlands
Oct 28 - Elysee-Montmartre - Paris, France

Heather




(This is an original message from Heather Nova to be released on HNN. Thanks so much Heather!)

According to SonyBMG, Heather Nova will release on October 10, 2008, a new studio album with 12 songs!

The album title is "The Jasmine Flower". The working title for the album was "Dark Horse Heart". In some German online stores, you can already pre-order the new album, but you may search after the working title to find the album.

The track listing:
1. Ride
2. Beautiful Storm
3. Maybe Tomorrow
4. Out On A Limb
5. Every Soldier Is A Mother's Son
6. Out In New Mexico
7. Looking For The Light
8. Hollow
9. If I Should Die
10. Say Something
11. Follow Me In Grace
12. Always Christmas

There is no information yet what happened with the "best-of" release that was planned to release this fall.

Three days after the release of "The Jasmine Flower", Heather Nova starts her European tour, with playing in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in October 2008 (see "Tour Dates").

(Thanks to Heinz from heathernova.de!)

The new ATB album Trilogy is now released in Germany. Heather Nova has cowritten three songs on it and is singing on all three songs as well.

The tracks with Heather Nova on Trilogy are:

03. Renegade (05:36)
05. Stars Come Out (03:27)
07. Made Of Glass (04:18)

The album version of Renegade differs from the already released 3 versions on the CD Single.

Today the CD-Single Renegade by ATB with Heather Nova was released.

The CD-Single features 3 tracks and a video.

The tracklist is:

1. Renegade - Airplay Mix (03:56)
2. Renegade - A&T Mix (10:15)
3. Renegade - Ronski Speed Remix (06:26)

Renegade - The Video (in size 352x288 pixels) (03:59)

The Renegade Video was shot in Buenos Airos with Heather Nova and ATB on March 10th as already reported. The cover is the same we already posted:

Heather Nova is currently writing songs for the new album and she hopes to record next summer.

Besides, she will sing on sunday, November 19, in the afternoon at the free "family day" of the "Save The Gardens" campaign in the Botanical Gardens of Bermuda. There had been plans to built a hospital in the Botanical Gardens, and Heather Nova protested against the plans, because parts of the gardens had to be destroyed. In the meanwhile, the plans were delayed. Heather Nova will sing approximately 20 minutes.

Sources: theroyalgazette.com, savethegardens.com

Heather Nova is writing songs for her new album! There is no album release date planned yet.

Besides that, there are considerations to release an album with all her unreleased recorded tracks. Among them probably "When/If The Music Stops", which was recorded for Redbird, but finally didn't make it on the album.

many thanks to heather for this information

Heather Nova's new album "Redbird" was released today in UK.

Redbird on Amazon UK

Heather Nova's second single from Redbird will be Motherland !
This will be again a single you cannot buy! It will be aired on the radio.

source: SonyBMG

Heather Nova's album Redbird, already released in some European countries, will be released in the UK on October 3rd.

source: eil.com

Today, September 6th, marks the release of Redbird in France. As reported earlier, it is a digipak, with the same tracklisting as the other versions that are already available. It also features the same track times mistakes. The Welcome single cover is used behind the disc tray. The disc itself is slightly different, with a white background on the edges and a maroon background beneath the black marks. "Heather Nova Redbird" is written in black instead of exposing the CD's surface. The legal mentions stretch all the way around and are not the same. Be sure to check out our picture gallery for pictures (coming soon). Currently I've only seen this version, i.e. no standard jewel case for now.

You can order it now on FNAC.com for 15.99€ plus postage. In FNAC stores it is sold for 17.50€. It is also available at ALAPAGE.com, for 15.76€, but the delivery is up to 6 days in France... to say nothing of foreign countries!

[EDIT] It is now available on AMAZON.fr for 16.62€.

In any case, it looks like delivery outside of France costs at least 8€.

Some updated release dates for Heather Nova's new album "Redbird":

Benelux, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Scandinavia: already released
France: September 6th
Italy: October 14th

No information about UK.

(source heathernova.com)

Heather Nova's new album Redbird, which was released last week is the highest new entry in the german MediaControl Charts. It went directly to number 10. It's even more remarkable as there was no single upfront.

On Heather Nova's German website http://www.heather-nova.de/, you can now now the video of her new single Welcome.

Additionally, you can watch 14 interview clips where Heather talks about her new album, music and song writing. The videos were probably shot in the Bermudas. You can see Heather's dog Friday in the background in some of the clips.

Here you can go directly to the Welcome Video + Video Interviews

The video for Heather Nova's download-only single Welcome premieres on Heather's official artist page www.heathernova.com.

It's online now, go watch it!

You can listen to all of Redbird now on the
V2 Scandinavia & Finland site.

Redbird is now available in the record stores of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Enjoy. It's a great album

Redbird has been removed from the German iTunes Music Store. It's still available in other countries.

As an exclusive, you can now download another Welcome single, featuring the album's title-track.

1. Welcome (Album Version) [4:18]
2. Redbird [4:16]

Heather Nova's new album Redbird is already available on the iTunes Music Store in several countries (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain).

[edit by Ben] Be careful though, as some of the tracks are in the wrong order... Grab them while they're hot!

Enjoy!

Welcome is already released. It's not available as maxi CD or as single CD. It's only available for download in AAC format on the iTunes Music Store (in Germany, France, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Spain, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, but not [yet] in the USA, Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden) and in WMA format on the VirginMega website (in French and from France only).

Two songs are available for 0.99 Euro each or 1.49 Euro for both.

01. Welcome (Radio Version) 3:33
02. Welcome (Album Version) 4:18

http://www.apple.com/itunes/
http://www.virginmega.fr/

On the homepage of Heather's official site, you will find the cover art for Redbird's first single, Welcome, which is derived from one of the new promo pics. Along with it is a picture from the set of the accompanying video. It features Heather in a sexy mermaid-like dress, hair flying, with the sea and the sky behind her. No word yet on the place where it was shot.

Much like Drink It In from Storm, Welcome seems to be only a promotional single, meaning it has a video but won't get a public release, in France and in Germany at least. Copies have been sent out, featuring the radio edit (3:30) and the the album version (4:15) of Welcome. You can see a picture of this CD in the forums of the German fansite.

Heather Nova's first single Welcome from her upcoming album Redbird will most likely be released on August 1st, just one week before the album release.