The best compliment I can paid H Stewart is that she has a very personal and unique sound. Her four albums sound as if they are coming from the innermost depths of her soul. While she manipulates liberally with electronic affects, her main instrument is her voice and it is haunting and intimate. Her music reminds me strongly of Gregorian chants, Buddhist meditation music and Aboriginal drones so I can be forgiven if I also interpret her music as being created in the spiritual realm.

The four albums are free and online from the Clinical Archive net label. Her descriptions of these albums strengthen my perspective that they are quite personal and searching. Lost is described as “a collection of love songs written in a time when love was lost, and ideals were shattered”. Fevered and Childless “is meant to be a sculpture of a woman, left longing, loving, and living”. De La Souffrance (My Suffering) “talks of wants, dreams and emotion”. To Touch The Taste of Sound “serves as an audio “play” the script writer being my own voice. It is meant to have livid femininity, longing, and actualization of emotion”. The artist’s description may lead you to believe that these soundscapes are depressing and a bit self-involved but this isn’t the case at all. The music holds up well on its own and is hypnotic and irresistible in a trance-like way. It is personal but not self indulgent. The four album works best as peaceful solitary listening and will probably move you as it did me.

All four albums are available in 320kbps MP3. Some of the other albums can also be downloaded in Ogg Vorbis.

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Lost
Fevered and Childless
De La Souffrance
To Touch The Taste of Sound