Album Notes

With the dust of the Australian continent firmly in her veins, travelling
the nation with her family as a child, and the world since, has given her
a bagful of life experience that would be at home in a Kerouac novel.
Marisa Yeaman’s strength as a writer lies in the ability to connect the
contradictions of the lives we lead and polarise them into songs which
stay with the listener long after the notes fade.

If songs are a journal of the times we live in, then Marisa has been writing
her own truth for most of her life. Her sound is her own, worn off the edges of
country twang, the soulfulness of the blues and the literal sensibility of
modern day folk. Add a voice drenched in real experience, rich from a roar to
a whisper, and aching with passion and you begin to understand why
Yeaman never quite fits squarely into any musical box.

After almost a decade of work as a live musician in Australia, Marisa’s self
released debut album ‘Pure Motive’ in 2005 climbed to number 19 on the
critic based Euro Americana Chart. Marisa’s follow up album ‘Roadmap
Heart’ in 2008, earned accolades and airplay from across the world and
climbed to number 11. Now after many more miles, many notes and many
songs, her highly anticipated third full length album ‘Voices from the
Underground’ debuted at number 4 on the Chart.

Yeaman is a touring artist who has played regularly in Europe, UK, USA and
Australia, building a loyal audience for her work and she has shared stages
with some of the most respected songwriters of our times like Tom Russell,
Chris Smither and Ron Sexsmith. Her music has had radio airplay in over
19 countries, and accolades from across the world. Marisa was recently
invited to write for projects with the prestigious Van Gogh Museum, and the
Groninger Museum in The Netherlands.

Marisa Yeaman is a truly independent artist, producing and releasing her own
records and carving her own following through her captivating live
performances. An authentic and intimate performer, she writes with the eye of
a journalist, and the heart of a traveller. This female troubadour continues to
traverse the world touching audiences large and small.