Chanson-style with a jazz-blues bent, this easy listening, alternative album is full of reality. The humanness of all the songs can only be described as sacred. Each word, each note, and the dance of the two, give glimpses into the soul.
- Genre: Easy Listening: Vocal Pop
- Release Date: 2005
Autistic singer songwriter, Donna Williams, is a lyrically powerful and vocally moving artist with an idiosyncratic style and a voice of striking honesty and warmth. Following on from her first album, Nobody Nowhere, Mutation is her amazing second album and individual tracks are also available on iTunes.
Donna Williams' voice, whilst a style and sound all its own has been compared with artists like Missy Higgins, Jewel, Corinne Bailey Rae, Nathalie Maines (of the Dixie Chicks), Tori Amos, Nanci Griffith, Juliana Hatfield, Helen Reddy and Karen Carpenter.
The Mutation CD has a classy, contemporary surrealism that combines great, incredibly catchy music with soaring atmospheric spoken word pieces and songs , awe inspiring musicianship and scintillating effects yet maintains a surprisingly 'natural' feel to it.
Mutation is as moving as it is socially challenging, like in the contemporary dance track, 'Subtlety'. Then in other tracks like 'Mirror', she hauntingly combines poetry and spoken word with a moving song and beautiful, pure vocals, in a way that almost creates almost the essence of ghosts within one's own world. She confronts discrimination in tracks like 'All Be Happy' and addresses the essential soul survival inherent in defending the right to be oneself in 'Simply Be'.
The Mutation CD is also filled with humour and quirky surrealism like in poetic, atmospheric spoken-word tracks like 'When Mitzy Flew' and the haunting poem of 'Before Mind 'is intricately woven into a musical backdrop and leads seamlessly, like the other spoken word tracks into the abundance of song tracks in between.
Mutation is a revolutionary album, challenging the right of society to segregate and subjugate its citizens like in her title track 'Mutation'.
Mutation is powerful musical therapy that covers the whole spectrum of emotions and delivers you gently back to shore after the adventure.
You'll find belonging and understanding in 'Mutation' and the album includes a lyrics booklet with lyrics to all songs on the album.
Don't forget to also check out Donna's first CD, 'Nobody Nowhere' at http://www.cdbaby.com/donnaw
her second album 'Mutation' at http://www.cdbaby.com/donnaw2 and her album, 'Broken Biscuit' recorded with Donna And The Aspinauts at http://www.cdbaby.com/donnaw3 and Baloombawop at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/donnawilliams.
You can order individual songs via itunes using the following link:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=79204281
The first time ever
It's the first time I've ever been so touched by music. I was diagnosed with PDD just about the time I found Mutation on the Internet, and just listening to the songs, especially All Be Happy and Beautiful Behavioural Mutations, always makes me feel like I belong. I cannot thank Donna enough for this!
MUTATION
This CD is hypnotic! The unusual musical style, warm vocals and lyrics from the heart all combine to make this a one of a kind experience! I listen to it over and over and each time my heart soars.
Beautiful!
Wow!, this is an excellent CD, there wasn't a single song i didn't like on the whole album and i cant remember the last time that happened (if ever!). Even my Autistic son comes running over to the CD player grinning when Beautiful Behavioural Mutations comes on!
All i can say is..........Wonderful!
mutation
Incredible,amazing a delight to listen to,theres not much more i can say except.... wow!!!!
BEAUTIFUL Mutation
Some writers and some singers give words for things many of us felt but didn't know how to say. This is one of them. I plan to show some of these songs to NTs I work with, for Autism Awareness... the good kind!