RockOm

As it turns out, Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter Carly Simon has a mystical side that is rarely made public. She shares with RockOm this week about using music to connect with others, as prayer and as a way to heal the world in Carly Simon Hears the Voice of God. Also in this interview you can preview and find out details about her latest album, Never Been Gone.

Also be sure to check out our new Featured Track of the Week from indie-folk rocker Heather Maloney. Hear Heather's song "Let It Ache" - about realizing that pain is just part of the human experience - all week long in the right column of the home page.

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At the age of 21, Heather Maloney began her musical career performing as a jazz singer alongside Grammy nominee Hui Cox in Manhattan. Her varied musical interests over the years (Joni Mitchell, Bobby McFerrin, Billy Holiday, The Beatles, Phillip Glass, Ravi Shankhar) began to shape a sound that would become distinctly her own. After studying classical operatic vocals, classical Indian and jazz, she booked it up to the woods of Massachusetts to focus on her growing interest in meditation. Heather has been living at a meditation retreat center for the past two years, where her current album, Cozy Razor's Edge, has slowly brewed in her solitude - a compilation of folk/indie/pop-rock songs directly affected by her experiences in meditation.

Featured Track: "Let It Ache"

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"I was sitting a week long silent meditation retreat and my heart was aching. For a couple of days I was coming up with a number of stories as to why it was aching. Then came a moment when I said to myself, 'Oh this is just heartache. I can be with this. I don't need to figure it out to make it go away.' This song serves as a reminder that suffering and pain is part of the human experience and it's OK. Not only is it OK, it's fertile ground to grow from." (Heather)