Nicola Schultz

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Searching for the Goddess songs are ones of hope and loss, trying to find some light when it all seems so dark.

I jumped off the stage in 1997 to get my photo taken with someone in the audience. I turned around to get back up, but the stage was too high, I had to walk around the back. It was symbolic of my departure from the live music circuit a few months later.

I moved from Sydney in 2001, drawn to an island in Moreton Bay for a few years, and then left Brisbane for a larger island, Tasmania, to travel around on the back of a motorbike, with three bags and a tent.

After a crash and a rural retreat for recovery, we were mobile again and kept travelling around Tasmania, and then to Vietnam and Thailand. Vietnam was a profound experience. Strangely, Tasmania was drawing us back, seeing its local produce in Vietnam, and the agricultural landscape in the highlands of Dalat was not dissimilar. On our return, I began writing about the past couple of years, going through journals, slowly developing an idea for a fiction book, which I hope to finish soon.

I've been living with these four songs a long time, singing them in the bedroom, the lounge room, by the water. At Port Arthur's chapel with the segregated prison pews I sang Flowers for healing and again in a Viet Cong hospital cave in Vietnam at dawn, and finally the songs are ready for release.

Nature has had to take its course. After doing demos first on 4-track, then 18-track, Producer/Engineer Mickey Levis brought his talent and multi-instrumentation to lift them. The music recordings, lying dormant since the travelling began, were mixed in an isolated shack in Byron Bay late last year.

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