After a successful weekend of launch events ‘Sing with a Mermaid’ at the New Zealand Maritime Musuem in Auckland, children’s music artist Claudia Robin Gunn is thrilled to share some early press that has been published this week about her new Creative NZ funded album Sing for the Sea - Little Wild Ocean Friends.
The tunes have been sailing their way through the audio ocean and managed to catch the ear of Baltimore music writer Greg Walker at @PrismReviews and New York digital media maven and children’s music reviewer Jeffrey Cohen (Geekdad, @MrJeff2000) who writes:
“If Florence and the Machine recorded an album of songs about the ocean and conservation, it would probably sound like Claudia Robin Gunn’s new collection, SING FOR THE SEA”
"one of the wonders of this collection of songs (as well as the music that she’s written that has come before it) is that she could easily fit in the canon of great women songwriters before her: Sarah McLaughlin, Taylor Swift, Imogen Heap...Claudia Robin Gunn has the privilege of not only being a killer songwriter but also of living on the beautiful sea-surrounded island of New Zealand... This album is an album children around the world need and would love to hear."
July 15th sees the companion instrumental release for this album - designed to help kids and families access the music for easy sing alongs in tandem with the chords and lyric book Claudia and her sister Melissa R Gunn have created, with illustrations throughout by artist Elise De Silva.