Hayley Hutchinson - Hawks To The Wind (2011) - CD RIP - MP3 [320 kbps CBR] - Includes Cover - iP00D

Hayley Hutchinson is a folk/acoustic rock singer from the Yorkshire Wolds, England, who has released four solo albums and is also a member of The Sorry Kisses.

Hutchinson is the daughter of John Hutchinson, who played with David Bowie in the 1960s and in the 1970s as one of the 'Spiders From Mars'. She grew up in Scotland and moved to York in her teens. Hayley's musical career began at school, when her band won York's first inter-schools battle of the bands contest, when she was 14. She was a member of the short-lived band Freeb, before going solo in 2000.

Her music has been praised by BBC Radio 1's OneMusic, Bob Harris, and David Bowie, as well as receiving regular airplay on BBC Radio 2, particularly from Terry Wogan.

After a single, "Here's The Love", her first album, Independently Blue was recorded in 2005 at a York studio in less than a week. Critical reaction was positive. The album is a dazzling collection of haunting folk lullabies and rootsy acoustic pop that merited a Guardian Single of the Week, extensive BBC Radio 2 airplay and caused Uncut magazine to herald her as ‘love-starved Joni Mitchell’.

A second album, Love Songs For The Enemy, followed in 2008. It was recorded in winter in the German Black Forest and was produced by Hayley Hutchinson and singer-songwriter Iain Archer. It also features musicians Sam Forrest, Iain Archer and Miriam Kaufmann. All songs were written by Hutchinson.

She has performed at several major festivals, including the Big Session, Summer Sundae, and South by Southwest in Texas in 2006, and Glastonbury in 2007.

Hutchinson is also a member of The Sorry Kisses along with Sam Forrest of Nine Black Alps.
She co-wrote and recorded the song "Pocket Full Of Stars" with Nine Black Alps for the soundtrack of the Academy Award-nominated film Surf's Up.

In 2009 her band The Sorry Kisses released their second album Um And Ah with tracks being featured on Nic Harcourts show on KCRW Los Angeles. Her song "Abandon Ship" was featured on the hit American TV show Grey's Anatomy in 2010.

Her third solo album Ghosts In The Trees was released in 2010 on Desert Mine Music. It was written by her Sorry Kisses bandmate Sam Forrest and also features a cover version of Françoise Hardy's "Tous Les Garcons Et Les Filles". Hutchinson produced and recorded the album at her home in the Yorkshire Wolds.

Hutchinson continues to play solo and with her band and also features on albums by the likes of Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Keegan Snaize, and Sam Forrest. She is also a freelance Illustrator, mainly focusing on children's book illustrations and fashion illustrations which go under the name The Art Hutch.

She wrote her first film soundtrack with Sam Forrest for the Independent film Crimefighters which was premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2010.

In 2011 Hutchinson continued working with her band The Sorry Kisses, releasing their third album Keep Smiling on their own Desert Mine Music label.

In 2012 she released her fourth solo album 'Hawks To The Wind' which was recorded at her home in the Yorkshire Wolds. It is a welcome return to Hayley's solo songwriting and features a talented array of musicians giving it a rootsy, eclectic feel.