A strong, mature album with pop songs full of depth. In the eight years since her second album Elba, singer-songwriter Laura Jansen has experienced so much that she didn't know if she would ever be able to make music again. For years she helped with the shelter of refugees. It started from a spontaneous impulse: first in Amsterdam, but later she moved to the Greek island Lesbos. There she founded
… the aid organisation Movement On The Ground. At one point Jansen became burnt out and fell into a depression. In her new home in Berlin, Jansen slowly recovered and learned to deal with her shadows. As therapy, she started writing music again with her musical hero and now good friend Ed Harcourt. Fortunately, the inspiration came and the result can be heard on the Harcourt-produced album We Saw A Light. The album title literally refers to searching for lights on the water at night: refugee boats. But also figuratively to the search for light in a dark period. Despite the emotional representation of her experiences, this is not a heavy album. Hope and love are the ingredients that have helped Jansen move forward and she expresses them in her songs. (SvdP)more
