Helen Mottee's latest CD now available

Helen Mottee has just released her latest CD, "Letters from the 5th Estate". This album, perhaps more than any other, shares the voices of the hurting and encourages all of us to listen, understand, and respond. As befitting the heart of the CD, it was officially launched on World Refugee Day, 20 June, 2008, and is now available at Global Handicrafts.

Helen is an award winning singer/song-writer who loves nothing more than to sing, play and show images of people in need in our dysfunctional world.  Here are her words describing the new album.

Victor Hugo said, ‘Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.’

This aptly summarises why we have recorded this new album.

Working with an international NGO for the last year, my family and I have had the privilege not only of meeting many extraordinary people from around the world, but also slowly of gaining a deeper understanding of what the ‘real’ world is for the majority of the globe’s population.

Refugees, child soldiers, AIDS sufferers, those who have experienced the horrors of ethnic and religious cleansing - these are no longer statistics on a page or stories in a book. I have been privileged to meet, talk and share a meal with people who are, or have been, these things. It is from such experiences and relationships that the new songs have been born.

The vision for this album is to be a collection of musical 'letters' or 'photographs', and that those who listen to the songs will not only be moved by the message, but inspired, even spurred on, to act in some way themselves.

Please visit or contact Global Handicrafts if you would like to order copies of this new album for yourself or as gifts for others.