Artist Close-Up: Nadine Khouri Makes You Feel “The Salted Air”

Nadine Khouri’s The Salted Air is like taking a spiritual retreat through music. In 10 tracks, you feel taken to a beach under the stars, and asked to put your woes on paper and the paper into a bonfire. I know that sound humorous, but as a person who has been to spiritual retreats; investing in catharsis and healing means doing things that sound “funny” but feel helpful. Luckily, The Salted Air sounds gorgeous but is no less helpful in giving you almost a solid hour of therapy.

From the quick bongo in “Shake It Like A Shaman” or the gentle guitar strum of “Broken Star”, The Salted Air feels like a sonic journey into discovering how you became so “broken” or why certain parts of your heart/mind have not healed. Now I am not calling you crazy (lol!). Yet, everybody suffers and has bits of their spirit that cannot seem to repair themselves past certain memories of meanness, to which Khouri’s voice symbolizes both your sadness and the strength you need to over come it. She sings into her songs a smokey whispery vocal, as if her voice is the bonfire you are throwing your papered woes into. Tracks like “Thru You I Awaken”, “Daybreak”, and “Catapult” feel like the “beginning of something”. Considering that this is an album about or promoting self-healing, maybe, it is the beginning of you. A “you” without pain or remorse as seen in “Surface of The Sea” or “You Got A Fire”, where Khouri sings to the moments when we allow ourselves to be the most loving, the most kind, and even the most vibrant in a room.

I always find it ironic, but telling to humanity’s current state that, usually, we deem the things that are creative and spiritually shining “corny” or “nerdy” like, the arts or self-healing. We will up funds to war but slash them to art. Why is it that the things that makes us feel good or even God, we deem ourselves too unworthy? Khouri shows us that the fact that we feel good by doing good means we are good. Thus, I would love to live in The Salted Air she feels, because not only does it involve a beating drum and a slow guitar, but it also involves a thinking mind and a feeling heart. For More Information On Nadine Khouri or to Buy The Salted Air  Click Here.