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Crystalline Melbourne songwriter Tammy Haider’s debut solo album, The One, is an interplay of the organic and the experimental; a humour of the mind, an ache of the heart, drawing the listener close like a confidant. Whilst Tammy Haider loves and lives to play music, her lifestyle as a musician is slightly atypical. Rather than inhabiting the clichés of inner city life ­ soaking up sound, living after dark, and falling into dangerous adventures with all the right people ­ Haider prefers a splendid isolation, more akin to a poet or short storywriter. “It’s how I make sense of my life”, Haider explains. “I know I can write a good song, that’s a really powerful thing – I’m blessed I can do that. I like taking myself away, not being around people.” Domiciled in Berlin for several years, Haider got hungry – hungry for new experience, new music, and new ways of creating. Leaving her much loved ambient/alt.country duo Royalchord behind in Berlin, Haider circled back to Melbourne with a