Heath Cullen returns with his first new album in five years, Springtime In The Heart, recorded with three time Grammy-winning producer Joe Henry, to be unveiled on April 17th, 2020.

Debut track Things Are Looking Up is available now as an instant download with all pre-orders of the album (digital, vinyl or CD) from www.music.heathcullen.com. It is released today accompanied by this film clip featuring rare and stunning footage from NASA which shows the reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere of the Gemini II spacecraft in January of 1965.

Says Cullen: “I had planned to release this song on New Year's Day as a kind of ‘Happy New Year’ update from my home on Australia’s NSW South Coast. Instead, I spent New Year’s Day at a bushfire evacuation centre under a red and smoky sky raining ash and blackened leaves, huddled together with my community as a firestorm roared down on our beautiful valley... it was the most terrifying thing I've ever been through. Those same fires have been burning for five weeks. My plans were put on hold while the month of January unfolded like a never-ending bad dream, with the constant threat of an encroaching blaze never far from home, always at the whim of the wind and weather. There were more scary days like the first one. The flames finally reached my family’s farm on February 1st, and as I write, there are still columns of smoke rising from the hills all around us. At night the mountains glow red. My home is still standing but hundreds of homes in our community and thousands around Australia have been lost, and when I think of the environmental devastation that these fires have caused nationwide... it's just heartbreaking. ”

“The Australian fires of 2019/2020 are a global catastrophe and an ecological emergency, and are a direct result of the human-induced climate change that scientists have been warning us of for decades. We must demand that our elected representatives heed the advice of scientists and experts and take solid action towards ending our fossil fuel addiction immediately.”

Footage credit: NASA. This video shows the reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere of the Gemini II spacecraft in January of 1965. The video is played here at double speed.