Peaceful Warrior – A 2025 Feminist Song Cycle

‘Peaceful Warrior’ is a new feminist song cycle and the second album created by Professor Sophie Daniels aka ‘Liberty’s Mother.’ Whilst the first LMEP in 2019, was an awareness raising and charitable community piece for babyloss awareness, record two is a war cry speaking to the collective grief of a generation of women railing against the lies sold to them about ‘having it all’, as they labour under the patriarchy, and raise children under a microscope in a world where the future is uncertain and misogyny is on the rise.

The songs are co-written by a team of acclaimed female singer/songwriters and artists, with instrumental and spoken word contributions by female musicians and singers and the record is created by award winning artist and record producer Dr. Catherine Davies aka The Anchoress.

The record comprises six songs over twenty five minutes and follows a loose through narrative which discusses; internalised sexism, rage against the patriarchy and a world at war run by men. The song cycle puts forward a powerful case for the importance of gender equality in songwriting and creation more broadly, and was devised as a research/practice project speaking to Professor Daniels pioneering work (and forthcoming book), looking at: ‘Why It Matters Who Writes The Songs Which Soundtrack our Lives’.

The Team

Professor Sophie Daniels aka Liberty’s Mother

A former commercial music professional working directly for Simon Cowell, Sophie is now the UKs first female Professor of Songwriting and a pioneer in the areas of; songwriting education, research into the ‘humanity of songs’ and a gender equality public speaker and campaigner. Professor Daniels founded and runs the largest Masters programme and songwriting research community in the world, in London at The Institute Contemporary Music (ICMP).

Sophie appears regularly on BBC6 Music at Drivetime as a ‘Six Musicologist’, is a Director of UK cic The F List and makes song work under the artist name ‘Liberty’s Mother’. This name was inspired by her late daughter Liberty, and a music project concept that originally came about due to her awareness raising work on behalf of the UK Governments All Party Parliamentary Group for Baby Loss.

Dr. Catherine Davies aka The Anchoress

Welsh producer and multi-instrumentalist Catherine Anne Davies aka The Anchoress has been twice nominated for the Welsh Music Prize and previously collaborated with Manic Street Preachers, Bernard Butler and Simple Minds.

Catherine’s work as an artist and producer has had significant critical acclaim including Elton John as one of her fans. She is one of the most interesting up-and-coming songwriters and producers in the UK and has been nominated for the prestigious Music Producers Guild Awards in both 2022 and 2023.

Her Welsh Music Prize nominated self-produced second album as The Anchoress, The Art of Losing was both critically-lauded and achieved a Top 10 position in the UK physical album charts, as well as the #1 spot on iTunes. Album of the Year plaudits came from the Sunday Times, Record Collector, Line of Best Fit, Mail on Sunday, The Sun, and Prog Magazine.

The All Female Team for Peaceful Warrior

This song cycle is researched, written, produced, played, recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered entirely by female artists. This is in itself an extraordinary and in some ways unique piece of art and activism. All the creatives are working music professionals.

The song cycle is a piece of research/practice as an exploration into sexism within songcraft, creative process, song subject matter and record production. This process has also been catalogued and is being documented and presented at various conferences in 2025 and will be made into a documentary following the launch of the research at The F List Conference in May 2025.

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