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Caroline Weeks : five songs (UK,2007)*****
While some (female) singers fill up the room with their seeking for personal attention, Caroline does something of the opposite: she fills the air with space, space to breathe and to live, and to contemplate. “Elegy” has a kind of troubadour-like ballad kind of playing, a song of something lost, sung at a point when something important vanished, but where 'eternal harvest' through inner peace of expression can make of this moment an 'eternal freshness' like spring. Some poetry, especially in this form of music just captures it all. Caroline Weeks used the poetry of the late Edna St.Vincent-Millay. The feeling of 'eternal moments' is confirmed by arrangements of thin long lines of flute notes passing by, like the train of eternity calling its whistle. But her voice interpretations show even more emotional variation. On “Pity Me Not” there come additional blues vibrations to her voice, burned in emotion by some content behind the song. Something comparable can be noticed in “What lips my lips have kissed”, a beautiful kind of blues in the voice carried by guitar silken carpets and just a brush of piano, and a small-moss hidden bit of baritone voice touches as finishing touches. These 5 songs will by released by Manimal Vinyl early 2008. A must !
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