Karine Polwart Lyrics Do You Know the Way Where My Love Goes
The Mareel auditorium provided the perfect venue for the Karine Polwart Trio last Fri night, for what proved to be a very special dark of music.
Since her first visit to Shetland back in 2002 with the Scottish folk band, Malinky, Karine has forged her own solo career and is quite rightly at present regarded every bit one of Scotland'southward finest singer/songwriters. As the audition made their way to their seats there was a sense of anticipation.
Kickoff we were treated to a short solo spot from Shetland singer/songwriter, Malachy Tallack.
This may accept been Shetland audiences' last take a chance to see Malachy perform for a while, as he explained he was moving to Glasgow a couple of days after the gig. It is perhaps apt then, with this life alter planned, that Malachy chose to start his set up with the cocky-penned song Leaving My Old Self Backside. This upbeat number was a great way to kick off the set and is one of the songs Malachy has worked on with his band line-up, Country & Northern.
The material he has written under this guise has allowed audiences to encounter a less serious side of Malachy, and this was again evident in his tribute to a sure alcoholic drinkable in Silver and Yellow Can of Dreams. For the reviewer, who is a fan of the melancholy, my option of the prepare was the beautiful A Space recorded on his album From the Thorn. Lyrically, this song seemed in keeping with what was still to come from the main act of the evening.
Following Malachy's brusk gear up, Karine took straight to the stage, accompanied by her brother, Steven Polwart (on guitars and vocals), and Shetland's ain Inge Thomson (on accordion, vocals and various percussive instruments). What was clear from the offset is the tightness of this talented trio. There are no egos at play, with the three individuals focused only on the commitment of the songs. It is so easy to over-play, merely every note and beat, sung or played, had been carefully planned, with advisable space left to course the atmospheric backdrop to Karine's perfectly crafted lyrics.
Over the class of the night we were treated to a selection of songs from Karine's back catalogue, with more significant focus on material from her most contempo anthology Traces. Karine's voice has the ability to sound delicate and strong at the same fourth dimension and shares equal billing with her songwriting skills. Her songs accept their roots in traditional Scottish folk music, with a strong sense of time and place embedded in every line. Early on this was demonstrated in her tribute to her former neighbor, Molly Kirstensen, Salter's Road.
Politically aware, Karine's songs oftentimes champion the views of herself or others. With clever imagery in Encompass Your Eyes she pays tribute to the homeowners who have resisted attempts to be moved from their homes on the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire where Donald Trump chose to put a golf course. She as well took the gamble in her introduction to poke some fun at Mr Thump's hairdo!
The highlight of the first half for me had to be Waterlily. Based on the volume Common cold Night Lullaby past Colin MacKay, the song tells the badly sad story of his lover, Svetlana, and her two children beingness killed during the war in Bosnia. I know this incredibly powerful song brought many of the audience to tears and I take been left with the chorus running effectually my head for the days following the concert.
Many of Karine's song do have serious themes, so it was cracking see her kick off the second half of the set up with the calorie-free-hearted John C Clark (The Gasman Vocal), a tongue-in-cheek vocal about a love affair with, you've guessed it, a Gasman. There were a few chuckles every bit she performed this one on her ain, before Steven and Inge re-joined her.
The youngest member of the audience on the night was an infant, complete with incredibly cute ear protectors. Having spotted this early on on in the testify, Karine chose to dedicate the song Rivers Run, written after the birth of her ain son, to the infant. This is a lovely song, which manages non to fall into the trap of being overly sentimental.
Inge was and so given the spotlight. She explained that she was going to exercise a song about boats. Commonly at this betoken in the show she would talk at some length about this, simply given it was Shetland she didn't run into the demand. Inge's voice is soft, with an almost artless quality to it. This perfectly complements Karine's vocalism, simply was equally endearing on this song, on which she used vocal looping and a range of the instruments at her disposal to create a musical seascape for her solo voyage.
A few more songs from the trio, including some poetic, historical licence on Sorrowlessfield,and all too presently Karine was introducing the final number. While Steven and Inge set the scene musically, Karine explained the story behind Male monarch Of Birds, another of the tracks on her latest release. Every bit we all pictured the wren taking his identify as the Male monarch of Birds, the trio'southward voices soared to a stunning conclusion which left the audience calling out for more than.
We were obliged with ane further song,Follow The Heron, a song Karine explained had been written on her first trip to Shetland. This was defended to Inge'southward cousin, the late Lise Sinclair, who I know would have loved this show, and brought proceedings to a fitting finish. Karine at times seems most atoning on stage for taking upwards the listener'due south time, merely this was a night not to be missed and the audition left with her beautiful songs ringing in their ears.
Sheila Duncan
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Source: https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2013/10/20/audience-left-with-polwarts-beautiful-songs-ringing-in-their-ears
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