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Acoustic, singer-songwriter, folk, Isle Of Bute.

Parenthesis, I, Josienne Clarke’s latest album, follows on from last year’s Onliness, with the musicians involved in that release lending their support once again on this collection of new material: Alec Bowman-Clarke on bass, Dave Hamblett on drums, and Matt Robinson on keyboards. Josienne plays guitar, clarinet, recorder, and saxophone.

The songs are often deeply confessional, albeit couched in oblique and metaphorical imagery, a case in point being the airy, shuffling opener Friendly Teeth, a song about needing people to be honest with her (“there’s nothing more ugly than lies upon lies upon lies… I’ve been everyone’s fool/And lies are the harshest cruelty”), about making her own decisions (“An ounce of trepidation in my step/With a slight discomfort in my zone/To leap, carefully, into the unknown”) and calling for a “truth so strong/That it comes right up and bites you on the shoulder with its friendly teeth”.

Lange review: https://klofmag.com/2024/05/josienne-clarke-parenthesis-i/

Tracks:
01. Friendly Teeth
02. Spherical
03. Fear Of Falling
04. Do You Know Now
05. Looking Glass
06. Forbearing
07. Most Of All
08. Double-Edged Sword
09. FireCracker
10. Dead Woman's Bones
11. The Calm
12. Parenthesis, I
13. Magic Somehow

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJBDza-itZc