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#### KARAN CASEY Hieroglyphs That Tell The Tale

Philippe Cousin Eighth album for Karan Casey, the singer from Cork who had not recorded since 2013. While his previous album was the most personal of his career with eleven tracks that she composed, Karan returns with Hieroglyphs That Tell The Tale, an album more in line with what we used to hear from her. A clever mix of contemporary songs and original compositions, there is only one traditional Sixteen Come Next Sunday popularized many years ago by the Bothy Band, and again with a very jazzy touch highlighted by the discreet concertina of his companion Niall Vallely.

Karan Casey has always chosen to perform songs with a very strong social resonance. This is the case with Bob Dylan's Hollis Brown. It also gives priority to the fight against war, for freedom and equity for women. Her songs reflect, she emphasizes, life as she sees it and conceives it. She wrote three songs, including the magnificent Down in the Glen, a tribute to Julia Grennan and Elizabeth O'Farrell, two women strongly involved in the 1916 Easter uprising.

To produce this superb album, Karan did not hesitate to call on the ban and the back ban of Irish and Scottish music. Almost twenty-five guests. Most of the arrangements are by guitarist Sean Óg Graham and Scotsman Donald Shaw, who also produces the album. No wonder then to find several members of Capercaillie: Ewen Vernal, James MacKintosh or Michael McGoldrick. And then the delicate and expressive voices of Karen Matheson, Pauline Scanlon, Niamh Dunne, Maura O'Connell and Aoife O'Donovan.

A record that sounds traditional, country or sometimes jazzy. Undoubtedly one of the best albums of one of the most beautiful Irish voices. VerticalEn poursuivant VERTCD113 votre -navigation www.verticalrecords.co.uk sur ce site, vous acceptez (http://www.verticalrecords.co.uk) l’utilisation de cookies notamment pour réaliser des × statistiques de visites afin d’optimiser la fonctionnalité du site.