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Kathryn Williams
Often mentioned in the same breath as Nick Drake, Liverpudlian folksmith Kathryn William's debut album comes hushed in the same otherworldly mystique as Drake's Bryter Later or Pink Moon, a world away from the kooky clichés of the lucrative singer-songwriter market. Williams is a fiercely independent artist; it's entirely possible that Little Black Numbers would exist, were it not for the unsolicited enthusiasm of the press and the strident patronage of a small, but perfectly formed cult-following. It's easy to see why Williams inspires such adulation, though--Little Black Numbers is warm, unforced, and straight from the heart: "I used to foll...
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Kathryn Williams & Neill MacColl
Kathryn Williams has a voice like a tatty old pair of slippers. Which might seem an unkind thing to say, but the point is that when she starts singing you're overcome with that immediate warm rush of familiarity, your shoulders retreat from their uniform rigidity and every tension point in your body dissipates like a circular ripple on a lake's surface. And she has proven herself time and time again, since 2000's Mercury-nominated Little Black Numbers, with delicate, discerning folk music, weaving a consuming web of light and shade across life's small details. She is a tested comfort. We could have more charitably likened her to a scented bath in low light, or melt...
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Kathryn Williams
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Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra
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Kathryn Williams
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Kathryn Williams
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Artist:
Kathryn Williams
Kathryn Williams, who claims to have recorded Relations to help herself "fall in love with music again", aims high with her choice of songs--artists covered include Leonard Cohen, Nirvana, Tim Hardin, Neil Young, Lee Hazlewood, Lou Reed, The Byrds and Big Star--but there's an essential modesty to her approach that makes Relations sound much more like affectionate homage than the usual state of affairs with cover albums; (generally colossal self-indulgences by spent or non-existent talents seeking to prop themselves up with the work of superior performers--the musical equivalent of stalkers posing for photographs with bewildered celebrities). Not quite al...
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Kathryn Williams
Old Low Light arrives two years on from the surprise Mercury Music Prize nomination of Kathryn Williams' sophomore album, Little Black Numbers, and the feisty songstress has arisen with her gorgeous brand of tender folk intact. But while this, her major label debut, is as musically sparse and lyrically intimate as any of her previous work, the subject matter is often several shades darker. While covering everything from death to loneliness, Williams' unpretentious outlook and self-effacing wry wit make for an enchanting narrative. "No One Takes You Home" is a perfect example: "You've watched all the romance on your television / It's too much to bear you got ...
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,
London Philharmonic Orchestra,
Philharmonia Orchestra,
Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra
This attractive three-CD compilation does exactly what it claims to do--that is, contain more than three hours of relaxing music. Surprisingly, it also includes a few left-field gems in with the usual suspects, thus in addition to Grieg's "Morning" from the Peer Gynt Suite No.1 (smoothly played by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra) and "Vocalise" by Rachmaninov (USSR Symphony Orchestra) there are also performances of the much less well-known "La Calinda" from Delius' opera Koanga (Northern Symphonia of England) and Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus" by Vaughan Williams (Philharmonia Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin). Apart from a few questionable choices ...
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