![]() With Bulat’s focus on the love she feels - whether it be for her family or her wayward companions and friends - these songs become vitally linked to personal heritage. Still, as diverse as Heart of My Own is, ‘folk music’ remains at its core. And on “Once More, For the Dollhouse,” Bulat sounds like a honky-tonk chanteuse (read: Neko Case). “If Only You” and “Walk You Down” are up-tempo, rollicking songs that run contrary to the regret and uncertainty looming in the lyrics. Strings and brass inject emotion into many of the album’s otherwise pensive and desolate acoustic numbers. “Run” and “Heart of My Own” are more solemn affairs that find Bulat ruminating over her coarsely strummed autoharp. Opener “Go On” begins with dusty acoustic guitar chords that break down into a Celtic-flavored reel. Though Bulat presents them uniquely, strains of English and Celtic folk, country, chamber, and Tin Pan Alley pop are woven throughout. On “Sugar and Spice,” she laments, “Oh, I’ve done myself in.” Offering herself no consolation, she later reasons in her soaring, warbling alto, “I looked for the road/ But all I could see was the dust.” Elsewhere, “If Only You” plays jubilant horns against the futile choral plea, “If only you, you, you would take me back.” Such notions frame every song on the album and complete a portrait of Bulat that’s endearing and disarming in its uninhibited passion.Įxpertly and diversely arranged, the songs of Heart of My Own build and hover, often in surprising ways. This album in its sparse and lush beauty is the description of a heart, one filled with yearning and vulnerability. Both on her spotty but endearing debut Oh, My Darling and on this year’s heart-wrenching tour de force Heart of My Own, Bulat weaves personal confession with strains of heritage and tradition.ĭifferentiating herself from Joanna Newsom, the contemporary artist most readily analogous to Bulat, she conveys both musical and narrative themes in contrastingly straightforward ways. Ontario-based singer/songwriter Basia Bulat, however - with her tendency for traditional, ethereal instrumentation and wrought introspection - treads comfortably between the two camps. ![]() In the indie music world, nearly all ‘folk’ artists fall into this latter category, with their generation-defining futuristic scope and DIY-D (do it yourself - digitally) attitude toward recording. For others, it’s merely a style focused solely on the aforementioned sound, but meandering in its narrative. For some, it’s the revelation of social, political, or cultural phenomena through simple and overwhelmingly acoustic musical and lyrical forms. It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God.‘Folk music’ means different things to different people. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system. In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon. ![]()
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