Saturday, March 23, 2013

Mama Kin - 7 March 2013, Black Bear Lodge

w/ Spender

Celebrating the release of her latest full length LP, Danielle Caruana AKA Mama Kin, graced the Black bear Lodge with her melodious presence along with the vibrant Spender.

From just looking at the 6-foot plus Spender, I would have picked him for the type of music he performed tonight. I am definitely ok with being proven wrong. I have always admired people who can work with loops to create something extraordinary, and Spender created all of his material in such a way that made it fascinating to not only watch but also listen to. The song “Never Again” was such an intense song that utilised guitar loops, vocal loops and saxophone loops. All of his songs had such dense layering with multiple harmonies layered on top of each other to create his backing track. A pretty rad artist.

Mama Kin has such a presence about her. Her voice has such a beautifully natural tone and vibrato and is seemingly so effortless. She performed the majority of songs her latest LP The Magician’s Daughter as well as some track from her 2010 release Beat and Holler. She opened with “Cherokee Boy” a rather depressing way to begin, yet at the same time the perfect way. It was a strange experience. She moved quickly onto her more up tempo tunes including “Rescue” a rather rad song about nod needing rescuing like the princesses in the fairy tails.

She played “To My Table”, “Tore My Heart Out” and “My Friend” from her previous release as well as other well loved songs from her collection. But it was how she presented her latest material that really impressive. If anything, I feel she talks too much between songs, and they could have played more music if there hadn’t had been so much idle chatter, but that’s why we go to gigs right, to get the whole package. Otherwise we’d all just sit in our small dark rooms and listen to CDs every night.
The highlight of the set was definitely one of her new songs “I’ll Be Ready”. The harmonies created were just exquisite! The type of music where you want the chorus to go on and on and never end. This is pretty much what happened. The repeated the chorus for what seemed an age, and it was the best thing ever.

Mama Kin certainly is a unique performer embracing and being completely true to what she wants to achieve as an artist. Her latest record The Magician’s Daughter is out now.

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