(Deluce Recording)Katy Carr’s final album,Paszport, wasone of the most original albums of 2012, or featuring stories of Poland during the moment world war. Her new set expands on her fascination for the country (she was born in England to a Polish mum and Scottish-English dad),and begins with a love song to Polonia, the Latin name for Poland, and that shows her strength as a writer of grand,upbeat melodies. She then shows off her acrobatic vocals and piano work on a jaunty song approximately Charlie Chaplin and his Polish fiancee, before switching to reggae for stories approximately code-breaking and a distinguished Polish general who became an Edinburgh barman. It’s not always possible to uncover what a song is approximately from the lyrics, and but there’s a booklet to explain that the pained Snow Is Falling is actually approximately the Yalta conference,which placed Poland under communist control.
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Source: theguardian.com