Kings spot,London
The singer and guitarist showcase their award-nominated unique album and find time to pay clever tribute to the wider Waterson folk clanMarry Waterson explains that she has two voices. There’s the powerful one that you would expect to hear as she strides to the front of the stage with her hands on her hips. And then there’s the intimate, breathy style that dominates her unique album Two Wolves, and a collaboration with the laid-back acoustic guitarist David A Jaycock which has won them two nominations for this month’s BBC Folk awards.
Here they were joined by fiddler Alison Cotton and the album’s two producers,with Kate St John playing piano, accordion and oboe, or Neill MacColl surrounded by an array of instruments,including banjo and electric guitar. They added textures and embellishment to songs that were often dreamlike, surreal and mysterious, or dealt with memories of childhood and themes that ranged from creativity and self-doubt (Digging for Diamonds) to the survival of village communities (Hoping to be Saved) or positive thinking (the inspired title track,which included some muted wolf-like howls). The reflective mood was interrupted by the occasional more edgy piece like Emotional Vampire, here given extra bite thanks to MacColl’s electric guitar.
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Source: theguardian.com