Birds On A Wire

Description

A magnificent story of encounters. First, that of a singer, Rosemary Standley, and a show producer, Madamelune, who have the desire to create a duo of covers with only a voice and an instrument. Dom La Nena, a young cellist and multi-talented singer, then joins the singer from Moriarty. The chemistry is immediate: from the very first rehearsal, there is the impression that we are dealing with two sisters who spent their youth playing music in the same room, in the evening, by the light of a bedside lamp. Between the Franco-American and the Brazilian, the repertoires exchange and clash: classical, folk, American or Argentine traditional; in Italian, English, Réunionese, Spanish, Arabic. From Henry Purcell to Tom Waits, passing through Stefano Landi, Violetta Parra, and Leonard Cohen, these two birds on a wire are ready for a tour of about thirty dates. These live miscellanies must absolutely be immortalized, to be the subject of a collection that one could take with them. The album is essential: moving, delicate, fragile, stripped down, radiating grace and naturalness, Birds on a wire, released by Air Rytmo, an anagram label of Moriarty, is like a photo album that one flips through, and then memories come back: we cry with All the World is Green by Tom Waits or Oh My Love by John Lennon, we shiver with Blessed is the memory by Leonard Cohen, we laugh at Sambinha by Dom La Nena, we hyperventilate on Arriba quemando el sol by Violetta Parra, we daydream on Panis & Circenses by Caetano Veloso, we tremble with the traditional Duerme Negrito, we close our eyes on Solitude by Purcell. We think back to those past loves, flown away, regretted or not. Because through the songs gathered here, Rosemary Standley and Dom La Nena sing, speak (almost) only of love. Of desperate lovers whose addresses, pleas for grace are lost in the void. It is this void that two inseparables named Rosemary and Dom come to fill like birds announcing spring.