Two songs about snails and two about leeches: on her new album, the Irish-Norwegian-Berlin musician Tara Nome Doyle wrongly celebrates insects, spiders or crows denigrated as “vermin” (VÆRMIN). In doing so, she joins the relatively young tradition of ecologically conscious biodiversity art – see/listen to Dominik Eulberg’s recent books and records, for example – and continues to refine her idiosyncratic, extraordinary songwriting, which she has already collaborated with Kat Frankie, Dienerven and Malakoff gave Kowalski.
Doyle’s compositions are based on piano and her spectacular, intense singing, which varies from gentle breaths to overwhelming head voice. The melodies develop slowly, building up to a veritable tower of song like in “Snail I”, which transforms the initial melancholy into uplifting energy.
Far from being enraptured, Doyle’s chamber music cosmos is permeable and concrete at the same time. Instruments such as cello, violin, drums and synthesizer constantly add new timbres, illustrating the animals being sung about. “Moth”, for example, is a dark, dramatic chanson in which Doyle’s voice vibrates in the deepest depths, while the more lightly arranged “Worms” seems to strive cautiously towards the light. Weird and beautiful.
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