There is a timeless quality to the five full songs that comprise this debut EP for the New York based Sara Banleigh. The stunning vocals amplify the feeling with each quivering note. English, Scottish and Irish folk songs, each hundreds of years old, are arranged impeccably, with sparse piano orchestration. The songs came to the United States with English and Irish settlers, and have survived through oral tradition, powerful and elemental themes passed down through the generations: love, despair, beauty, longing, death and betrayal. Recorded in Park West studio specifically for the superb 20-year-old Kawai grand piano, the attention to detail is commendable.
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