My Kappa Roots – The House of St Colme Burnt Down

My Kappa Roots is the moniker of Pablo Clark, who hails from the mighty kingdom of Fife and is a co-founder of the Fife Kills collective.
 I want to try and keep this quite short, because I know I’ll end up talking irrelevent pish and I don’t want to ruin this.

I’m pretty much only at the stage where I can write about stuff I more or less listen to on a regular basis, which is to say things that have been about for a while. This album, it has to be said, is one of my all-time favourites. It really is outstandingly gorgeous. It’s one of those timeless albums that completely transports the listener somewhere only they can go. It’s like those afternoon naps that rid you of a particularly gruesome hangover; afterwards you wake up feeling totally transformed and refreshed.

The structure is gleamingly beautiful; an equilibrium of perfectly balanced ups and downs. Touched softly with additional bits of violin and other classicaly modest instruments, it’s mostly just the careful and soft plucking of guitar under a warm blanket of a voice that is the epitome of calm.

I think it would be rather daft to try and go into detail about the songs individually, as in some cases over-analysis can sometimes tarnish the integrity and the simple endearment of its artistic nature; be it a painting, poem, novel or song.

Please please please go and buy this album now. You won’t regret it… Not one bit.

Man of the Islands – My Kappa Roots mp3

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