Singer songwriter Olivia Chaney makes a welcome return to Kings Place, exploring her ever-evolving relationship with the Earth, and how so many of her own works, and works which have inspired her, are deeply connected to it.
Olivia Chaney is the author of an unmistakable brand of sensuous music that explores the interplay between tradition and modernity, inherited trauma, and her deep love of nature. In addition to three acclaimed solo albums, Olivia has recorded Grammy-nominated collaborations with The Decemberists and Kronos Quartet. Ever-present in Olivia’s music is the quest for how to live peacefully alongside the Earth.
Source: Olivia Chaney: Modern Myths & Pastorales • Contemporary • Kings Place
What a soulful voice she has – and that video!!! Falling in love with a song, a voice – this is it!
Here the lyrics which, of course, I didn‘t fully understand because I was so in thrall of the pictures and the melody
In this house
On a hill
Where I’ve come to see
What is real
All I find is illusions
Urgently, she sees Spring grow
Build to a stream
On it flows
Till Autumn falls, golden
Leaves her silent, scolded
Men nearby drain fields
Hopeful for all they yield
Not wondering why the days end
With the sun in the West
At night I hang
From the ledge
By moon, Pleiades
In all shining mystery
In the house
On a hill
Where I’ve come
To need less
And many more will
Lovely. Thank you!