A friend and an inspiring singer – Kevin Pearce is a top bloke and a darn fine performer. I saw a link to on Kev’s MySpace page to a review of his latest work, you can see it below. I have included Kevin’s latest track in this post – which I have cleared with him – for your aural pleasure. here
There’s an ethereal quality to Kevin Pearce’s voice which penetrates even the foggiest of minds. Light Song, the singer’s first EP, is a short collection of carefully crafted songs which call on many influences. Pearce lists Tim Buckley, Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen amongst his favourites, and the soft religiosity created by the combination of his raw vocals and melancholy song-writing is sure to win him favour among fans of those artists.
The first track, For Her, characterizes Pearce’s style; his lyrics leave him bare and open, and the vocal, harmonies and simple guitar melodies exhibit his beautifully haunting voice.
The second track, also called Light Song is quietly thoughtful; you feel like you are witness to an intimate conversation between lovers, well-placed harmonies adding gravitas to Pearce’s lyrics.
Older Times and Healthy State of Mind pick up the pace, both short outpourings of regret and wisdom in hindsight.
Final song Vultures demonstrates much clearer English folk influences, with minimal instrumentation, sharp drum beats and hand-clapping. Here, Pearce shows off the many facets of his vocal ability, which seems to be what this EP does best. Pearce is clearly a talented songwriter, but his real skill lies in the versatility of his voice which is truly expressive and unusual in its quality.
Dude – that’s cool man, just heard his stuff on thesixtyone.com today! Small world…
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Small world! Just “discovered” his music this week on thesixtyone.com!
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Test.
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Hmmm interesting, I think it wasn’t letting me comment because I mentioned that I’d discovered Kevin’s music this week over at thesixtyone dot com (but I’d included it as a URL).
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Wow – It doesn’t like links?
http://www.gtvone.com is a GREAT link!
What do you think of “Comment Love” jB?
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Hmmm maybe it was just the way I was trying to instert the link… http://thesixtyone.com/
As for comment luv – it’s a cool little feature!
Hmmm nope, still didn’t like when I tried to put in a link – weird.
Maybe it likes the DPS link better
http://digital-photography-school.com/
Comment luv? It’s a neat little feature!
And yet it doesn’t like the t61 links… http://thesixtyone.com/ – weird.
So apparently it likes some links but not others… trying with a www in front…
http://www.thesixtyone.com/
Hmmm this is very strange, it won’t let me post if I try to insert thesixtyone dot com as a link – obviously the DPS one worked. Bizarre. Feel free to delete my comment test spam
Do you mean http://www.thesixtyone.com – it won’t let you post that in here?
*test*
It took ages to save – that was weird!
Is he the son of the great Eric Pearce?
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Yes, he is also a very late news reader!