Amelia Baker, aka Cinder Well (our current Artist of the Month), has shared a live video for Overgrown. The session was captured at last year’s Quiet Lights Festival in Cork, Ireland, a festival I’d love to see brought to the UK one year, just for the wealth and breadth of new talent they feature. With cinematography by the excellent Myles O’Reilly, the session is interspersed with some lovely everyday moment’s that he always seems to transform into something more serene. It’s the perfect setting for this song…and there’s also a brief appearance from Jim Ghedi.
The track features on her new album Cadence which we reviewed here, and spoke to Amelia about in a recent interview. In his review of the album, Thomas Blake said of Overgrown:
Moments of shimmering prettiness are frequently fathomable within the record’s overriding depth: the acoustic guitar on Overgrown is like the glint of light on water, while Baker’s singing on the chorus is positively peppy, repeating the single word of the song’s title as if entreating the forest to continue its growth unabated. It is one of many examples of her deep affinity with the land. There are two threads at work here, in line with the album’s unspoken motif of doubling: one of ecological change and one of personal change. What Baker does brilliantly is tie those two threads together, letting us know that we are inextricably linked to the landscapes we inhabit.
‘Cadence” is out April 21 on Free Dirt Records – https://lnk.to/cadence
CINDER WELL TOUR DATES
EU
MAY 13 – Uppsala, SE – Uppsala Konsert & Kongress
IE
MAY 18 – Kilkenny, IE – Cleere’s
MAY 19 – Dublin, IE – The Cobblestone
MAY 20 – Dublin, IE – The Cobblestone
MAY 26 – Cork, IE – Coughlan’s
MAY 27 – Waterford, IE – Phil Grimes
UK
SEPT 2 – End of the Road Festival
Website: https://cinderwellmusic.com
BANDCAMP: https://cinderwell.bandcamp.com/album/cadence