Last month, we shared Yoshika Colwell‘s intuitive and mystical single Last Night. She follows up with a contrasting new single, Fighting On The Wing, a song edged with a pastoral lightness that focuses on beginnings and endings throughout life, perfectly timed when the wheel turns with the start of Spring. An intuitive video from Tilly Wace once again accompanies the single.
Colwell shared: “Fighting On The Wing is a beginning song, exploring the first steps of a new avenue and finally ending chronic cycles of hurt. It’s largely centered around the experience of sitting in my new garden in London, observing, listening, processing and coming into the present after a long time. It’s a spring song, metaphorically and literally. Elderflower and birds and explosions of green. A tentative unfurling into peace in the face of relentless human desire to over-analyse. The song echoes the sentiment of the poem “The Peace of Wild Things, by Wendell Berry” (below).
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
“When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
YOSHIKA COLWELL PLAYS:
MARCH
Tuesday 11th – British Music Embassy @ Palm Door, AUSTIN TX (SXSW)
Friday 21st – The Castle Hotel, MANCHESTER (English Folk Expo)
APRIL
Tuesday 8th – The Moth Club, LONDON
MAY
Friday 16th – Unitarian Church, BRIGHTON (The Great Escape)
AUGUST
30th – Moseley Folk Festival, BIRMINGHAM
28th -31st – Larmer Tree Gardens, DORSET (End of the Road Festival)