The Zawose Queens announce tour and share ‘Mapendo’ from forthcoming album Maisha
Pendo & Leah Zawose will perform at festivals including Glastonbury Festival and WOMAD.
Mon, 13 May 24
The Breath, currently on tour in support of their brand new album, Let The Cards Fall, performed at Bristol's Trinity Centre last night, in what was a captivating show.
Frontwoman Ríoghnach Connolly and guitarist/producer Stuart McCallum commenced the show with the moody ‘Ditty’, a short acoustic guitar and vocal motif which gently opens their latest album, as the rest of the band were poised to lead into the rousing ‘All That You Have Been’, beginning the show in earnest.
Audiences responded eagerly as the band worked their way through a mix of new and older material, with the recent addition of Sam Vicary on bass working in great partnership with the unique drumming style of Luke Flowers to enhance the groove on songs such as ‘Antwerp’ and ‘What You Owe’.
As ever, Ríoghnach established a strong rapport with the audience between songs, tempering the more serious chat about themes of slavery, the lost art of ‘keening’ for the dead, and ‘parental perpetuation’ with her trademark humorous outbursts, even heckling at the security guard as he passed along the front of the stage.
One of the night’s most emotionally charged moments came in the powerful vocal delivery of ‘Let It Calm You Down’, a ballad from the new album dedicated to her partner Ellis (‘the Welsh Adonis’), Stuart McCallum and John Ellis underpinning the touching lyrics with a gentle acoustic guitar and piano backing.
Towards the end of the set, ‘Will You Wait’ and ‘Hide Out’ brought a more reflective tone before the band finished out the night with live favourites ‘This Dance Is Over’ and ‘Tremelone’.
Ditty
All That You Have Been
Carry Your Kin
Let The Cards Fall
Antwerp
Let It Calm You Down
Trip The Switch
Chilli Salt
Boat Song
Hide Out
Will You Wait
What You Owe
This Dance Is Over
Encore:
Tremelone
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You can catch the band as they continue their tour throughout November in Brighton, Nottingham, Manchester and Sheffield— full details available are available here.
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Released 13 September 2018
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