Winnipeg-based traveller, visual artist and yoga instructor Demetra (full name: Demetra Penner) explores Northern landscapes and the hardships of love on her debut full-length.It’s a spacious, slow album propelled by piano and guitars, with hints of folk, classical and pop influences and decorated with banjo, mandolin, autoharp, ukulele and strings. Good thing there’s space, because Penner’s soaring soprano – the kind that can be mistaken for “intimate” and “diminutive” before she shows her power – is clearly the star.
The swaying, oceanic lullabies are a lovely falling-asleep soundtrack (she even references waking from dreams in the intro of Hunt & Gather), but I prefer her livelier side, revealed on Hey Stranger and Maiden Of Ice. Also cool is Nikki Komaksiutiksak’s throat-singing on Arctic Sea.
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