Folk World on Skin:

 

Saoirse Mhór "Skin"
Label: Own label; 2006 If you’re a fan of Christy Moore, have bought all his albums, gone to all his live gigs, flash your “I love Christy Moore” bumper sticker, and are looking for fresh meat, then Saoirse Mhór is the name you’ve been looking for. An Irish singer/guitarist based in Germany, Saoirse has participated and played at events like the Würzburg Busker’s Festival and the Waldbrunn / Odenwald Annual Nabu festivities in Waldkatzenbach. His debut album, “Skin” features cameo appearances by his wife Birgit and Thomas Drost, a flute player and street musician based in Belgium. The songs on the album – nine in total – seem to reflect the usual themes of love, loss, self-reflection, emigration, the search for happiness, but there are interesting twists as well. Take the track “Highway Love”, which takes up the contemporary theme of cyber love (“The light upon your skin in the night turns me on/ The light upon my screen screams soon switch me on/ And the messages you send are burning me/ I feel your love through my window”), but also reflects the deeper tragedy of being trapped in oneself. For more information, go to Saoirse’s website, and, if you can, catch him live at a gig near you.
www.saoirsemhor.com
Kathy-Ann Tan