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Voice and guitar virtuosity from Roberts and Lakeman
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Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman
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OUT and about to promote their must-hear new album Personae, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman win the audience over as much with their candour as the engrossing music they offer up.
Theirs is an intimate set, allowing close-up appreciation of Roberts’s extraordinary vocal range and interpretative skill and Lakeman’s startling guitar mastery.
We're all captivated by the tragic melancholy of 52 Hertz, a song about a Pacific Ocean whale who mysteriously transmitted his calls on a frequency inaudible to other whales — who use a different wavelength — and consequently became the loneliest whale on Earth. Marine biologists believe he was born deaf.
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