{"id":40900,"date":"2008-05-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-geography-of-light\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T00:00:00","slug":"the-geography-of-light","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-geography-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"The Geography Of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some months ago we did a retrospective on female musicians, and I, in my confidence and wisdom, told Jason to run my archive review of Carrie Newcomer\u2019s A Gathering Of Spirits<\/i>. I am a big fan of the Bloomington<\/st1:city>, IN<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> artist, and I figured it was a great time to remind y\u2019all of a smashing album. Imagine my surprise when he informed me I had never actually reviewed the CD.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I can\u2019t rectify that right now; my copy of Gathering<\/i> is packed somewhere in preparation for a household move at the end of this month. I can, however, present to you something as good. Carrie Newcomer has come out with a new disc, The Geography Of Light<\/i>, and I\u2019m happy to announce that it, too, is delightful.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

For those of you who haven\u2019t had the privilege of encountering Newcomer\u2019s music before, she has a rich, sweet, and smoky voice, a gentle and expressive contralto that\u2019s somewhat reminiscent of Mary Chapin Carpenter. But where Carpenter is alternately jocular and passionate, Newcomer\u2019s singing is more gentle, thoughtful, and mystical. \u00a0A lifelong and active member of the Society of Friends or Quakers, she is deeply committed to progressive politics and spirituality, and her music shows a strong thread of spiritual seeking and constructive thought.\u00a0 The Geography Of Light<\/i> is about one woman\u2019s spiritual odyssey and her thoughts on both the present and our past, and it is a forward-thinking and well-crafted piece of work, full of songs that are almost literary in their complexity and skilled execution.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

While all the songs on this release are worthwhile, I have to make a special note of a few: \u201cA Map Of Shadows\u201d is an incredibly magnificent word picture of the gray light before dawn; \u201cGeodes\u201d takes a simple geological fact and turns it into a complex metaphor of indwelling divinity; \u201cWhere You Been\u201d is just a whole lot of fun, and \u201cLazarus\u201d takes the Gospel story of resurrection and literally turns it around \u2013 \u00a0what would it be like to have seen Heaven and then be called back?<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The Geography Of Light<\/i> is complex, mature, thought-provoking, emotionally moving, and grand in its scope and execution. This is music for the adult, the aware, and the open-minded, and I can give it no higher praise. Check it out today; far from being a newcomer, Carrie Newcomer is one of the most gifted artists performing today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":29340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8200],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-40900","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-carrie-newcomer","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40900"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}