Mishaped Pearls - Simon Simon from Pete Roach on Vimeo.
Directed by Pete Roach.
We here at TOW towers have long been fans of Mishaped Pearls. Ged Flood and Manuella Schuette are the musical couple at it's core flanked by, frankly, a mind blowing line up of carefully chosen folk musicians.
It's the considered blend of folk, classical and pop with Manu's beautiful classically trained vocals that reels you in and won't let you go. We'd like to see this band on a BIG stage at the festival's this summer - some homegrown talent for WOMAD maybe? Latitude? Come on...
Manu gets her inspiration for lyrics from poetry, folk lore and a 'hidden gem of a novel' in the case of this new track Simon Simon:
"The song takes its lyrics from a hidden gem of a novel, written by a German woman about 4 generations ago, Annette von Droste Huelshoff. A most mysterious story which is based on the records of a court case she came across, and giving an amazing insight into the influences of parents & upbringing on the development of the human psyche 100 yrs before Freud... Woven into this there are two murders that occur, but despite a multiplicity of clues the ending of the novel still leaves us guessing and experiencing strange cool shivers at the same time..."
You can hear Manuella talking more about Mishaped Pearls in The Other Woman podcast here.
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