“THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD WHO DON’T THINK LIKE YOU DO”


A former children’s rights worker, Karine allows images, narratives, questions and wry comic asides to do much of her work. She tries never to say too much. And whether it’s the dilemmas of modern parenthood, the unsettling kindness of lies, or the resilience of hope...


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She admits most of her songs are an attempt to make sense of the fact that “there are people in this world who don’t think like you do” (as she herself sings in 2006 song “Daisy”). All of which is precisely the kind of sideways, allegorical approach to contemporary living that you might expect from someone with a Masters degree in philosophy.


Over the past few years, Karine has notched up a string of eclectic musi- cal collaborations with alt folk balla- deer King Creosote, Indo-Caledonian pop maestro Future Pilot AKA, the intellectual maverick of English folk song Chris Wood, Idlewild front man Roddy Woomble, bluegrass ace Tim O’Brien and even the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. She’s not quite as easy to pigeonhole as you might imagine.


Following the breakthrough of her debut album “Faultlines”, which won Best Album at the 2005 BBC Folk Awards, and its more lush and po- lished 2006 successor ”Scribbled in Chalk”, Karine took time out to give birth to her son in 2007. In an extraor- dinarily creative and productive ma- ternity leave, she recorded not one but two albums for release on her


own micro label, hegri music. The first of these, “Fairest Floo’er”, is a stark, dark and intimate collection of Scottish traditional songs, which Karine herself describes as “late night dram music”. This return to her origins as a respected Scots traditi- onal singer had a profound influence upon her current bittersweet collec- tion of original songs “This Earthly Spell”. Indeed all four of her solo CD releases prove she’s a writer able to combine ancient traditions with sharp contemporary observations and an independent sensibility.


Meantime, the restlessly creative Polwart still finds time to collabo- rate with friends Annie Grace (vo- cals, whistle) and Corrina Hewat (vocals,harp) in an innovative and cheeky female vocal harmony pro- ject combining traditional and origi- nal songs. She’s also one eighth of new Scots-Canadian band collec- tive The Burns Unit, which features erstwhile collaborators King Creo- sote and Future Pilot AKA, as well as dub artist and rapper MC Soom T and ex-Delgados front woman Emma Pollock.


www.karinepolwart.com www.myspace.com/karinepolwart


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