The keen reader might remember VOGEL, Dutch troubairitz championing a committed wanderlust spirit and a deep love for busking on the streets. We featured ‘La Pleine Lune’ back in November, celebrating the piece as “a complex dive into what makes us human, starting with mindfulness and ending with stoicism”. We were able to appreciate VOGEL’s observant and reflective songwriting, the natural conclusion of a life spent touring Europe and the world, playing music for anyone interested in listening.
Thinking about it, busking is bound to give the performer a great perspective on the world around them; a chance to admire everyone’s hustlin’ and bustlin’ along the streets, unsuspectingly going by their day. There’s also the possibility of interesting encounters, something that VOGEL writes about in her latest offering, ‘La fille Irlandaise’. Expanding on the project’s acoustic-folk premise, the piece embodies a highly hypnotic and dream-like ethos, with bucolic textures and tender acoustic guitars helping VOGEL uncover a particular memory: a fleeting shared moment with a young Irish girl on the streets of Paris.
Aside from Anette Vogel, the project benefits from the creative help of bassman Mario Kaspers, following VOGEL around the world since 2015. Overall, ‘La fille Irlandaise’ carries an intriguing aura of mystery and melancholia, initiating a sort of aural trance that makes for a timeless, ethereal listening experience.
Recommended! Discover ‘La fille Irlandaise’ now: