I was told “you can’t get there from here”. How is that, I
wondered, when I definitely got here from there?"
Albums featuring unreleased music from years past can be a bit
like that. The musicians will never be able to play as they did.
Hours of practice, technique development and personal growth
have guaranteed that. But all those days have brought them to
now.
For singer Colin Craviero, Man Made Lake was a ten-year
personal passion project that he now knows was, at the time,
a vehicle for him to heal. “I look back with nostalgia and fond
memories. This album documents a very long and passionate
journey that I’m very proud of.”
As he should be.
His vocal delivery is effortless, reminiscent of Richard Hawley,
Orville Peck, Joe Henry, and the intimacy of Leonard Cohen.
The songs speak of personal travels and honest struggles. This
is a collection of musical postcards that spark memories and
relate stories.
“Lucky”, for example, is an intimate consideration of a love that
once was - “march along to your favourite song / tear my heart
in two / we were the lucky ones / isn’t that true”. This heart did
break. There are now memories. A Netflix soundtrack inclusion
if ever there was one.
Colin has described the development of the songs as “beautiful
days sitting at the computer using audacity with a $30 microphone
resting on a pillow tracking my $100 guitar”.
The resulting ‘pieces of hearts taped to poems of the occult’ will
“get you there from here”. And while it reflects a different time in
Colin’s life, this musical memoir places a mirror before us,
allowing us a glimpse of a journey to come.
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