Bring Me The Workhorse

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Bring Me The Workhorse courageously gathers all the essential elements of classical and pop to create an album that breaks down the barriers of both world. These songs are simultaneously gentle and urgent, evoking moments of tremendous joy and sorrow with the magnitude of Italian opera and the modesty of a Japanese haiku. Under Shara’s gaze, ordinary objects begin to have supernatural meaning. A robin’s nest, a grocery list, a glass bottle come to represent love, mortality, and the overwhelming need to “freak out” every once in a while. Shara is not afraid to use superlative. But she also considers the benefits of self-control. This is most evident in the carefulness of her arrangement. Earthy drums and bass guitar are augmented by Celeste, music boxe, prepared piano, and a string quartet; each song is scrupulously composed and arranged by Shara herself. Shara’s songwriting reconciles the high art of opera with the low-brow of the folk song by compounding them into a form that is both as sublime as it is pragmatic. The music is set in transcendent landscapes familiar to Wagner’s opera, but it is also planted firmly in the materials of everyday life: dirt, tree branche, bird feathers and thrown away charm. Strings and chimes beckon mysterious apparition, but Shara’s tone of voice is dead seriou. .

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