I have heard Jehanne and her husband Rob sing Emblem, the title track on this CD, lots of times, and it has never failed to move me to tears. A call to 'wear your heart like a beacon, that you raise to rouse the sleepers, the dreamers in the labyrinths of nerve and blood and bone', it is also, for me, the perfect expression of Jehanne?s aim when she performs her lovely poetry and songs. Modern songs, performed in the folk tradition, her music is nevertheless utterly unique, because it really is written to produce a kind of awakening in the hearer. Subtly, just beneath the surface, you feel an undercurrent of something unspeakably magical and beautiful. It is like being in the presence of real troubadours, especially when Jehanne sings in French, which she sometimes does!
14 tracks, total running time 63 minutes, 2006

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