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Fans van ‘Eleanor Rigby’ van The Beatles zullen plezier beleven aan Arrow, het tweede album van Clare & The Reasons. Clare is Clare Muldaur, de dochter van gitarist Geoff Muldaur. Ze werkt samen met Olivier Manchon, haar echtgenoot, en een stel muzikanten.

Arrow staat vol lieve liedjes die hun muzikale identiteit opbouwen uit het gebruik van barokke arrangementen en klassieke instrumenten. De melodieën geuren soms naar The Beatles, maar de muziek bewaart zo’n kleine toets, met de kinderlijke stem van Muldaur als bonus, dat de band toch herkenbaar is.

De meeste songs zijn van Clare zelf, maar een cover van ‘That’s all’ (van Genesis) plaatst de luisteraar voor een keuze: het is echt niet het nummer dat we nu opnieuw wilden horen, maar dit arrangement is gemaakt met zoveel liefde voor kamerpop – in deze dagen geen hippe keuze – dat je Clare en co moet bewonderen om zoveel geloof in de eigen visie.

Een klein, lief plaatje.

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“We’re a bunch of idiots! We definitely mix that into what we do because that’s who we are,” confesses Clare and the Reasons’ frontwoman Clare Muldaur. “We take the music we do very very, very seriously, but we don’t take ourselves that seriously.” It’s that sense of professional whimsy that leads Clare and the Reasons to some interesting places—including shows in bright red jumpsuits, haiku recording diaries, and absurdist takes on 1980s classics.

Making music that floats like a summer breeze and evokes a bittersweet nostalgia; Clare and the Reasons’ musical roots were sewn early in Muldaur’s childhood. “My first musical, head-over-heels falling in love was with Bessie Smith when I was like, eight. I grew up listening to almost exclusively black music from the ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s,” she explains.

A storyteller at heart, Muldaur’s literary lyricism is likewise rooted in art from before her time. Muldaur waxes poetic when discussing film. “Truffaut’s Stolen Kisses, for sure…400 Blows…I love a lot of French cinema actually.” On her home soil, Muldaur also has a clear favorite—the musical. “My favorite musical would probably be Singing in the Rain, when music used to be good music,” she says. “It’s kind of gone off the deep end for me now…I don’t know why they can’t just do good musicals, why it has to be bad. It’s almost like a rule of thumb now…or just really cheesy.”

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