• Dana Sipos – Roll Up the Night Sky

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    James G. Carlson Posted On June 13, 2015
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    Canadian folk artist Dana Sipos has released a new twelve-song album, Roll Up the Night Sky, on Muddy Roots Recordings. Sipos is a consummate singer/songwriter whose wholly distinct sound is as purely organic as the wild flowers of spring in rural America, as warm as a small fire burning somewhere on the windswept snowy landscape of the far north, as impossibly beautiful as strings of white lights wound around the branches of naked trees under the night skies of early autumn, as haunting and gentle as a ghost and yet as powerful as the bluish gray waves pounding against a rocky shore on a stormy day.
     

    Throughout Roll Up the Night Sky, the compositions are carefully arranged so they don’t drown out Dana’s vocals; instead the extensive instrumentation serves to accentuate the poetry and conveyances of her lyrics as well as the quality and expressiveness of her stunning voice. Quite simply, Dana Sipos’ songs on Roll Up the Night Sky don’t just touch upon the surface and fade away; they work their way into the fertile soil of one’s heart and soul like the mighty roots of an ancient tree. 

    While the entire album is tremendously worthwhile, the tracks that stand out the most to me are “Old Sins,” “Morningside,” “Road to Michigan,” “Night Sky,” “Holy People,” and “Full Moon Sinners.”

    Check the attached video of Dana performing her song “Portraits” live at the Banff Centre.

     




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