Breaking flowers
Strangely, punk movement gave us phrases as beautiful as the motto that found flowers in the dirt. Cecilie Svendsen, however, has drawn her ParsleyMusic creative alter ego to break all vegetative root. We can hear old crooners spirit but they do not drown her music thanks to the ParsleyMusic strong personality on her first work. Each second, Cecilie is lovingly caressing the European cabaret tradition of the Roaring Twenties. ParsleyMusic knows how to assert herself with sense and sensibility.
A second of a second gives us a brothel environment. A second voice makes a personal and perfect counterpoint to her bittersweet brilliance. Shackled is more intimate. Clouds also pass through dark skies and they catalyze surfaced deep songs as this one where Cecilie set personal accounts. Getting to the root, Broken flower is the song selected as her first promotional clip. As if Tom Waits was reborn woman shrouded in smoke as usual but with eyes full of new sensory orgasms, she narrates a passage full of broken flowers. Behind them, Tidal gives us the nakedness of her voice, far away from powerful registers but full of deep honesty. We can hear a tender xylophone, a sensual double bass and a subtle percussion, and all they are almost afraid of betraying the beauty of her voice, on the verge of breakdown.
I sit and count my mistakes for I painted the sky with all the ugliness ... and the whisper of Cecilie Svendsen deeply leaves us her beauty.
Text: Juan Carlos Romero
Photo: Cecilie Svendsen