Feeling enlightened and inspired after listening to Pass Through Here, the new Kath Bloom album

Feeling enlightened and inspired after listening to Pass Through Here, the new Kath Bloom album There's something about albums that come after a long career of singing. Artists are very intuitive, and their words become golden advice when they've reached that superior age. The thought is now provokingly anchored in the past. While the young man helplessly mingles his thoughts with future aspirations, the elders are as if looking in a mirror that gives them a retrospective panorama over life. Call that mirror what you may, idealism, knowledge, spiritual latency, death. In music you can also notice this powerful retrospective infusion. Either you have a Billy Joe Shaver album, or George Baker's last album, the one that commemorated his 70th birthday, they all hark back to earlier times, and regard present times with hope. That's all the equation of a wonderful life there.

On Kath Bloom's album, of that I can assure you, you'll find nothing less than wonderful hope. Self-respect overflows this album. The Greek word entelechy comes in mind. She's almost 65 years old, if we're not mistaken (she's successfully hidden her age on all the websites we've checked), and though her voice is slightly strained from her long years of active singing (at least 22 years!), what speaks more in these songs is the heart. You cannot put down the headsets and still be untouched, cold, or in any way indifferent to her warm musical embrace.

Has she 'pacified' us? Yes, she has. Did her songs make us feel 'brand new'? Yes, they have. Did we 'give it some thought'? Did she 'pass through here'(though you can't see, I'm pointing to my heart)? Yes and yes! If the proximity of children sometimes makes us want to be young again, people like Kath Bloom make us want to grow older faster, because there are over a thousand positive sides to old age, and albums like these are one of them!

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