Nine pin

"Nine Pin is an immediate and powerful album which showcases Kaia Kater's skills as a musician, writer and performer whose creative vision stands at the intersections of traditional and contemporary folk and roots music, reclaiming and celebrating the role of Black people of African-Canadian, African-Caribbean and African-American descent in a form of music too often appropriated by white people. But although grounded in traditional Appalachian folk music, what makes Nine Pin stand out from the crowd is Kaia's openness to contemporary music from a range of genres. The result is a stunning album of understated clarity and insight, effortlessly bridging the past and the present to create a blueprint for the future".

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""Nine Pin" is a more assured, jazz-inflected record than its predecessor, though there's still plenty of traditional Appalachian material here ... It's Kaia Kater's own songs that impress the most - the subtle interplay of electric guitar and trumpet on "Sain Elizabeth", the stately, hypnotic piano and pizzicao ciolin of "Viper's Nest", and the echoing dance steps that provide the sole accompaniment to "Harlem's Little Blackbird" ... Kater doesn't write proselytising protest songs, but she isn't afraid to plainly articulate uncomfortable truths - "Your cross is a symbol of my lynching" - "In this town I am meat for the taking" ... She's grown, not just as a songwriter, but as a singer too, and her voice has acquired an irresistible richness. It's possible that a little more time spent in the studio might have resulted in something even more impressive, but Kater's boldness confirms her continuaing emergence as an artist of real stature".