Taste Test: Keren Botaro soars into the sky as a ‘Free Bird’
The soul singer laments her new-found desolation with a song from her new EP.
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She’s an untethered bird in flight, cascading across the baby blue surface of a low-hanging skylight. Tel Aviv’s Keren Botaro wears her heart proudly thumping on her sleeve, a haunting, glassy trumpet wailing just behind her. “Free Bird,” a fragile, reflective ode of lost happiness and misery akin to Billie Holiday and Etta James, sees the torch singer crumble to her knees and cast a blood-curdling prayer to the heavens. “Did you take my wings and run?” she hurls her pain right at the listener. Clocking in at six minutes, the classically-structured and produce number smolders and rips the lid off the entire congregation. “Unchain me now / Take me back to what I used to know,” she laments, her silky vocal cords creeping up into her dizzying head voice. Botaro’s vocal prowess is as a lioness in the heat of the prowl, attacking its prey and tearing it to bit-sized shreds, and she’s not sorry about that.
“Free Bird” is a supple taste of her latest EP, Again, out now.
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