Taste Test: Windy Isle honors all the ‘Lonely People’
The folk storyteller enlists fellow musicians on a new ballad.
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This world is wrought of loneliness. If we’re so blessed to have a support system, we may be better equipped to rise out of the darkness that seeks to destroy our bodies. The fire is all-consuming, but every fire dies eventually. Swedish folk singer-songwriter Windy Isle (real name Niclas Edhenholm) trudged through the mud for quite sometime, nearly turning on his back on the slowly-peeking silver that edged over the horizon, and so, he emerges with a song called “Lonely People.” Originally only one verse, he sought out his close net of friends and fellow musicians to finish it up. That’s how Paulina Palmgren (La Lusid), Tomas Hellberg (Tellus) and Mira Aasma (Italo Bitches) came into the picture, not only to flesh out the lyrics with their own verses but to sing them. What could have been a solitary performance, and a rather grim one at that, is upended into a dazzling centerpiece about redemption and the necessity for companionship in this life. “Lonely people are shallow,” Edhenholm ignites the start of a crackling ballad. In his honesty, he comes closer to fully understanding his very existence, as well as cementing his position as one of the most compelling folk artists of our time.
“Lonely People” is the third single to Windy Isle’s new album, White Apartment, scheduled for later this summer.
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