Concert Review: El Mar Is A Gypsy At Rockwood
With her big hair flowing and an ethereal nature, El Mar felt like a gypsy. Yet, do not be fooled. Gypsies are more than the stereotypes of seduction or magical flightiness. They go beyond their minds and flashing aesthetics to seek the open road, and discover how humanity moves locationally to find itself spiritually. El Mar did the same at Rockwood.
From Don’t Say” to “Sin Sin,” El Mar approaches her songs like cobblestones on a road. I said it with Suzanne Santo and Ashe, but I truly enjoy hearing women sing about more than just falling in love with a guy. Now more than ever, ladies are singing to the difficulty of falling in love with yourself. This does not take away that tracks like, “The Best One,” were based on every person’s natural search for a partner in this life. Yet, El Mar, lyrically, seeks partners to join her as she seeks herself, which amped her gypsy vibe.
It might have been the “hairography” or how her hands clutched the mic as if they were holding the softest cloth, but El Mar had an observant command. Even when El Mar did a cover, there was still this feeling of an introspective nature; as if even the works of Cyndi Lauper could be made original to her. Add on that her vocals poured over songs like wine hitting glass, and you felt drunk by how she rosed over your clarity. It was as if journeying to be better is not a clear choice but a tinted one.
Imagine it? What if being in love or being better was not about being clearer but, instead, choosing to be rosier? You always hear the saying “rose-colored glasses” when someone is being deluded or blind to reality, but, for El Mar, that is when someone is choosing reality. Thus, her country rock brims with a folkish nature that makes her appear like an eternally moving light: even when she is pretty still on the stage. When you have a voice, like El Mar, that feels comely and casual in its delivery of wisdom and loneliness, you do not need to, literally, move to have an audience be transported. For More Information on El Mar Click Here.
