Name: Islay by MACGEE\\\JAZZ
Duration: 4 min 26 s
Description: Original track. Paula MacGee and Paul Yacoubian

Original track. Paula MacGee and Paul Yacoubian

Islay

I’ve been around long enough to really understand what these songs are all about now.   It’s a conversation isn’t it,  between the song and the musicians and sometimes when folk talk they don’t talk about nice things. They don’t say nice things. Like in - Don’t  explain - it’s the starkness of the betrayal that makes the song so powerful and you need to have loved and lost a bit to fully get it. As a writer and a vocalist - Jazz is all about the emotional fusion of melody and lyric for me. Songs are meant to be sung; everything else is extension and interpretation. Words don’t get in the way - they are the way to the music, and sometimes you can lose sight of that in the virtuosity of non vocal   performance. Hey..., but maybe I’m biased... singers eh!’