As winter approaches, we should start to consider what music will accompany the gloom. Like central heating, stews, and mulled wine, Toronto musician Luka Kuplowsky’s, Capturing the Evening Song, is an essential comfort to get us through the cold. Released in the guts of winter 2022, Capturing the Evening Song is a meditation collection reminiscent of work by Beverly-Glenn Copeland and Hiroshi Yoshimura. It is a dreamy, synthy contemplation on simple, daily scenes. With songs like, “Let’s Watch TV” and “Too Many Books at the Bedside Table,” Luka lulls us into cozy domestic spaces. Slicing zucchini, salting the fish, he sings, almost whispering, in “Mo Prepares Dinner with Love,” I’ll prepare the rice. Luka sings minutia into poetry with a simplicity not unlike a Basho haiku. And like Basho’s On Love and Barley, Luka locates sublimity in the things we take for granted. All of this is important, he seems to be saying, we just need to see it. As the album unfurls, so too does our journey across the evening, culminating in the album’s final refrain: Let me dream.
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