With one foot rooted in the folk music tradition of story-telling, the poetry of spoken-word, and the other planted in a childhood love of South African music, psychedelic folk pop and a smattering of jazz, Mark Berube has a broad and eclectic base from which to build his albums, all bound together by his warmly potent voice. And this is exactly what we get with his latest album titled “Russian Dolls”.
Kristina Koropecki, Berube’s shadowy co-conspirator, adds layers of cello, autoharp, saw and a classical music vocabulary to the mix, resulting in rich, lush and adventurous sonic landscapes.
Mark Berube is one of Canada’s most captivating and unfaltering talents, having devoted himself with the spirit of a craftsman to the art of song over the course of the last decade. There’s no doubt that with “Russian Dolls”, Berube will once again leave his mark.