Mark Mulholland and Craig Ward
Album: Waiting For The Storm
Label: Canary Row
Tracks: 10
Website: http://www.markmulholland.net/

Walt Whitman once wrote 'There was never any more inception than there is now'. Waiting for the storm is a collaboration of two artists, each bringing together their deepest values and purist confessions.

Mark Mulholland and Craig Ward have known each other since adolescent and since beginning personal careers in the music industry, have crosses paths at various points within the past few decades. Personally, this in itself is poetic and the basis for a long lasting friendship and potential partnership.

There is something beautiful about hearing a musician fret slide across the neck of a guitar. Second to appear on the delightful album; 'All the doors are open', offers beauty at its purist with peaceful riffs and the sense of complete contentment.

The introduction of 'Secret Places' has nothing more than a soothing and beautiful guitar instrumental piece while lyricism is taken back to basics with rhyming couplets, Mulholland takes lead with his rough and vigorous vocals.

Mulholland and Ward have put everything they have into this beautiful compilation, proving that albums like this should be given the recognition they deserve; it is very common for artists like this to slip between the cracks.

This fine album was mastered in city of Berlin, perfectly crafted, though still has the air of a old recording, as though recorded on a reel to reel, few songs have such depth that background influences are placed accordingly, whether a mistake or not; it makes the album astounding.

Louise Draper