Tunes of a jaunty, and proudly European, defiance run through Will Pound’s latest album – and a good thing too. Pound is a British harmonica and melodeon musician, one laden with accolades, and A Day Will Come is this folk musician’s response to the nightmare of Brexit.
Pound prepared for the UK’s departure from the European Union – this officially began on 31 January 2020, with mountains of treaties relating to just about everything still to be sorted out – by going to the 28 states of continental Europe to seek out and establish musical communications. A Day Will Come celebrates meetings that took place through 14 paired tracks – Romania with Bulgaria and Malta with Estonia, for example – and the resulting music is a peerless example of the profound experience that comes from listening to others.
