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The question is always who you would have a last conversation with if you could bring back just person to sit with you a while, and whilst that may, will be enlightening, soothing to the soul, it should be noted that perhaps a finer and more fitting discussion would be one with one of the universe’s entities.
We could chat with entropy, open an exchange with fear, banter with pride, procrastinate a while with death, or even regale in Time as we have A Conversation With Fate; but instead we acknowledge that it is a Tête-à-tête that amounts to being one that resembles a soliloquy, our reasoning dictated by the spark of the unreal encounter, the impossibility of exchanging details of the past and the future with any certainty with the incorporeal and disembodied spirits that decide our fate.
Vincent Burke shows that such pleasantries and arguments are more than capable, they are required, they are beliefs in the realms outside of our vision, and they are paramount to gaining an understanding to the wider universe. in A Conversation With Fate, the latest album from the articulate and thoughtful musician, Vincent Burke brings a sense of beguilement and freedom to accept that our interchanges are more than just ones to hang hopes upon, but can inspire a new way of thinking.
Conversations may be silent, they may take place in the recesses and unknown folds of synaptic misfires and connections that the mind playfully melds together, but they are still ways in which we communicate our needs, our fears, loves, and concerns; and as movements such as All Good Things Will Come To Me, Salad Days, What I’ve Been Trying To Tell You, The Truth About A Woman And A Man, and the album’s sincere title track, A Conversation With Fate, all combine with chapters of their own and detailed sentences which argues with reason the need for constant conversation.
A Conversation With Fate,the future may be unknown, but we can influence it by listening to what the world is telling us, those small whispered words that come from nature, the breathed expressions that suggest we take notice of our brain and our gut and dispel the greed of temptation, for the consequence of ignoring the words exchanged will be our undoing.
A class display of intuition, of feeling and emotions, Vincent Burke softly introduces himself with strength of purpose, and the result is an album of beauty, of fortune. Ian D. Hall