This is Pete Kosanovich's first live album recorded at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney in July this year it is a stripped back solo set.
The live set opens with They Are For Real strummed on an acoustic guitar with some Dylanesque harmonica playing, while Pete sings about the things that make your love real, the things that you can never open yourself up too, the pain of where the love went, no matter how special you are, you can never read other people's minds.
Where Am I well the simple answer is in the wild wild east, strumming your guitar trying to find answers.
Blessings In Disguise feels a bit like a Jazz Butcher solo song, the pains of another break up are discussed, he feels he's better off without you, your love was never more than ephemeral, the cadences of the tune lean heavily on olde folk strummings.
Shadows Of The Night has a stripped back feel with all the pains of the end of a relationship laid bare, with cool rationality of a romantic always looking for love in the wrong places, he is always lurking in the Shadows Of The Night.
Children Of War is as bitter as it ought to be, Pete sings about the poor children caught up in war zones, through no fault of their own, He also wants those who run away from arguments, complaining about how hard life has treated them, to think of all the poor children caught in war zones.
About A Place To Know has Pete's voice seeming to quaver somewhat, he searches for that place that fools can be sent in perpetuity, to leave him among the sane people wanting to make things brighter.
The set ends with Love Is Rare that makes clear how hard it is to find true love, that will last through all of life's ups and downs, finding that special person is never going to be easy, the tune veers towards Dylan's Masters Of War but without the bitterness that implies, Pete keeps searching for that rare love.
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