MARINA ALLEN ‘Candlepower’

Marina Allen certainly clocks up the miles on Candlepower, her bewitching debut. Covering endless landscapes in dreams, on the highways, and railways, her itinerant lifestyle seems both a necessity and a comfort. Over this brief encounter of twenty minutes there’s evidence aplenty of Allen’s yearn for new pastures as we drop in on relationships and familiar place names. Confidently walking a high wire, and never falling into any one camp, there are echoes of 70s songstresses, folk tradition, and the hippie trail, but there’s a strength of character, and a uniqueness to this Californian’s nomadic odyssey.