by Patrick Rapa
[ rock/pop ]
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Where Rainer Maria could summon a maelstrom of brains and brawn, Caithlin De Marrais' solo stuff — 2008's My Magic City and a recent live album of duets with Seb Leon — feels more like the eye of the storm than the edge. It's intimate and heartfelt, sometimes blissfully at peace atop light guitars and cymbal whispers, but also laced with paranoia and worry. Is the narrator in "The Cottage" on a nostalgia trip or mourning a greater loss? Are the lovers in "The Fire" embracing, or holding on for dear life? Some lines just ache with prayerful desperation: "Let me be gentle where there is a gentle need. Let me love this girl. Let me love her carefully."
Sun., Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m., $8, all ages, with Everyone Everywhere, Jet Set Sail and Bearings, Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc.com.


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