Love that spans continents requires strength that most people will never even put to the test and Berkshire singer-songwriter TaniA Kyllikki has concentrated that strength into something incredibly heartfelt with I Promise I’ll Wait For You. Having come out after having fought big health battles, she has given way more than a pay back - it is a personal statement on the type of commitment that mocks at geography.
Bright piano notes are pouring into it as the first sunlight upon water, and as such the feeling of being caught in between Earthly reality and the realm of dreams is immediately evoked. TaniA possesses a startling five-octave range, but does not use it as a spectacle, as a showwoman, but as a surgeon, as a control over feeling, as a manifestation of emotion. Her voice gets around furious confidence and murmur of gentleness and draws the audience into a tale about a confession between friends.
TaniA has created a compromise between the radio-based polish and the raw and soulful sincerity in collaboration with her husband and producer Rynellton. The manufacturing shines through the slight tints and soft rhythmic strokes and leaves the heart of the song open and pumping. Supporting harmonies hold her main performance like tight fists, and enhance without drying up the deep intimacy.
The best strength of this song is its brash reality. It is not fantasy masquerading as romance, but the real life of TaniA made an artistic form, got made of sound. What transpires will resonate with those who have upheld love despite distance in whatever form whether it be deployment, work obligations, or circumstance. The narrative instinct of TaniA has directed each moment, and created images of unswerving hope and silent heroism that remain a long time even after the silence has come back.
