Vinyl Record
Meskerem Mees - Caesar
Meskerem Mees - Caesar on LP vinyl. A 2022 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2022
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2022 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Caesar is the 2022 Meskerem Mees release that narrows the frame after Julius and makes that narrowing feel like discovery rather than reduction. Across eight songs, Mees keeps close to the qualities that made her early work travel beyond Belgium: clear melodic writing, unforced diction, folk-rooted guitar shapes and a voice that can sound both youthful and old-souled. The City, Best Friend, Doesn't Matter and Try You Might carry the first half with lightly held narrative detail, while Away The Sparrow Flies, Charlemagne, Cod Liver Oil And Orange Juice and Great Dandelion give the second half a more wandering, storybook quality. The title may suggest empire, but the music resists grandstanding. It is small-scale in the best sense: attentive, handmade and alert to how a song can turn on a single image. Coming one year after Julius, Caesar feels like a companion chapter from an artist testing how much can be said with very little pressure.
The release matters because it shows Mees extending her early promise without inflating it. After winning attention through Belgian competitions and the international visibility around Julius, Caesar keeps the focus on writing and presence. It confirms that her strength is not volume, but precision.
A strong collector choice for listeners who want the more compact Meskerem Mees statement alongside Julius. It works as a shorter, more distilled counterweight to the debut album, especially for folk collections that value contemporary European songwriting over production spectacle.
Intimate contemporary folk with nimble acoustic guitar, plainspoken vocals, gentle cello-adjacent warmth and songs that favor image, melody and restraint.
Recommended for: Modern folk and singer-songwriter collectors; Listeners who discovered Meskerem Mees through Julius; Fans of spare acoustic records with literary detail.
Is Caesar an album-length Meskerem Mees release? Caesar is a compact eight-song release, shorter than Julius but substantial enough to feel like a focused companion statement. Which songs are on Caesar? The track list includes The City, Best Friend, Doesn't Matter, Try You Might, Away The Sparrow Flies, Charlemagne, Cod Liver Oil And Orange Juice and Great Dandelion. How does Caesar relate to Julius? It follows Julius by one year and keeps the same emphasis on voice, acoustic detail and lyrical directness, but in a tighter and more concentrated form.