Raw Emotion
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Undoubtedly it’s her voice that will strike the listener first: like Edith Piaf, whom she admires, Calvi’s voice is as tiny as her physique when she – reticently – speaks,…
Posts by Hanspeter Kuenzler
Music Review 25
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Marianne Faithfull,Horses And High Heels (Naive)The first thing that can be said with certainty about this, Marianne Faithfull’s 23d album, is that it won’t be easily overlooked in the shops…
Music Review 24
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Brian Eno, Small Craft on a Milk Sea (Warp)In the unpredictable course of his career, Brian Eno as a producer guided Talking Heads, David Bowie, U2 and Coldplay out of…
Life Lessons
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Femi Kuti’s father, Fela Kuti, was a one-man action group to rid Africa, and specifically Nigeria, of corruption, hypocrisy and poverty. His weapon was music, a richly layered fusion of…
Music Review 23
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Wai, Ora (Jayrem Records)Maka McGregor was once the drummer of Maori reggae band Aotearoa who were instrumental in bringing a voice to New Zealand’s young Maori population. Such was the…
A Life in Music
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Don’t trust anyone over thirty, the Californian activist Jack Weinberger postulated in 1964. For forty years, the music business bought into this dubious credo. But things have begun to change…
Music Review 22
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Cosa Brava, Ragged Atlas (Intakt Records)Guiitarist Fred Frith first honed his instrumental skills with the archetypically 1970s English group Henry Cow, an ensemble with strong political views, an arch sense…
Soul Bird
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Some Place Simple is an unusual album. It contains only a handful of new songs; the rest are new versions of songs from her previous albums Quixotic (2003) and The…
Music Review 21
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Villagers, Becoming a Jackal (Domino)Twenty years after the innovative peak of the 1980s, the decade that saw bands ranging from U2 to Stump, from Microdisney to That Petrol Emotion, the…
