Anna knows...🔥
Are there any fans of Anna Calvi among us?
On “Aerial” and “50 Words For Snow”: “I like the fact that (Kate) is embracing her age, her family and her life, and that it doesn’t mean that you still can’t be a really amazing artist. That’s what I’d like to imagine myself being like in 20 years’ time. I love how unafraid she is of taking risks. She does some crazy things on her records, especially with her voice. It sounds like there is a complete surrender to her art, and I find that really inspiring.”
(The Guardian, 20 April 2012) “There’s something absurd and yet beautiful in her work. That playfulness and imagination is incredibly inspiring. I love her voice and the way she can manipulate it for different songs; sometimes it feels fragile and thin, like a whisper, and other times it feels incredibly forceful and deep. It feels like she can channel so many different characters and yet they all feel distinctly personal and very much her.”
(Evening Standard, 15 August 2014) “What’s really inspiring is the depth of character, the depth of the imagery, the depth of imagination and sound KB uses, the way she creates these worlds.
She inhabits her songs better than anyone. It’s incredible how she can be at once extremely experimental and also create amazing pop music. The only other person I can think of that can do that is David Bowie. She’s been a huge inspiration to me. You can write a song, strum a guitar, make a melody, but when I listen to her records, it reminds me how much further you can go if you have the imagination, the drive, the vision.
There’s one piece I love, ‘The Morning Fog’.
I always thought that the character was dying, drowning, with the lyrics: “I’ll tell my father/I’ll tell my loved one/I’ll tell my brothers/How much I love them”. It nearly always drove me to tears, but I found out the song was about being rescued and feeling appreciative be to alive. I’m happy because now I can listen to it and not feel really sad. If someone else did it would be really cheesy but when KB does it, it’s just really beautiful."
(from iNews, 6 Dec 2018)
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