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[mychameleondays]

Anna Calvi: One Breath

incl. 7″

Domino WIGLP284X

Released: October 7, 2013

[rad-review-of-gigs]

Anna Calvi, Islington Assembly Halls, 08.10.2013

Anna Calvi is back and still the troubadour,  in a white blouse and high waisted black trousers, but she’s more spectral this time.  In her delicate moments,  it’s as if she’s a ghost presence gently billowing the curtains with just a whisper.

It’s been a two year wait. Nevertheless she’s in celebratory mood this evening, following the  release of second album One Breath the previous day. The songs are a response to family bereavement and  largely continue the successful formula of the first record Anna Calvi, but with more classical orchestration. The stage band has expanded to include keyboards and Mally Harpaz’s skilful harmonium playing is now also brought to the xylophone.  

The Assembly Halls, emerging from its own re-vamp, is St. Petersburg palacial.  Its excellent acoustics serve Calvi’s dynamics admirably. It could soon cement its  place as one of the capital’s best venues. 

The set opens with  Suzanne and I, a song driven by Daniel Merriwood’s tolling drums, that  gives full expression to Anna’s  operatic power. She moves seamlessly on to latest single, Eliza, another of percussive charge and belting vocal, during which, her mouth seems to loom wide open like a shark. A further track from One Breath, Suddenly, deals in the trademark storm and lull of her writing, its clashing chords midway, reminiscent of The Doors’ The End. 

Next up is Sing To Me which has the glorious, nostalgic sweep of a celluloid Western soundtrack.  Each of these offerings is punctuated by a humble, hushed ‘thank you’, giving credence to the popular conception of Anna Calvi as a being of contrasts.   Piece By Piece, a multi-layered late Siouxie and The Banshees-esque number is the high point of the new repertoire, creating a wonderful sense of space between its separate musical elements. 

Anna Calvi cites Jimi Hendrix as an influence however her performances are too measured and stylised to merit close comparison with the latter’s incendiary chaos. Still, she is more satisfyingly raw live than the somewhat over-contrived production on her recordings.

 I’ll Be Your Man as ever stands out. The Devil swells and dissipates and is the most faithful to her Andalucian visual aesthetics, infused with thematic echoes of composer Manuel de Falla. Blackout and Desire are perennial crowd favourites. Yet however she makes the long neck telecaster slide, reverberate or sing her audience is strangely mute and never seems to lose itself in the velvet texture and jagged violence of her music.

The set culminates in the talismanic Love Won’t Be Leaving, a song that suffers death by arrangement in the studio, but here is stripped of adornment and features Anna’s signature throwing back of the head during the tortured crescendo of its guitar break, her face in a kind of art house mortal-carnal ecstasy.

The brooding ballad Bleed Into me is the band’s first encore. Anna is, unsurprisingly, popular in France and departs with her thundering rendition of Edith Piaf’s Jezebel to warm acclaim. 

She describes her songs as narratives which the shifts in mood and dynamics are meant to reflect. They follow a similar pattern that can make the playlist feel like a one trick pony. However these remain early days and, with such an eclectic sensibility and natural talent, there could be fascinating experiments to come. Anna Calvi, as ever,  is nothing short of mesmerising and the devil, albeit caged, is most definitely in the room.

[mitjalovse]

Domino Recording Company houses the coolest indie musicians. You can tell I'm being cheeky here, but the label does manage to get a lot of incredibly successful players that receive their best reviews at your usual Pitchforks. Yes, you can sense my sarcasm level here, though whoever works there as a scout needs a raise. I mean, Anna Calvi can also be found on Domino with her brand of rock, which keeps being a weird paradox. You see, the elements she uses remain heavily recognizable, yet she positions them in a way you're not used to. Her latest does this the best, since she developed her own tone there by shedding the obvious pointer towards her influences, which few of her peers are willing to do. One can only look forward to her next move, Hunter is a promise with potential.

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Sing To Me by Anna Calvi from One Breath - Director: Emma Nathan

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[amovitametmortem]

Mally Harpaz, Colonial Sun, Valve and more plus some special guest 😉 at the Victoria Dalston, London Dec. 19 2017. Photos courtesy of Michael Golding, Cult of Calvi

[sadovsky]

I got the chance to ask mega talented multi-instrumentalist Mally Harpaz (Anna Calvi, Hazel Iris, Lunatic Crash) some questions about music and what inspires her. Mally is super nice, warm, and open, and she lives and bleeds music the way a musician should. Certainly the way I always wish to.

Mally also has an album of her own compositions in the works as we speak which is gonna be wicked. You can see her perform some of them in London on 5th September. 

Please share the link around!

@ Mally Harpaz: An Instrumental Inspiration

[echowantshervoiceback]

Had so much fun opening for Mally Harpaz, alongside Raf and O, this week, with my long time buddy and collaborator MaW on guitar/mandolin/vocals. Here's my song "Gone For Good" from my album "Heart Of Stone" available here:https://echowantshervoiceback.bandcamp.com 

[italianaradio]

Anna Calvi: fiamme e velluto nel live romano

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Anna Calvi: fiamme e velluto nel live romano

Un nuovo spazio per concerti (Social Park di Roma), un po’ complicato da raggiungere, ma organizzato ed efficiente, è la location scelta per la data capitolina di uno dei nomi più interessanti del nuovo panorama musicale internazionale, Anna Calvi (artista britannica d’origine italiana). Prima di lei si esibiscono gli Rbsn di Alessandro Rebesani, buona e tecnica band di soul, jazz- fusion nostrana. Leggi anche:– Thirty Seconds to Mars a Roma: Jared Leto, il pifferaio magico Anna Calvi: fiamme e velluto nel live romano che conferma la grandezza di un’artista priva di condizionamenti. L’attesa è, comunque, tutta per lei: lady Anna, la migliore sorpresa dell’indie internazionale di questi ultimi anni, oramai apprezzata da tanti anche in Italia. Cosa del tutto naturale anche dopo l’interesse suscitato in personaggi musicali di tutto rilievo come Brian Eno, David Byrne, Marianne Faithfull e Nick Cave e alla luce dei suoi dischi come l’ultimo e strepitoso “Hunter”, in particolare. Dal vivo, poi, queste impressioni acquistano ancora più concretezza visto che, fin dall’introduzione (l’omonimo brano che dà il titolo all’album), la Calvi appare ancora più convincente e brava, sorretta da una vocalità decisamente invidiabile, capace di passare dai toni più aggressivi a liriche elaborazioni. Sussurri sensuali spesso accompagnano la chiusura dei brani (per la maggior parte tratti da “Hunter”) che si espandono attraverso le originali elaborazioni della sua appendice elettrica una telecaster che appare enorme in confronto alla sua figura minuta, androgina e sexy. Fiamme e velluto camminano appaiati alla ricerca di un’identità che possa comprendere ogni pulsione senza per forza essere codificata: libertà assoluta senza distinzione di generi o di sesso. Musicalmente, poi, non c’è mai un momento di tregua e i fedeli compagni di viaggio (Daniel Maiden- Wood alla batteria e cori, Mally Harpaz alle tastiere e percussioni) appaiono in perfetta sintonia con la musicista britannica e capaci di seguirla magistralmente in ogni ispirazione. La chiusura (non poteva essere migliore) è affidata ad una cover dei Suicide (“Ghost Rider”), tratta dal loro primo album, nella quale la Calvi si produce in un dirompente assolo di chitarra (accovacciata in terra) che fa letteralmente impazzire i presenti. E’ passata poco più di un’ora dall’inizio del concerto ma, nonostante la brevità del set, siamo tutti soddisfatti di aver condiviso molteplici sensazioni con una grande artista in un ambito rock, così viscerale e sincero, come da tempo non accadeva. Anna Calvi scaletta concerto: Hunter Indies or Paradise As a Man Wish No More Words Swimming Pool Rider to the Sea Suzanne & I I’ll Be Your Man Desire Don’t Beat the Girl Out of My Boy Ghost Rider (Suicide Cover) crediti foto@kikapress

Leggi anche

L’elettronica dei Kraftwerk al Teatro di Ostia Antica: recensione, foto e scaletta

Venti brani per due ore di puro spettacolo: i Kraftwerk al Teatro di Ostia Antica ipnotizzano e incantano con un sound che affonda le proprie radici a 40anni fa e che è ancora straordinariamente moderno e futurista.

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[mychameleondays]

Anna Calvi: Anna Calvi

Gatefold

Domino WIGLP260

Released: January 17, 2011

[thankfolkforthat]

New Release: Anna Calvi - Hunter / Don't Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy

New Release: Anna Calvi - Hunter / Don't Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy....

Hunter, the third full-length record from double Mercury Music Prize-nominated Anna Calvi, will be released on 31st August

Produced by Nick Launay (Nick Cave, Grinderman) in London with some further production in LA, the album was recorded with Anna’s band – Mally Harpaz on various instruments and Alex Thomas on drums – with the addition of Adrian Utley from Portishead on keys and Martyn Casey…

[mitjalovse]

The Now Now presents one of the albums which concluded the previous decade for their musicians. Of course, many of them keep their relevance for the modern societal landscape, since we're still the part of the era that occur after the latter part of the period. Hunter by Anna Calvi, for instance, feels like a recent disc, since she deals with the themes of gender, which continue to get discussed in the contemporary society. However, she talks about them in an evolution of her previous idiom. One could claim that the reckless persona she merely hinted at during her previous LPs finally becomes displayed. While her mastery was never disputed, Hunter does present another facet of her, which makes her even more intriguing.

[nofatclips]

Don't Beat the Girl out of My Boy by Anna Calvi from the album Hunter - Director: William Kennedy

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Anna Calvi

Blind Dog Studio @ RYAN’S N16, STOKE NEWINGTON | January 12th, 2018

[natashalawes]

A magical treat to see @mallyharpaz play last night -multi-talented multi instrumental musician!! Blind Dog Studios Presents Mally Harpaz with special guests @annacalvi Colonial Sun & Valve...looking forward to the next one in 2018! #blinddogstudios #mallyharpaz #live #music

[lyrebyrd]

-who are those basic thots leaving after the encore... then magnetized to her like a zombie cult

-glenn is better with eliza but ben christophers does well on ghost rider!!!

-and to think sesto started off with the bridge!