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9/30
Currently discovering the late and great Mexican/American/Canadian Lhasa de Sela, singing in 3 language and across multiple genres. A beautiful voice, earthy, intimate, melancholy.
lhasadesela.bandcamp.com/track/love-c...
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8/30
A recent discovery. The tragic story of Karen Dalton, a forgotten folk heroine of the 1960ies. Of whom they said she used her voice like an instrument. And what a mesmerising voice.
karendalton.bandcamp.com/track/someth...
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7/30
Canadian pianist and composer Alexandra Stréliski and her enchanting and melancholy piano melodies.
alexandrastrliski.bandcamp.com/track/plus-t-t
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6/30
Marina Herlop, from Spain, and her bewitching experimental compositions that are voice and rhythm and chaos, organic blips and bloops. Mutek discovery!
marinaherlop.bandcamp.com/track/shaoli...
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5/30
Jessica Moss (of Thee Silver Mount Zion and Black Ox Orkestar) and her layers of violin and drone take you onto another plane, beautiful and foreboding.
jessicamoss.bandcamp.com/track/distor...
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4/30
Soap&Skin aka Anja Plaschg, probably my favorite Austrian musician. Gentle piano, a gloomy vibe, and a haunting, raw, powerful voice.
Waiting patiently for her to release her new cover album TORSO on bandcamp 🙏
soapandskin.bandcamp.com/track/mr-gau...
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3/30
Guitarist and vocalist Kee Avil aka Vicky Mettler, from Montreal, like Motte a bandcamp discovery, is all airy arrangements, fragile, fractured, dissonant, twitchy, intricate.
keeavil.bandcamp.com/track/i-too-...
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2/30
Violinist and composer Motte aka Anita Clark, from New Zealand. Ethereal, layered, ominous.
mottemotte.bandcamp.com/album/strang...
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1/30
Starting with Mirel Wagner because I only just discovered here on this tag. What a voice. Haunting, gloomy, bluesy.
mirelwagner.bandcamp.com/track/to-the...
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Day 24 - November
How did I omit Sandy from last month's #30GreatWomenMusicians? Time to remedy that. This song even sounds like November...
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Missed this from my recent #MusicChallenge and #30GreatWomenMusicians, but currently listening to, and it's a great track: Only One Thing Is Needed - Electralane youtu.be/94N95xUAV1Y?...
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Linda Ronstadt, "You're No Good"
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As noted in the comments: No autotune, no lipsync. I'm pretty sure the mic wasn't compressed much, either. Just the raw fucking power of a goddamned goddess doing her thing.
Keep her in your thoughts.
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Maria Callas, "Ave Maria"
youtu.be/j8KL63r9Zcw?...
The Queen.
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Tina Turner, "River Deep, Mountain High"
youtu.be/Wu9RsJnf_c8?...
R&R Hall of Fame IMPROMPTU performance - just got up there & gave the best goddamned performance of the night - WITH NO REHEARSAL & a band of PEERS who hadn't rehearsed, either.
Fucking EPIC.
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Eva Cassidy, "Ain't No Sunshine"
youtu.be/L9rwTiXSogY?...
Taken FAR too soon, this marvelous artist had the voice of an angel, an immeasurable musical talent. Her rendition of "Imagine" made her a posthumous star. I love this & "Wade In the Water" best.
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Cyndi Lauper, "I Drove All Night"
youtu.be/2y1TZXc5DiY?...
This is HER song, not Celine Dion's. Lauper also wrote the Broadway show, "Kinky Boots." She is a GREAT singer & writer, a Renaissance woman, & and all-around underrated genius.
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Billie Holiday, "Strange Fruit"
youtu.be/Web007rzSOI?...
Lady Day first sang this song about lynching by Abel Meeropol in 1939 in a club, then recorded it.
It made her a star, though her own song, "God Bless the Child," was her best-selling record.
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe, "Didn't It Rain"
youtu.be/kglY4r5BMSI?...
Without Sister Rosetta, there'd be no rock & roll as we know it. NO ELVIS. No Stones. No Beatles. No Bery, Clapton, Beck. No Hendrix or Nirvana.
But who's heard of her? NOT NEARLY ENOUGH OF US.
🥨 Philly born 🥨
Queen of the organ. RIP
American Jazz organist 1934-2002
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30. Shirley Scott
Mikayla Simpson, better known as Koffee, is a Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter, rapper, deejay and guitarist from Spanish Town, Jamaica
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29. Koffee
Check out 2018 Documentary "Bad Reputation"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KSF...
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26. Joan Jett
Godmother of Rock & Roll; posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.
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25. Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Annika Henderson: British-German singer-songwriter/ political journalist
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24. Anika
Delia Ann Derbyshire - Experimental electronic musician famous for delivering the theme to DOCTOR WHO!!!
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22. Delia Derbyshire
