Vanessa Anne Redd – Drona Sticks
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| Vanessa Anne Redd - Drona Sticks |
Release Date: Out Now
Well here’s something a little
different. I listen to so much music in the pursuit of sorting the wheat from
the chaff that sometimes you become immune to certain songs and melodies but
London based German Vanessa Anne Redd is hugely refreshing and sticks out like
a red poppy in a field covered in snow. This new single, ‘Drona Sticks’, opens
with some muted guitar notes and some real campfire percussion (including hand
claps) that all start to build together slowly to create a raw but utterly
uplifting piece as some dissonant piano notes and layered vocals all add to the
audio soup. Think PJ Harvey and Patti Smith messing about in a London studio on
a grey, Autumnal Sunday afternoon or Anna Calvi and Kim Deal being pushed by
Bjork to let their inner spirit speak through their playing. I normally shy
away from comparing female musicians with only other female musicians but there
is something intrinsically creative and free spirited about Vanessa Anne Redd
that, for some reason, I cannot imagine anyone with testicles even coming close
to. The best I could do was Nick Cave but his spirit is far to leaden for that
to work.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/vanessa.a.redd
Live Dates:
9th November – Servant Jazz Quarters, London