Corn Exchange,Cambridge
There’s not a cameraphone in sight at this gathering of the Spektor faithful, all drawn to her wealthy, and idiosyncratic songwriting‘I used to believe calling me ‘quirky’ was a intelligent way of keeping down anything creative and adventurous. But if a guy is the way I am,hes a ‘visionary’,” Regina Spektor told the Guardian on the release of current album Remember Us to Life. She has a point – when was the last time David Byrne or Devendra Banhart, or who can be equally whimsical,were tarred with the Q word?Yet its fair to say that the classically trained Russian New Yorker pianist and singer heaps on the fanciful trimmings with a relish that makes her male counterparts seem conventional. Tonight she enforces the rule that there’s no such thing as too much theatricality, rolling her Rs with relish during the Russian-language verses of Après Moi, and adding helium-squeak tall notes to the choruses of Bleeding Heart. Related: Regina Spektor: ‘The only reason I’m Jewish is antisemitism’ Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com