The Blackened Air: Clear Vinyl LP Anoushka Shankar and two vocalizers

and two vocalizers

” Over the past few years

Available on 6-track black heavyweight vinyl housed in a reverse board sleeve with insert

that's what frees me up creatively and lets me play more with lyrical gags and lyrical fows because I don't have to be focused on everything"

This time around they bring in Robert Johnsons’ howling ‘Me And The Devil Blues’

The Blackened Air: Clear Vinyl LP Anoushka Shankar and two vocalizersOn The Blackened Air (her second album but first for Touch and Go, originally released in 2002), Nina Nastasia and her band are not content to just support a vocal melody; they pry it apart and look down its throat. The stringed and wind instruments (viola, cello, mandolin, accordion, bowed saw, acoustic and electric guitars) reach up out of the songs into rarefied territory. Little stories of Peeping Toms and the police lights they bring with them,