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Rebecca Clamp 
Rebecca
Clamp
is a singer songwriter pianist originally from Cambridge (UK)
but now living in Finland. Noted for her passionate voice and
idiosyncratic piano playing, she has a style which is entirely
her own. Rebecca’s quirky lyrics examine the everyday from
unusual perspectives: she draws you into a world where mobile
phones run away to join nunneries and bearded female saints
appear at five in the morning to give you advice on your love
life. Her lyrical world is rich with the minutiae of life;
insects, origami boats, smiles, and cigarette smoke in a beams
of light all flicker through her songs.
Her intimate and
truthful performances take you through the whole range of
emotions.
She’s been compared to Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Susan
Vega, amongst others but her favourite was when a huge Mafioso
looking Italian came up to her after a gig in Helsinki, kissed
her on both cheeks and told her she was like ‘Marian Faithful
without the drugs’.
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NOCTURNAL
LEAP - Rebecca Clamp
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Folkwit Records
(f0014)
CD
Album - £7.99(GBP) +
P&P
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Track list:
Hymn To Chaos
Tower Of You
Xanthopan Morganii
Hecate
Paper Boats
Again
The Moment
The Sad Story Of Lois Duchamp
Isadora's Alice Party
Tower Of You (Alternative Arrangement)
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“I don’t
like this sort of music normally, but …
In the female
singer-songwriter stakes, Rebecca Clamp is my tip for the top.
With free-flowing literacy, she paints somewhat beautiful
song-pictures of an elegant romantic world of delicate intense
emotion. It’s a consoling, compelling world of quiet style:
an impressionist painting, a Bloomsbury short story or a
French arthouse film. Yet Rebecca packs real power, through a
voice someway between Patti Smith and Melanie, and through the
stark solitude of an artist alone with just a rippling piano
for accompaniment. There’s a particular sense of an artist
crafting from nothing something refined and softly vital, not
a reflection of the world but a sculptured microcosmos: an
elaborate, softly contoured but emotionally real dreamworld,
an audacious nocturnal leap, indeed, of tasteful decorum.
And it ain’t
just me who thinks so. I’ve played the album to all of my
house guests, and they all like it very much too.
Furthermore,
the appeal of Nocturnal Leap is enhanced by the knowledge that
this so-English young lady has emigrated to Finland.
So if you like
Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, Bjork, those sort of
singers, you’d be an idiot not to check out Rebecca Clamp.
Tell you what,
if you buy this album on the strength of this review and
don’t like it, let me know and I’ll write you a personal
note of apology.” 5/5
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Rychard Carringon, Rock ‘n’ Reel Magazine
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