Virna Lindt is a former model and singer from Sweden. She released two albums, Shiver in 1983 and Play/Record in 1985, both on the Compact Organisation label, and both collaborations with writer/producer/arranger Tot Taylor. Combining pop, soundtrack and experimental influences, they have since been reissued on CD by LTM. Her style has been described as "John Barry-meets-new wave" and, in another review, a diseuse. I love women who can’t sing. I don’t mean the mute, or the tone-deaf, but the type of artist the French politely call a diseuse, i.e. a performer who recites lyrics over music, rather than flat out singing (although when they sing, it is flat). Vocalists who do not even attempt to carry a tune – even when it may be as close as the piano accompaniment – because it is just too cumbersome, and, really a girl can’t be expected to hold anything heavier than a cocktail in these shoes. Terry has written before about my very favorite diseuse, Cristina. But in the madcap ’80s, Ms. Monet Zilkha was but one of a clutch of like-minded dramatic dames who cut sought-after albums. Not long ago, LTM Recordings reissued the work of Hermine, a former tightrope aerialist and colleague of The Flying Lizards. Now they continue delving into this dubious tradition with expanded editions of the work of Swedish oddball Virna Lindt.
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ResponderEliminarVirna Lindt is a former model and singer from Sweden. She released two albums, Shiver in 1983 and Play/Record in 1985, both on the Compact Organisation label, and both collaborations with writer/producer/arranger Tot Taylor. Combining pop, soundtrack and experimental influences, they have since been reissued on CD by LTM. Her style has been described as "John Barry-meets-new wave" and, in another review, a diseuse.
ResponderEliminarI love women who can’t sing. I don’t mean the mute, or the tone-deaf, but the type of artist the French politely call a diseuse, i.e. a performer who recites lyrics over music, rather than flat out singing (although when they sing, it is flat). Vocalists who do not even attempt to carry a tune – even when it may be as close as the piano accompaniment – because it is just too cumbersome, and, really a girl can’t be expected to hold anything heavier than a cocktail in these shoes.
Terry has written before about my very favorite diseuse, Cristina. But in the madcap ’80s, Ms. Monet Zilkha was but one of a clutch of like-minded dramatic dames who cut sought-after albums. Not long ago, LTM Recordings reissued the work of Hermine, a former tightrope aerialist and colleague of The Flying Lizards. Now they continue delving into this dubious tradition with expanded editions of the work of Swedish oddball Virna Lindt.