Anna Calvi's orchestral manoeuvres

How hypnosis, Debussy and Edith Piaf influenced one of 2011's great hopesHyptnotised by the new goth"I developed as a guitarist by trying to make my guitar sound like other instruments," says Anna Calvi, the gothically inclined singer-songwriter who has been attracting excited attention since signing to the Domino label last year. She doesn't want her Fender Stratocaster to sound like a guitar, she says, she'd prefer it to sound like a Bechstein piano.That pursuit of difference is clear in her l...

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