Planningtorock – review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonBerlin-based electronic composer/performer Janine Rostron – AKA Planningtorock – opens her Meltdown performance with Purcell's baroque fragment Music for a While, which promises that music "shall all your cares beguile". It's no throwaway gesture. Both meanings of that last word, "beguile", describe her art: charming, for sure, but also deceptive, cloaked in trickery.Tonight, Rostron eschews the effects that transform her vocals into a gender-neutral croon on reco...

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