Anna Calvi spreder vigtigt budskab på nyt album - ude d. 31. august
”Hunter” er det tredje fuldlængde album fra den BRIT Award- og dobbelt Mecury Prize nominerede musiker og sangerinde Anna Calvi. Albummet udkommer den 31. august 2018 på Domino Recordings / Playground Music i Norden.
”Hunter” er produceret af Nick Launey (Nick Cave, Grinderman) i Konk Studios i London og med ekstra produktion i Los Angeles. Albummet er indspillet med Annas band; Mally Harpaz på forskellige instrumenter og Alex Thomas på trommer, med yderligere hjælp fra Adrian Utley (Portishead) på keyboard og Martyn Casey (The Bad Seeds) på bas. Albummet har en ny råhed og en energi, hvor Calvi rykker grænserne for sin guitar og sin stemme som aldrig før.
Det kommende album handler om følelsen af virkelig, at kunne give slip. Et album, der udforsker seksualitet og bryder kønsnormerne. Det er et queer og feministisk album, som er lige så skrøbeligt som det er stærkt, lige så smukt som det er hårdt. Calvi er forsigtig med ikke at karakterisere disse træk som ”maskuline” eller ”feminine” – hele pointen er, at en person, af ethvert køn, kan være begge dele.
Sammen med dagens annoncering, deler Anna Calvi en musikvideo til den første single fra albummet – ’Don’t Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy’. Om singlen fortæller Calvi: “It’s a song about the defiance of happiness. It’s about being free to identify yourself in whichever way you please, without any restraints from society.”
Videoen til ’Don’t Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy’ er instrueret af William Kennedy, der netop har samarbejdet med Kendrick Lamar, og koreograferet af Arron Sillis (FKA twigs) – se videoen her:
Det kommende album handler om følelsen af virkelig, at kunne give slip. Et album, der udforsker seksualitet og bryder kønsnormerne. Det er et queer og feministisk album, som er lige så skrøbeligt som det er stærkt, lige så smukt som det er hårdt. Calvi er forsigtig med ikke at karakterisere disse træk som ”maskuline” eller ”feminine” – hele pointen er, at en person, af ethvert køn, kan være begge dele.
Sammen med dagens annoncering, deler Anna Calvi en musikvideo til den første single fra albummet – ’Don’t Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy’. Om singlen fortæller Calvi: “It’s a song about the defiance of happiness. It’s about being free to identify yourself in whichever way you please, without any restraints from society.”
Videoen til ’Don’t Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy’ er instrueret af William Kennedy, der netop har samarbejdet med Kendrick Lamar, og koreograferet af Arron Sillis (FKA twigs) – se videoen her:
Anni Calvi har netop offentliggjort en omfattende turné, hvor hun blandt andet besøger Danmark hele tre gange: Posten i Odense d. 27. oktober, VEGA i København d. 4. november og på Voxhall i Århus d. 5. november.
Anna Calvi fortæller om “Hunter”:
“I'm hunting for something - I want experiences, I want agency, I want sexual freedom, I want intimacy, I want to feel strong, I want to feel protected and I want to find something beautiful in all the mess.
I want to go beyond gender. I don’t want to have to chose between the male and female in me. I’m fighting against feeling an outsider and trying to find a place that feels like home.
I believe that gender is a spectrum. I believe that if we were allowed to be somewhere in the middle, not pushed to the extremes of performed masculinity and femininity, we would all be more free. I want to explore how to be something other than just what I've been assigned to be. I want to explore a more subversive sexuality, which goes further than what is expected of a woman in our patriarchal heteronormative society. I want to repeat the words “girl boy, woman man", over and over, to find the limits of these words, against vastness of human experience.
I believe in the female protagonist, who isn’t simply responding to a man’s story. I go out into the world and see it as mine - I want something from it, rather than just being a passive product of it. I'm hungry for experiences. Sometimes things seem clear, and other times I feel lost. I feel strong and yet vulnerable; I wear my body and my art as an armour, but I also know that to be true to myself is to be open to being hurt.
The intent of this record is to be primal and beautiful, vulnerable and strong, to be the hunter and the hunted.”
- Anna
Trackliste
1. As A Man
2. Hunter
3. Don’t Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy
4. Indies Or Paradise
5. Swimming Pool
6. Alpha
7. Chain
8. Wish
9. Away
10. Eden
Anna Calvi socials:
Website I Facebook I Instagram I Twitter
Anna Calvi fortæller om “Hunter”:
“I'm hunting for something - I want experiences, I want agency, I want sexual freedom, I want intimacy, I want to feel strong, I want to feel protected and I want to find something beautiful in all the mess.
I want to go beyond gender. I don’t want to have to chose between the male and female in me. I’m fighting against feeling an outsider and trying to find a place that feels like home.
I believe that gender is a spectrum. I believe that if we were allowed to be somewhere in the middle, not pushed to the extremes of performed masculinity and femininity, we would all be more free. I want to explore how to be something other than just what I've been assigned to be. I want to explore a more subversive sexuality, which goes further than what is expected of a woman in our patriarchal heteronormative society. I want to repeat the words “girl boy, woman man", over and over, to find the limits of these words, against vastness of human experience.
I believe in the female protagonist, who isn’t simply responding to a man’s story. I go out into the world and see it as mine - I want something from it, rather than just being a passive product of it. I'm hungry for experiences. Sometimes things seem clear, and other times I feel lost. I feel strong and yet vulnerable; I wear my body and my art as an armour, but I also know that to be true to myself is to be open to being hurt.
The intent of this record is to be primal and beautiful, vulnerable and strong, to be the hunter and the hunted.”
- Anna
Trackliste
1. As A Man
2. Hunter
3. Don’t Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy
4. Indies Or Paradise
5. Swimming Pool
6. Alpha
7. Chain
8. Wish
9. Away
10. Eden
Anna Calvi socials:
Website I Facebook I Instagram I Twitter