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When Bryan Ferry and his band played the Royal Albert Hall in March 2020, none of those present could have foreseen that the triumphant climax to his UK tour would signal the end of normal live music for the next year.
The famous old London venue turned 150 on Monday, but the second of Ferry s two nights was the last full-capacity show at the hall before lockdown.
Those gigs have now been commemorated on an excellent live album, with proceeds going to the singer s inactive touring musicians and road crew.
The gigs performed by Bryan Ferry and his band at the Royal Albert Hall in March 2020 have now been commemorated on an excellent live album
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The Meditations Of Valerie June The Southern vocalist is conjuring outernational vibrations.
Valerie June seems to bring out the beauty of her surroundings.
A green-fingered soul queen, she s spent lockdown conjuring all manner of creations for her mother s Tennessee garden, completely at one with her surroundings.
Indeed, there s a zen-like quality to her gnomic songwriting that feels slightly at odds with the grit her Southern soul influences usually imbue. It s this slight contradiction that lends her work such power - Valerie is able to move with emotional directness, while also channelling something otherworldly.
New album The Moon & Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers lands this week, and it s a fascinating, nuanced, multi-texted experience.
Author of the article: Eric Volmers
Publishing date: Feb 17, 2021 • February 17, 2021 • 5 minute read • Valerie June. Photo by Renata Raksha. jpg
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Valerie June noticed something strange in Miami when she was recording her latest album. It seemed every session was conducted under a full moon.
The Tennessee-born singer-songwriter insists this was not part of some plan to schedule sessions around astrological or astronomical timetables. But it was an interesting coincidence just the same and it didn’t end there. Later, when June and producer Jack Splash moved the project to another studio in Los Angeles, the singer says she went outside on the final night of recording and looked up just in time to see three shooting stars blaze through the night sky.