Susheela Raman - 33 1/3
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Artist: Susheela RamanEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-07-31
Soundtracks:
- I'm Set Free
- Yoo Doo Right
- Where Did You Sleep Last Night
- Like a Rolling Stone
- Love Lies
- Oh My Love
- Voodoo Chile
- Heart and Soul
- Persuasion
- Ruler of My Heart
- Holidays in France [*]
Free Music Notes for 33 1/3
Free Music Review: Doing a covers album, 101
Hit: 5 Stars
For many artists, the covers album issued after two or three collections of original material usually signifies little more than the drought of inspiration and a short-cut into a creative cul-de-sac - not so Susheela Raman, who's new set "33 1/3" is an object lesson in presenting other people's songs in new ways and making them her own.
Raman has always experimented with high quality covers from both East and West in all her releases, alongside self-penned material. Joan Armatrading's Save Me (on 'Love Trap') was beautiful but perhaps too reverent, while Song To the Siren, which she made into a beautiful signature song, would always have a pretty tough job competing with This Mortal Coil's 'cover to end all covers' version of the Tim Buckley classic released in 1983. This album consolidates and moves forward, and nails the whole art of reinterpretation.
The CD contains 10 songs, many that are well-known (Voodoo Chile), others of which are likely to be unfamiliar to many listeners (Persuasion). The new album mixes fairly straightforward readings of some of the songs (the Velvet Underground's 'I'm Set Free' is a beautiful, straightforward statement of intent that stays faithful until a furious tabla break and scatted vocal takes it to new place) with glorious moments of deconstruction and reinvention (Joy Division's Heart and Soul is played to bring out its religious overtones and a dark sensuality that is continents away from Manchester of the late 1970s).
Not all the versions work - Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone' is impressive and ambitious but in a world in which Dylan covers are everywhere (the 'Masked and Anonymous' soundtrack of 2003 has the field cornered, and another two CDs of this stuff have just been released this week as 'I'm Not There') - but this is a minor quibble.
So if you like Susheela Raman's music, you have an open mind about hearing unexpected material given an innovative once-over (the singing and playing on this record are exemplary, and full of space) then you'll *really* like this.
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