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KATY CARR: COQUETTE

HAUNTING: Carr's songs have spectral atmosphere

Friday November 6,2009

By Robert Spellman

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COQUETTE is an original and fascinating work.

Carr celebrates the “beautiful feminine energy” of war-time icons Gracie Fields, Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers, evoking their resilience, beauty and eroticism in the most haunting and uncanny ways.

The songs have spectral atmospheres and cover various themes: White Cliffs tells of a suicide when a housewife learns of her pilot husband’s death and Berliner Ring portrays Marlene Dietrich trapped in Berlin at the outbreak of war.

(Deluce Recordings)

VERDICT 4/5

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