We
didn’t mention it in the CD review, but her album is going to wind up in BLURT’s
Top 20 this year…
By Fred Mills
New Orleans
– by way of Sweden
– songbird Theresa Andersson is on the road with her acclaimed Hummingbird, Go! album now through
mid-November; on selected dates she’ll be joined by her friends and homelanders
Ane Brune and Tobias Froberg.
No less an, uhh, authority than
your friendly neighborhood BLURT recently gave it a nine-star review, citing
the songbird’s “undeniable earthiness and primal power” that channels both the
polyglot musicality of her adopted hometown (she’s lived in the Crescent City
since 1990, at the age of 18) and the contemporary, all-over-the-map indiepop
sound Sweden. She’s a cross between Kate Bush, Feist, Joan Osborne, Duffy and
Tori Amos.
Check her MySpace page for more bio
info and sound samples.
All the more remarkable: the
cinematic-sounding album was recorded almost entirely in her kitchen, with
Swedish producer Tobias Froberg helping bring the project to fruition. Her
shows have been described as “little masterpieces of functional choreography,”
which is to say: check out the astounding, much-viewed home video posted below
the tour dates if you want to get a sense of where she’s coming from. That’s a
lot of music coming from just one throat, two hands, and a pair of bare feet.
Wait for the moment near the end
when she picks up her violin (her main instrument, if you can dig that) – it’ll
bring tears to your eyes.
Theresa Andersson Tour Dates:
Sep 30 2008 10:45P
DC9 Washington DC, Washington
DC
Oct 2 2008 9:00P
Howlin’
Wolf (NOLA INDIE ROCK FEST DAY 1 w/ The City Life, Big Blue Marble & MOD
Dance Party DJs) New
Orleans, Louisiana
Oct 3 2008 7:00P
Borders
Metairie – In store performance Metairie, Louisiana
Oct 5 2008 5:00P
Bayfest –
Launching Pad Stage Mobile, Alabama
Oct 9 2008 10:30P
Sticky
Fingerz Little Rock, Arkansas
Oct 10 2008 10:00P
Two Stick
Sushi Oxford,
Mississippi
Oct 12 2008 8:00P
The
Belcourt Theatre (w/The Everybodyfields) Nashville, Tennessee
Oct 18 2008 8:00P
The Grey
Eagle (w/Seth Kauffman) Asheville,
North Carolina
Oct 19 2008 8:15P
Gravity
Lounge Charlottesville, Virginia
Oct 22 2008 9:00P
Living Room
(CMJ SHOWCASE w/Ane Brun, Tobias Froberg & The Real Ones) New York, New York
Oct 23 2008 8:00P
Tin Angel
(w/ Ane Brun & Tobias Froberg) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oct 24 2008 9:00P
IOTA Club
& Cafe (w/ Ane Brun & Tobias Froberg) Arlington, Virginia
Oct 25 2008 7:30P
Attucks
Theatre (w/ Ane Brun & Tobias Froberg) Norfolk, Virginia
Oct 28 2008 8:00P
The
Basement Nashville, Tennessee
Oct 29 2008 10:45P
Canal
Street Tavern (The Buddha Den Presents) Dayton, Ohio
Oct 30 2008 9:00P
Rathskeller
Restaurant Indianapolis, Indiana
Nov 1 2008 7:00P
Schubas (w/
Ane Brun & Tobias Froberg) Chicago, Illinois
Nov 6 2008 9:00P
London Music Club (w/Tobias Froberg) London,
Ontario
Nov 7 2008 8:45P
El Mocambo
(w/ Ane Brun & Tobias Froberg) Toronto, Ontario
Nov 8 2008 8:00P
Les Saints
(w/Ane Brun & Tobias Froberg) Montreal, Quebec
Nov 10 2008 10:00P
Great Scott
(w/Ane Brun & Tobias Froberg) Allston,
Massachusetts
Nov 12 2008 9:15P
Union Hall
(w/Ane Brun & Tobias Froberg) Brooklyn, New
York