Bravely, Confusingly, Nakhane Touré | The Con. It was early 2012. An email arrived from some young musician I had never heard of before. I lie. I had heard his name mentioned by a friend. He was Nakhane Touré, or, as his email suggested, Nakhane Mahlakahlaka. But I had never heard him perform live or even heard his music. It began with a gentle rhythm and some ghostly vocals, deep and menacing, yet seductive: “A coat too heavy,” is the first line you hear.
Birthday Party guitar riffs prowled backstage as his voice sang about being “down by the river”. I was smitten. Clapping hands and electric guitar, which sounded like the late Ali Farka Touré, spliced from some long-lost radio broadcast, drove the song forward. The song was from the black American slave tradition, but with a romantic Gothic tinge, and described the last living moments of English writer Virginia Woolf before she drowned in the River Ouse. It was all so lo-fi, so bedroom recording, and I loved it. There were other songs to come, four or five in all, as I recall. Frozen_autumn : THIS is too cute !! Can't stop... Fortune Teller by Chelsea Williams on Socialcam - Jul 12. ADELE - SKYFALL. Coldplay - Fix You with lyrics (fine)