MELANIE HORSNELL – TROBAIRITZ: REVIEW
MELANIE HORSNELL Trobairitz (Good Stem Records/MGM) No, no, no, Melanie Horsnell. Did you not get the memo? There’s a way these things are meant to go when you have an album of almost brutal (sonic) simplicity – voice, guitar, and that’s it – with the none-more-atractive tone of a folk-ish record that was made in 1967 and left undiscovered for 40 or 50 years. And it goes double if it is a woman, so you can mention people like Sibylle Baier and Vashti Bunyan, or Linda Perhacs: