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World/Soul

Rhiannon Giddens: There Is No Other (Nonesuch)

Trained in opera, a former member of US traditional folk group Carolina Chocolate Drops, curator of blues/jazz/field songs, a collaborative artist at ease with the stage (the ballet, Lucy Negro Redux) and classical music (Kronos Quartet), Ireland-based US singer and songwriter Rhiannon Giddens is quite the Renaissance woman. Here, she unites with other creative travellers, including Sicilian multi-instrumentalist and medieval music scholar, Francesco Turrisi, ...