Kirsten Morrison
Proserpine's Gold

THE REVIEW

Published about six months ago, Kirsten Morrison's debut album reveals a cultured, versatile, and highly talented artist. Her extensive musical studies, including a diploma in film music, allow her to showcase an unprecedented and sophisticated musical dimension. The tracks, very homogeneous, are a pastiche of Anglo-Saxon folk, lo-fi instrumentation, electronics, and classical music, given that she is a soprano and interpreter of various operas. If you add to this the fact that Morrison collaborates both in the studio and on tour with the New Wave witch Lene Lovich, the disorientation is total! Author of many jingles, TV themes, and soundtracks, as well as operas like "Songs of Alchemy," her approach to singing in this "Proserpine's Gold" is that of a classical repertoire singer lent to a personal crossover where the various souls of this multifaceted artist converge. In her sound universe, a bolero stands alongside a medieval march, or here's the song of an owl introducing a pagan dance, lively and dark at the same time, the sound of a music box and a harp accompany her expressive voice in another track with a vaguely Russian or Northern European flavor. In short, Kirsten's eccentric musical spells are the soul of the album, with inspiration for the lyrics coming from poets and artists like Byron, Rimbaud, Coleridge, and Edgar Allan Poe, and the beautiful final track that seems like a siren's song, even though it's titled "Solar Flare," summarizes the visionary and evocative spirit of Kirsten Morrison's fascinating recording debut.