Anna Calvi says hi!

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Via jukebox heroines Artist to Watch: Anna Calvi Combines Dark Romance and Virtuosic Guitar Skills (Album Link)

Who: Twenty-eight-year-old Londoner whose self-titled debut has garnered huge raves in the UK. Calvi has drawn comparisons to PJ Harvey, with whom Calvi shares a producer (Rob Ellis) and a taste for torchy romanticism. But her songs – languorous ballads with reverb-heavy guitar atmospherics and bursts of clattering rock & roll – have a style, and a strangeness, all their own.

Early Start/Late Start: Calvi began taking violin lessons at age six and started teaching herself guitar two years later. "I got really into Jimi Hendrix," she says. "I used to listen to his records and try to play along." She developed into a skilled player – but shied away from singing until recently. "I knew I wanted to make my own music, but I had to get over my fear of singing. So about five years ago, I locked myself away and practiced singing for six hours a day." On Anna Calvi, her voice moves from hushed and confessional to a full-throated lioness's roar, calling to mind singers such as Nico and, yes, Polly Harvey. But Calvi's vocal heroines are divas of an older vintage. "I love Maria Callas and Edith Piaf," she says.
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Anna Calvi - Desire HD
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Anna Calvi - Jezebel (Live)
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Anna Calvi - Moulinette (Live)
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Anna Calvi - The red and the black and the blonde

To anyone familiar with Anna Calvi, it would come as little surprise to discover that there was a time when the 28-year-old singer-songwriter was considering going to art school, such is the ferocity of her vision and the eerie and sophisticated aesthetic that she has carefully constructed. In the end, though, music won out as the overriding passion. After all, Calvi was just four years old when she first asked her parents for a violin. There was something about the small, stringed instrument that fascinated the precocious young Londoner. By eight she was teaching herself to play the guitar that her father had left lying around the house and, at nine, Calvi became a fully-fledged songwriter, composing a tune imagining that she was in David Bowie's band. MORE

Anna Calvi - Suzanne & I

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Blast from the blast: Riot girrlls Voodoo Queen

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Until recently I'd had the impression that Riot Girrls were a strictly white phenomenom. Apparently, this wasn't quite true:

Anjali Bhatia - Lead Guitar, Ella Guru - Guitar and backing vocals (later replaced by Mary Deigan on Bass), Stefania Lucchesini - Drums, Rajni Bhatia - Keyboards, Anjula Bhasker - Bass (later replaced by Rebecca Lunn)



Voodoo Queens - Kenuwee Head


Voodoo Queens - Supermodel superficial

Voodoo Queens "Indian Filmstar"

Wikipedia sez: Voodoo Queens

The Voodoo Queens were a North London-based girl group, who reached number one in the Indie Charts in 1993.
The band composed of Anjali Bhatia (guitar, vocals), Ella Guru (guitar, backing vocals), Stefania Lucchesini (drums), Rajni Bhatia (keyboards) and Anjula Bhasker (bass).^[1] Rebecca Lunn later stepped in for Anjula who had to leave to visit family in India.^[2]
In late 1992, Anjali left the group Mambo Taxi where she was the drummer to start the Voodoo Queens, along with her sister Rajni and cousin Anjula, Ella Guru (of Mambo Taxi), and drummer Sunny.^[3]MORE

Pg 78 of Brimful of Asia negotiating ethnicity in the UK music scene talks about UK music press's response to the Asian members ethnicity.

Here's a review of some of their albums Binging On the Voodoo Queens at Grrrl Sounds Blog


Last Fm has a list of their EPs and LPs:
Chocolate Revenge, F is for Fame, Peel Sessions and Pabulum


Anjali Bhatia (drummer) is now making electronic dance music.


Ella Guru (lead guitarist) is now an artist.

They were both in the group Mambo Taxi though Bhatia left in 1992 and Ella in 1993.

Here's a taste of Mambo Taxi from a song released in 1993.

Mambo Taxi "Do You Always Dress Like That In Front Of Other Peoples Boyfriends?"
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Meet Filipino band General Luna

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General Luna - RED HEAVEN (Official Music Video) [HD]
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NANDITO - General Luna (Official Music Video)
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TILA - General Luna (Official Music Videos)
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Meet the femme fatales of General Luna

Introducing General Luna - five individual talents who have come together to give the male-dominated band scene a genuinely good n' hard kick in the butt: vocalist Nicole Asensio, guitarists Caren Mangaran and Audry Dionisio, bassist Alexis Montemayor and drummer Bea Lao are five seriously gifted and drifted individuals who have both the looks and skills that kill.

Though the individuals that make up this musical quintet are no strangers to the local band scene - vocalist Nicole formerly fronting Red Horse Beer Muziklaban finalist Crowjane, guitarist Caren being the lead vocalist and guitarist of power metal group Sanctus and Audry having sessioned with various local rock bands with her involvement in organizations like Fly High Productions and RockEd, bassist Alexis having played for local group Blush and drummer Bea Lao having wowed legends like Wally Gonzales with her impressive background under the tutelage of greats like Mar Dizon and Jun Regalado (not to mention has done a few drum clinics...), it seems almost unfair for their male contemporaries and counterparts that this "female first five" hone their chops together to create a sound that is sure to dominate both the airwaves and the live circuit. No doubt all eyes will be on them, and with the band's characteristic merging of classic rock riffage reminiscent of classic Pinoy Rock acts, and a driving rhythm section that's obviously young in its dynamic complexity, with a beat ala Tool's Danny Carey, yet also in respectful homage to the traditional rock grooves of John Bonham, audiences will hear that they are the real deal. It might be saying a lot, but trust us- these girls deliver more than a punch; it's definitely a rock n' roll wallop!MORE

Q&A: General Luna

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Apparently they were accused of being too pretty to play. Because the fact that they look good is entirely their problem doncha know, instead of whatever reaction to their beauty that society has. In any case, has anyone ever yelled at guys for being too pretty to have bands? And I am sure if they were not societally approved in terms of looks, they'd be screamed at for being ugly. I swear!

2010 General Luna is ‘the real deal’


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General Luna: Years-old rock chicks

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All-female band General Luna releases their debut album

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Fuck Yeah General Luna on Tumblr

Some all women metal bands

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ALL FEMALE BANDS (some bands from: Metaladies)

Mary's Blood / Save the Queen @吉祥寺CLUB SEATA 2010.02.22 (Japan)
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Frantic Amber - Wrath Of judgement (video version) (Swedish)
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Aphasia - Break the Ice (Japan)
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FLAGITIOUS IDIOSYNCRASY IN THE DILAPIDATION 2008-07-12 Obscene ektreme fest (Japan)
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Flammea- In Front of the Mirror (Brazil)
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Valhalla - Ensaio "sem truques" - Rehearsal (Brazil)
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Hysterica - We are the undertakers (Sweden)
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Astarte - Mutter Astarte (Greece) *blinking lights*
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Girls Metal band DESTROSE "Hakai no Bara"(破壊の薔薇)Live (Japan)
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Tormentress - Live at Metal Camp III (Singapore)
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Putrefied Beauty - Hot for Blood (Italy)
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Gallhammer - Blind my eyes (Japan)
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Time to Run by Phantom Blue Music Video (USA)
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