Emiliana Torrini is the progeny of an Italian father and Icelandic mother, she made a few albums when she was young that only saw release in Iceland, but with her widely released Love In The Time Of Science she gained a wider audience in Europe. The album rode the last vestiges of an electronic trip-hop sound which has inevitably dated it despite some excellent songcraft, her second widely released full-length Fisherman’s Woman was a focused album of minimal folk instrumentation and her exquisite jazz inflected vocals. She worked closely with multi-instrumentalist Dan Carey on Fisherman’s Woman and since then Torrini has become godmother to his children, and what really shows through on that album and this new one is how well suited they are together, comfortable to explore any avenues that they encounter, and make something worthwhile out of it. Turns in co-writing Kylie Minogue single ‘Slow’, and lending her vocals to a song for the Lord Of The Rings films, are other notable, and slightly surprising, facts about this lady. Continue Reading