Viktoria Tolstoy: Meet Me At The Movies

Rating: ★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Nils Landgren (tr, voc)
Rasmus Kihlberg (d)
Mattias Svensson (b)
Krister Jonsson (g)
Iiro Rantala (p)
Viktoria Tolstoy (v)

Label:

ACT

April/2017

Catalogue Number:

9827-2

RecordDate:

April-September 2016

A massive film fan all her life, Meet Me At The Movies sees Swedish vocalist Viktoria Tolstoy exploring some of her favourite songs from the big screen. The singer casts a completely different perspective on the album's high-water mark, ‘As Time Goes By’ from Casablanca, in which pianist Iiro Rantala's solo seems to float across the musical landscape, such is its delicacy and lightness of touch. From True Crime, Tolstoy brings some of her characteristic vulnerability to ‘Why Should I Care’, matched by a perfectly apposite acoustic guitar solo from Krister Jonsson. Album producer Nils Landgren joins Tolstoy for a duet on ‘Love Song For A Vampire’ from Bram Stoker's Dracula, a song which is bathed in an atmospheric haze of electronica. From Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark, Tolstoy's purity of sound contrasts tellingly with the almost harsh, monolithic backdrop in Björk's ‘New World’. From Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, and arranged here as a stripped back guitar/voice duet, ‘Smile’ brings the album to a delicate close.

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