Now here's something quite new and quite thrilling. The third album from Italian born and bred singer songwriter Emma Tricca, St Peter. It's a Folk record, evocative to me of the best records from the golden era of that sound of the Sixties and Seventies.
Tricca's voice has the otherworldly qualities of Karen Dalton and the record is textured, weaving and highly inventive. Recorded in New York and augmented by a classy band of Steve Shelley, (Sonic Youth) on drums, Pete Calub on bass and the Dream Syndicate's Jason Victor's particularly prominent guitar. Supported by a number of other contributors including Judy Collins, and Howie Gelb the record might call to mind Vashti Bunyan, Davy Graham and Laura Nyro, by Tricca has her own stride and walks her own walk. An album that on only a couple of plays has already taken a fierce grip on my imagination, St Peter is a record that something quite apart from anything else I've heard this year. A rites of passage experience. As resonant and evocative as a great novel.
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