Review: Darkling

Review: Darkling

Angel-faced, nightingale-voiced, devil-witted cabaret king Dusty Limits’s Darkling is a glorious and fleetingly self-deprecatory celebration of melancholy and mortality. Songs from artists as diverse as Amanda Palmer, Nick Cave, Kurt Weill and Noel Coward are...
Review: Peter Straker’s Brel

Review: Peter Straker’s Brel

Here’s a Jamaican singer interpreting the life and works of the Belgian iconoclast and father of the modern chanson, Jacques Brel. Is Peter Straker a great pretender? The first part of Peter Straker’s Brel focuses on telling Jamaican-born Straker’s...