Kt Tunstall

I just wanted to shoot out an entry on this artist - Kt Tunstall (No, that's not a typo) - I found her work while, not surprisingly, playing around on the NPR website, looking for someone or something to listen to while I typed up a justification for studying Paraguay. Fun, but besides the point.

Kt Tunstall is a Scottish solo artist who plays every imaginable instrument simultaneously while singing. Yes. I said it. And its true. What would have been an impossible act prior to the invention/discovery/harnassing-for-pop-culture-purposes of electricity now allows awesome people to expand their awesomeness to a rocktastic level. You're gonna' want to check out the NPR story first (here) - it'll give you some background that'll you appreciate later - I specifically like her interest in eliminating overly Baroque complexity, while still being able to use and appreciate complex instrumentality. Awesome. Double-awesome, there are four songs there - sorry though, they're streamers, so you'll have to be online to hear 'm. No MP3 magic.

Secondly, check out her website (here). There's more music, though its highly abbreviated for the most part. Her current American tour, by the by, has her in Nashvegas on the 12th of March. A Sunday. Dammit and diggit.

Oh, and the sound, hmm . . . its lyrically complex and stylistically unique, her enunciation is absolutely beautiful, and her riffs are off the charts. Hell, ignore me, but check her out.