The voice of seduction on a mythical scale, that's Ursula Rucker. "Sirens have nothing on my song" she proudly proclaimed on the mind shattering 'Circe', a sublime tale of a mythical woman and she was right. Her voice fills me with awe, it has a stern edge that speaks with authority but through it, always, slithers an eroticism that can consist of intimate whispers as well as inhuman bliss. Let's face it Ursula Rucker is the ultimate pretender, she speaks the tongue of the gods, the mythical and the archetypal. She can sing with the voice of every woman: Helen of Troy watching how wars are fought over her, Athena whispering wise words to Ulysses but also the anonymous mothers and sisters of history. Rucker in this sense belongs to a precious group of singers who find strength and beauty in the pagan, think Patti Smith, Kate Bush and Björk. That good.
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