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Sat 03 Mar 2010Childhood, through poetic eyes
A true labour of love and five years in the making, ‘Leave Your Sleep’ is a double album of poetry set to music. The ambitious American singer- songwriter, Natalie Merchant, talks to TONY CLAYTON-LEA
COMPACT IN size yet expansive in intellect, American singer-songwriter (and more besides) Natalie Merchant had the measure of her latest ambitious project some time before she embarked on it. She places the palm of her right hand to her open mouth and mimes a yawn. Yet Merchant knows her forthcoming album – Leave Your Sleep, a double album of poetry set to music – is nowhere close to dull, which is why the feigned yawn turns into a broad smile.
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