I first heard
Natalie Merchant's amazing voice on the TV, when she and her former band
10000 Maniacs covered
Patti Smith's song "
Because The Night" on
MTV Unplugged. I haven't heard a lot of her music since that early 90's, but when I put her second solo album named
Ophelia, which was released 15 years ago on 19 of March, 1998, I fell in love with her music again.
Ophelia was produced by the British composer
Gavin Bryars and it is rich in instrumental arrangements and co operations with other artist such as
Karen And Don Peris from
The Innocence Mission and
N'dea Davenport from the
Brand New Heavies. This is not a concept album, as many think, but
Natalie Merchant tries to show the female standpoint, who looks at the social structure and finds out some of the opportunities are closed. In a certain sense, it holds a Feminist point of view and was quit rare in that time. Here are five songs from this album, hoping you'd like i
Album Rating: 7/10
Kind And Generous
Ophelia
King Of May
Break Your Heart (With N'dea Davenport of Brand New Heavies)
The Living
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