{"id":6483,"date":"2024-06-27T14:11:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T13:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=6483"},"modified":"2025-01-08T13:31:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:31:02","slug":"exclusive-shindig-qobuz-playlist-13-magical-voices-lost-little-girls-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=6483","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive Shindig! Qobuz playlist #13: Magical Voices \u2013 Lost Little Girls In Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We\u2019re very excited to be media partners with the truly\u00a0unique online streaming platform and\u00a0download store\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.qobuz.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Qobuz<\/span><\/a>. The 13th of our monthly bespoke playlists, which take in all manner of genres and sub-genres, scenes and beyond, then and now, is, perhaps, our most ambitious yet. Focusing on women in song we travel from 1955 right up\u00a0<\/strong><b>to 2024. There&#8217;s a certain style at play that we adore. We await your comments<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Qobuz-Instagram-Magical-Voices-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Qobuz-Instagram-Magical-Voices-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Qobuz-Instagram-Magical-Voices-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Qobuz-Instagram-Magical-Voices-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Qobuz-Instagram-Magical-Voices-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Qobuz-Instagram-Magical-Voices-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Qobuz-Instagram-Magical-Voices-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Qobuz-Instagram-Magical-Voices-96x96.png 96w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Qobuz-Instagram-Magical-Voices.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><i>Play <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/open.qobuz.com\/playlist\/20659764\">here<\/a><i> or use the scrollable frame with\u00a0tracklist the bottom of the page. You can sign up for a free trial today. Plans start from \u00a310.83 per month. For more on <\/i><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qobuz.com\/gb-en\/discover\">Qobuz<\/a><\/span><i> read our interview with MD Dan Mackta <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=5784\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.qobuz.com\/playlist\/22537017?zone=GB-en\" width=\"378\" height=\"390\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span>Your browser does not support iframes.<br \/>\n<span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span>\u00a0<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was falling in love with Amelia Coburn\u2019s 2024 debut album,<em> Between The Moon And The Milkman<\/em>, that got me thinking about a thread that has run through music for millennia. This playlist features material released between 1955 and 2024, a period just short of 70 years. Folk music and the fairytale have gone hand in hand ever since young girls sang songs around fires in worker\u2019s cottages, telling stories of their fears, desires and life. From Little Red Riding Hood to Amelia Coburn\u2019s \u2018See Saw\u2019, the \u201clost little girl\u201d has always strode the path between ing\u00e9nue and fighter. Magical Voices attempts to recast the \u201clost little girl\u201d as a powerful female force. These songs veer between innocence and sensuality, cue cinematic references <i>Night Of The Hunter<\/i>, <i>I Start Counting<\/i>, and <i>The Wicker Man<\/i>. The earliest track here, our scene setting opener, \u2018Pretty Fly (Pearl\u2019s Dream) And Lullaby\u2019 composed by Walter Schumann and sang by Betty Benson sets the tone perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>Amelia Coburn told me on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=6462\"><i>Shindig!<\/i> Broadcast on Soho Radio<\/a> of her love of Grimm\u2019s fairytales, film noir, German expressionism, Scott Walker and Nick Drake. She\u2019s 26 years old and carrying the flame. Hers is music made (and of) today that enraptures and captivates through its absolute purity. Bar the odd production flourish that denotes the time frame, all of the songs on this in-depth playlist are timeless. Somehow such genre terms as \u201cfolk\u201d, \u201cpop\u201d, \u201cpsychedelic\u201ddetract from the female quality they exude.<\/p>\n<p>On the cinematic front, \u2018I Start Counting\u2019, \u2018Old Man Willow\u2019, \u2018Willow\u2019s Song\u2019, \u2018O Willow Waly\u2019 and \u2018The Duke Of Burgundy\u2019, all counter darker, even adult, subject matter with something that can only be described as masked innocence. But it\u2019s not all witchcraft and encroaching sexuality, Shelby Flint\u2019s \u2018Someone\u2019s Waiting For You\u2019, from the 1977 Disney feature-length animation <i>The Rescuers<\/i>, is utterly romantic, as is the rare vocal appearance from Audrey Hepburn on our most gorgeous closing track \u2018Moon River\u2019 from <em>Breakfast At Tiffany\u2019s<\/em>. And if the cinema serves this theme very well, so do the French. Jane Birkin, Claudine Longet, Francoise Hardy, Stereloab, Melody\u2019s Echo Chamber and Charlotte Gainsbourg all capture in their own way the \u201cbreathy\u201d manner so adored by fans of ever so slightly sexy French pop, and they are all in no uncertain terms in control. Broadcast\u2019s Trish Keenan, Cobalt Chapel\u2019s Cecelia Fage, Gwenno, Pearl Charles, and Lavinia Blackwall are, like a few of the artists in the previous list, all ladies of the 21st century locked into the finely woven musical tapestry that lays before them.<\/p>\n<p>Evidently the hippie girls had the most fun, breaking down barriers that their peers on the earlier, closely related coffee house and folk club scenes, were paving the way for. There are many here, including mega star Joni Mitchell, cosmic dental nurse Linda Perhacs, Penny Nicholls, and not forgetting Grace Slick, who had sang the ultimate \u201clost little girl song\u201d \u2018White Rabbit\u2019. \u2018Lather\u2019 comes from the following year, this time turning the attention on a \u201cman boy\u201d. The UK progressive folk-rock movement happening at roughly the same time did a lot to place women centre stage. Likky from The Incredible String Band sings of the kooky \u2018Cosmic Boy\u2019, Midwinter\u2019s Jill Child, a young Enya in Clannad, Trees\u2019 Celia Humphris, Mellow Candle\u2019s Clodagh Simonds and Alison Bools, Fairport Convention\u2019s Judy Dyble and the wandering Vashti are all prime examples of this movement.<\/p>\n<p>The musical net has purposefully been cast wide with Magical Voices. Kate Bush took strange haunting music to the masses with her debut \u201978 album <em>The Kick Inside<\/em>. Instead of choosing \u2018Wuthering Heights\u2019, we\u2019ve selected the easier on the ear \u2018The Man With The Child In His Eyes\u2019. Shirley Collins represents the British folk revival with \u2018The Cuckoo\u2019 from her \u201959 debut <em>This England<\/em>, and Cilla Black offers something decidedly mainstream, but equally sweet, to the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully you too will find great pleasure in this genre and era defining playlist of talented females.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Jon &#8216;Mojo&#8217; Mills \/Shindig! magazine in partnership with Qobuz<\/p>\n<span class=\"synved-social-container synved-social-container-share\"><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F6483&#038;t=Exclusive%20Shindig%21%20Qobuz%20playlist%20%2313%3A%20Magical%20Voices%20%E2%80%93%20Lost%20Little%20Girls%20In%20Music&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F6483&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F06%2FScreenshot-2024-06-27-at-14.07.51.png&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Exclusive%20Shindig%21%20Qobuz%20playlist%20%2313%3A%20Magical%20Voices%20%E2%80%93%20Lost%20Little%20Girls%20In%20Music\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F6483&#038;text=New%20post%20on%20our%20site\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Exclusive%20Shindig%21%20Qobuz%20playlist%20%2313%3A%20Magical%20Voices%20%E2%80%93%20Lost%20Little%20Girls%20In%20Music&#038;body=New%20post%20on%20our%20site:%20https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F6483\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re very excited to be media partners with the truly\u00a0unique online streaming platform and\u00a0download store\u00a0Qobuz. The 13th of our monthly bespoke playlists, which take in all manner of genres and sub-genres, scenes and beyond, then and now, is, perhaps, our most ambitious yet. Focusing on women in song we travel from 1955 right up\u00a0to 2024. 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