On Sunday, May 10th at 7pm, Figureskater speaks with London-born, NY-based singer-songwriter Cornelia Murr, ahead of her SF performance at Rickshaw Stop on May 13th.
Cornelia Murr is tethered to no place but has designed her own sky, a spiritual canvas being continually etched into with each collection she casts. Her particular style of tender pop is the steadfast canopy spread across all context. It feels like a layered gift, blankets of truth from her lived hours.
Run to the Center as an album perfects Cornelia Murr’s already established signature style; songs with structures of unpredictable elegance that fracture conventional rules. She climbs us higher in a supreme moment, she leads us into a sudden harbor where a fresh rhythmic change awaits, she gives us an intro of bullfrog, a touch of strings, a kiss of horns, sustaining arches of synth, dabs of found object percussion and playful keyboards moving like a caterpillar staircase. All parts becoming the bedrock that jointly float her panoply of poetry forward. This is a full bloom on the summit.
From her poetic mountain, covered in delicacies of tone, she delivers us an album of surprises. With a whistling solo and vocals of demi-god allure, she frosts the cake. Her “wanting everything at the same time” has formed a real life masterpiece that will bless any little heart that listens.
