Questions of the nature of home and the core of identity becoming centre of these songs that linger.
The Greeks constantly rewrote their myths to explore fresh contemporary situations. Mella pushes the form to deal with a deeper psychological study. Contemporay pop almost always stays stuck in an ostenscibly simplifed loop of rationed out, flat emotions and stories without roots rather than offering anything more complex, like what French Chansong might be capable of handing.

Comparible Concept album, offers an emotional progression, and a study of an evolving chain of events where the narrative is about the interior drama and the associative progression of emotions… (Float)
I only wish opera could be this fun, this cathartic.

http://www.ovalhouse.com/whatson/detail/medea-electronica

Tickets £15, Concessions £10

Showing at the Oval Theatre, London til Saturflday 10th February then on National tour.