Records from a rented room
Records from a rented room: there's a ghost in my music
Continuing the exploration of her old musical hideouts in Manchester, Anita Sethi considers how eerily beautiful songs can haunt us yet make us feel human
Records from a rented room: homesick blues and dreams of escape
As Anita Sethi visits her hometown of Manchester, she considers how singers have explored the tug to both leave home and return, what makes a house a home, and how music can capture the longing to belong
Records from a rented room: Astrud Gilberto mines the sadness of song, making the heart lurch
Continuing her series, Anita Sethi moves flat – and finds herself torn between Gilberto’s melancholy bossa nova and flying into the mystic with Van Morrison
Records from a rented room: 'The tragedy of Billie Holiday's life gives her songs pathos'
In the latest in a series about the vinyl collection she found abandoned in her flat, Anita Sethi explores the great jazz singer’s back catalogue
Records from a rented room: ‘Songs that feel complete reflect life’s incompletion’
In the second of Anita Sethi’s series exploring a vinyl collection discovered in her flat, Massive Attack’s Unfinished Sympathy leads to a happy ending for Schubert
Records from a rented room: 'It's like discovering new friends and soulmates'
When Anita Sethi first moved into her flat, Anita Sethi discovered the owner had left behind a turntable and a treasure trove of vinyl …
