Recommend me: Weird-Voiced Female Singers

Anne Briggs

sidsel endresen - seek her albums with humcrush & helge stein which are bizarre smoky abstract vocalese - usually (on other albums) she's working a more conservative beth gibbons/ diana krall thing but she weirds it up a treat when she wants to.

Just came here to post about the new Sidsel Endresen and Stian Westerhus album, Didymoi Dreams. Definitely on the vocalese/extended technique side of things, but still very human and inviting. It's on Spotify.

also if you don't know les rita mitsouko you need to check them for catherine ringer's spine tinglingly screechy punk-chansonrie. i'd recommend "bestov" & "marc & robert" .

Never really thought of Catherine Ringer in this connection, most of the time she's not far from a typical post-punk singer (would you say David Byrne is a weird-voiced male singer?). But then with a song like Le Petit Train I see where you're coming from.

recent Marianne Faithful, at least based on that Metallica song

Marianne Faithfull has released seven albums and collaborated with Daniel Lanois, Jon Brion, Hal Willner, Blur and Damon Albarn separately, Beck, Billy Corgan, Etienne Daho, Pulp and Jarvis Cocker (repeatedly) separately, Nick Cave (repeatedly) and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds separately, PJ Harvey, Cat Power, the McGarrigle sisters, Keith Richards, Antony, Rufus, Teddy Thompson and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since that "recent" Metallica song.

This thread is really just hammering home the concept that there is such a much narrower range for what is considered a "normal" female voice.

This is a request-for-recommendations thread, not a thinly conceiled manifesto.

Yma Sumac OWNS

rebecca black

Yoko kinda maybe owns this thread. First Plastic Ono Band album is basically "What if the Beatles survived into the 70s and made a krautrock album?"

Scout Niblett, maybe?

Minnie Riperton
Melanie Safka
Mae Questel

Yolandi Visser

Catherine Jauniaux from Aksak Maboul (her solo record from the early 80s is great)
Anna Nacher from Atman/Magic Carpathians

fell like posting some Ewa Demarczyk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm2RusSu-IY

goosebumps. this performance is amazing beyond words.

Robin Holcomb

Shelley Hirsch

urszula dudziak
flora purim

her voice isn't weird so much as it is a powerful deep bellow
one to watch for sure
https://circuitdesyeux.bandcamp.com/