Bettina Schelker

"The Honeymoon Is Over" OUT NOW

www.foundagirl.com

Reviewed by: RK

BS is a bit of a phenomenon. World class boxer, music and sports school founder and director. And an accomplished singer/songwriter in three languages. This is her 4th release, with a preponderance of the songs in English. It’s a folk record, in terms of instrumentation, and style (primarily acoustic guitar and voice), with CHUMBAWAMBA producing and adding, at times, further layers of sound. Bettina is openly gay and a strong anti-homophobia message runs throughout this disc, but there’s passion, tenderness, compassion, and righteous anger in equal measure. Like ANI
DIFRANCO, Schelker has her own label (Foundagirl - which means the catalog numbers are, of course, FAG 001 etc!). The songwriting, and performance on this are immaculate, and a fragile beauty is underscored with an undeniable power and strength. Not whiny. Not petulant. Pure class.

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