TUNE-UPS
Blinded by the Light
U.K. SINGER-SONGWRITER — AND SELF-CONFESSED JEFF BUCKLEY FANATIC — ANNA CALVI DISCUSSES HER FAVORITE TOOLS FOR COMPOSING THE MUSIC FOR NETFLIX’S PEAKY BLINDERS
By Amit Sharma
FOR MOST GUITAR players, composing music is a means for self-expression that often can provide the deepest and most profound insight into their hearts, minds and souls. The same can also be said of Anna Calvi’s three solo albums, though by the London-based songwriter’s own admission it was a somewhat different approach for her original score for Peaky Blinders seasons 5 and 6, released on CD and vinyl at the beginning of this year. In these creative situations, she reasons, it’s not her own story being told, but rather that of the characters depicted on screen, so her primary objective is to join the dots between what people see and what they hear.