★★★★★
The Sicilian singer and songwriter Carmen Consoli has called herself "una piccola cantantessa"--a little girl singer--but now that she's 35, the self-deprecating diminutive hardly fits anymore. Then again, maybe it never did. Since she released her debut album, Dueparole, in 1996, Consoli has been a formidable artist with big ideas and ambitions, and the talent to realize them...
- www.popmatters.com
2010-08-24
★★★★★
An ancient Greek amphitheater, an active volcano, the Mediterranean Sea, and an orchestra sound like a pretty amazing setting for a live album. These were in fact the arrangements for Carmen Consoli, whose L'Anfiteatroelabambinaimpertinente was recorded during two shows at the Teatro Greco in Taormina, Sicily, in July 2001...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
On 2002's L'Eccezione, Carmen Consoli showed herself to be a mature, insightful writer capable of creating both soft, pensive songs and louder, more aggressive ones while always retaining the blend of introspection and impertinence that she's displayed since her 1996 debut. Here, on Eva Contro Eva, the contemplation remains, but this time her guitars are solely acoustic and her thoughts are directed outward towards contemporary society...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
The second full-length album by Italian singer Carmen Consoli, Confusa e Felice, released when she was 23, shows the development of the young artist as she was just beginning to come into her own. Consoli wrote all 12 tracks, and while musically they don't stray much from the late-'90s adult alternative path (there is none of the jazz or blues influences that accent her later work), one can sense that lyrically she, both consciously and unconsciously, is really searching to find herself...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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