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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Melanie de Biasio

October 15, 2019
9 Rue Condorcet, 21000 Dijon, France

If Cassandra Wilson’s name foretold her music, she might be Melanie de Biasio. With her dusky contralto, tubercular-gamine looks, and album titles like A Stomach is Burning, No Deal, and Blackened Cities (though Troy is not specifically mentioned), this Belgian singer makes angst disturbingly sexy. —E.E.