User Reviews

A highly unusual video made by Gerard de Thame with a magnificent sepia-colored cinematography by Jeff Darling, "Tanita Tikaram: Twist in My Sobriety" is worthy mostly because of its music, melody, and mysterious lyrics. Despite some hauntingly beautiful images which revolves around poverty, children playing and old folks driving through a desert place (a Bolivian village), it's the music that speaks volumes - more artful minds will find ways to form a connection in between the lyrics, the sounds and the imagery. To me, they both carry a deep sense of mystery, an enigma that possibly requires subsequent views so you can form a whole from both arts: the visual and the sonorous. In a way, it's an interesting way to sell a song...to make it more intriguing, appealing and something that makes you keep coming back even if it's just to hear those incredible arrangements, that clarinet and Tanita's angelical voice. 8/10

...is the first reaction of this special video , great voice, inspired arrangement and the flavor of mystery defining it. A song so unique than after its end, you feel it again and again. Bolivian images of poverty, impressive voice - seeming use a sort of incantation and something out of any description. A great song, the inspired for it video as a form of frame.

Obvious, it is more than a good video or inspired song. After three decades, it remains a seductive provocation. Not for discover its sense , because the lyrics are only part of a large fresco about life, old traditions, profound worlds, poor - rich people but for precise beauty of it. Short, a great provocation.