One to watch: Odetta Hartman

The American musician combines vintage vocals with field recordings and home-grown beats to compelling effectTemporal contradiction defines Odetta Hartman’s sound. Raised in New York’s East Village by liberal parents who exposed her to experimental theatre, modern dance, punk and hip-hop, she would then spend her holidays in West Virginia, where her mother grew up. “That was my Appalachian infusion,” she told Q magazine. “There’s a lot of dark history down the