From time to time, a young girl with a frail body and a slim voice turn out to be the instruments of vast breath and prodigious power. Kyrie Kristmanson is one of them: at the age of twenty she has a unique way of provoking incredible collisions between the Folk of North America and the music of medieval times, pop melodies and cutting-edge jazz, and between everyday songs and the laboratory where great musical revolutions are concocted. Origin of Stars, her first album for the No Format! label, allows us to hear not only a melodic writing-style close to that of her great predecessors but, at the same time, an audacity of form that brings the paths taken by the sources, practices and aesthetics of music to interweave. The result sounds something like an acoustic meeting between Joni Mitchell and Björk…