“Memories always change,” says Anglo-Italian singer-songwriter Anna Calvi of the inspiration behind her second album, One Breath. “The fact that they fade is sad but healing, and something I wanted to explore.” Swiss filmmaker Karim Huu Do’s lyrical short unpicks Calvi’s beginnings as a musician as she visits the wine-soaked haunts and rural edgelands of Clermont-Ferrand during her recent spate of concerts in France. “I enjoy touring, taking my guitar around and playing to people every night,” says Calvi on the eve of a European jaunt that starts with a Dublin show on February 1. “It feels like a trade, which I like.” The ferocious intensity of the London-born singer’s voice and guitar and the boldness of her Spanish matador-inspired stage style has attracted the attention of Gucci’s Frida Giannini, who designed outfits for her 2011 American tour, and Karl Lagerfeld, who photographed her for Maison Michel’s fall/winter campaign in the same year. Her role of rock pin-up and fashion muse contrasts with her decidedly more introspective everyday persona. “Music gives me a space in which I can be more courageous,” she says of the discrepancy. “There are not that many places in life where you can find a similar kind of strength and fearlessness.” 

Anna Calvi's One Breath is available now on Domino.