On the title track of her new album, "Me and Armini," Emiliana Torrini takes the concept of drinking "spirits" to a whole new level.
"I was introducing (songwriting partner) Dan (Carey) to my favorite whiskey, and I made a story that this woman who'd stalked someone called Armini died and went into my whiskey and came into my body and stalked him through a song," she says.
Torrini then went on to sober up and forget all about the song — which deviates from the album's subdued folk flavor by introducing a reggae influence — until Carey reminded her of it some weeks later. If all this sounds a little unconventional, well, welcome to Torrini's world.