It’s a mixture of poetry and storytelling that turns Ella Ronen’s art into a kind of ceremony. The Zurich musician creates delicately arranged folk-pop with depth, sometimes with the will to deal with dark themes in an unconventional way. This is the case on her fourth studio album, “The Girl With No Skin”, which was released this year and once again proves Ronen to be a stylistically confident songwriter and singer with an unmistakable timbre. While she sings of a poet who became violent towards her in the song “Truth”, her song “I just want to see you” is about the state of a deep love affair that is about to end. With an extraordinary feel for the right words and melodies, for the interpersonal and the meaning between the lines, the Doctor of Literature traces worlds of thought that seem as intimate as they are universal. Her audiences have appreciated this for years, which is evident time and again at Ronen’s concerts.