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Kaleah: From the shadows
Beautiful female vocals is creating a floating
atmosphere .Her voice really reaches
for the high peaks and make the hair on
your body stretch out to catch the aural
winds. The voice is the true messenger on this
album, everything else is being forgotten
in the joy and appreciation of an angelic voice.
Taken from Giljotin issue #27 (Norwegian text):
Taken from Giljotin issue #26 (Norwegian text):
Wolf Krakowski:Unbounded
Wolf Krakowski is back after the wonderful "Transmigration"
album that I review in Giljotin,
issue #26, Nr.3 1999. This album is less jiddisch
"ballads". He seeks new territory. It's more
blues country, track 3 even has some slide guitar.
I must admit, this is better than much you ever will
hear in this style of music. He has a wonderfully
honest voice, revealing the most inner feelings of a
human being. With the female backing vocals it
sometimes sounds like Leonard Cohen. Krakowski
has done it again, dared being damned honest,
and done what he wanted the most, to record something
in the heat of the moment, not thinking of any
particular kind of style, because this album is miles from
his "Transmigration" album.
Kurvouria: Audiobalm
Rec.label:Bluewilk.
I got a selection of six strong songs from their
album "Audiobalm".
Sexy smokeful vocals, like a good wine with a
mild and aromatic touch of tobacco.
Wonderful vocals, they choose to label it blues
vocals themselves but I feel that the
music gives me much more than the ordinary bluesy
feeling, it has the intensity of
Janis Joplin combined with good traditional jazz
vocals like Ella Fitzgerald or Billie Holiday.
It's laidback music that creates good vibes.
The vocals is combined with simple electro arrangements.
Night music, or lullabies before you go to bed
is probably a nice and accurate description of what
I felt when I heard the music.
Sing along and enjoy .....
email:blumlath@aol.com
http://www.audiobalm.com
Lahannya: Drowning-Ep
Kabuki
A fine and balanced recording with more than straight
rock, it's both
melodic and undefinably seeking towards the ethnic
dimensions.
The finest moments come close to what I loved
about Throwing Muses,
the vocals and relaxed instrumentation.
" I can't find the answer...." to use a phrase
from track three "Losing yourself", to
describe and categorize this album.
Lahannya is the guide and owner of a angelic
voice that makes this ep a very
recommendable experience.
It couldn't be said that they are experimental,
but they creates some very fine moments.
Klaus Lang:Die ûberwinterung der molluksen klangforum Wien
Very lo-fi ambience. A wide range of instruments
plays along on this recording and
makes it very interesting. You could almost touch
the feeling of curiosity, it's
"frightening" silence suddenly broken by a lonely
instrument. It is as if you are
trying to find your way out of the mist. You
are lost and stuck in a twilight zone,
a chronical liminality where you a are a non-person,
between being somebody
and becoming somebody else. Four intelligently
tracks put together makes this
record something really worth remembering...
Taken from Giljotin issue #26 (Norwegian text):
Riley Lee: Empty sky
Tall Poppies Records
The third out of a possible
6 volume serie of Japanese meditation music
for Shakuhachi (Japanes flute). A very beautiful
atmosphere is being created
by Lee's extra ordinary flute play. You body
is floating away, oh this is
wonderful music for getting in touch with your
inner self. The flute play is intense,
sometimes frightening close to crossing the edge
of sanity, this is a true masters work.
The rhytms of the flute sometimes gives you surprises
you didn't expect, just sit down
get comfortable and be surprised.
Joost Hegle
Email:tallpoppies@moreinfo.com.au
Lift: September Ep-cd
Orangestar Records
Three woman that really rocks. Molly Bancroft
has a pure and very delicious voice.
It's good to hear an album with real guitar rock
again, no synth and more than just fake drum,
you have actual drums on this album. Five very
strong tracks about difficulties in human relationships
and the meaning of life in general, as for instance
in track four "I'm feeling trapped inside these walls...
maybe I'll drive into the mountain or walk along
the sea..".
The proper word I am searching for to describe
this album is "cool". The Ep deserves several repetitions,
just press the repeat button
email:lift@mindspring.com
http://www.orangestar.com/lift
Little Miss Conception: The plate glass fallen sky-Ep
A sickly voice, lost of all blood, is catching
you and guiding you to the downward spiral.
This is very deep and dark music on the edge
of sanity. They are truely unique in their sound.
It certainly deserves more than one listening
because after a while you catch up musical details, probably because you
mood have changed. This Ep keeps fascinating me in a unexplainable way.
Have they been throwing a magical music spell on me? It's probably the
sound of fear, darkness and mystery that appeal to me?
http://www.littlemissconception.com
