HIATUS AND SHURA - 'RIVER' [FORTUNE'S FOOL, 2011]

"Meet me in the dust cloud... Meet me in the white light."

 

Hiatus: Shura and I both share an affection for music that mixes melancholic harmonies with moody basslines, and we’re both rigorous self-editors, constantly going back and trimming stuff down to its bare essentials.

I love the way Shura uses her voice like an instrument; layering and looping it in exactly the way I would if I was sampling her off a record.

For the most part she’ll come to me with vocals and a guitar line, and I’ll build the track up around that; occasionally she’s taken an old tune of mine and added lyrics...

[from an interview]

JOANNA NEWSOM ('EMILY') - PURE SOUL SISTER MONOLOGUE

It's a vivid and beautiful painting that you can walk into; a magic window into another world that I'd be happy to get lost in, and never come back...

'Emily', a 12-minute ode to her younger sister. It seems to be about the almost sacred bond between the two sisters, and is filled with coded allusions to their childhood world.

You taught me the names of the stars overhead

That I wrote down in my ledger

Though all I knew of that rote universe

Were those Pleiades loosed in December...

Shared secrets and experiences are suggested but never spelt out. Heartbreak is alluded to, and the drift into lovesickness.

You came and laid a cold compress on the mess I'm in

Threw the window wide and cried, amen, amen, amen

I can't help but think of the Brontes here

as the child sisters gaze out their window at 'mountains kneeling, felten and grey...

In the course of this one song, the music and lyrics shift from reflective to intense to almost druggily drowsy. It is Newsom's way with words that really startles, the oddness and richness of her imagery, which is closer to the nature poetry and any musical contemporary...

POLIÇA - 'DARK STAR'

Merr nje ritem down-beat te viteve '80, kampjono nje ze femeror, regjistro dhe le neper blog komente si: alt-indie, dark-female-voice, drum-game, mid-80's sound etj etj...
Ose mund ta interpretojme ndryshe: Poliça eshte nje grup i fshehur qe ka nxjerre kete gjurme pseudo-indie dhe qe duam apo s'duam ne, pelqehet shume nga komunitetet ne rrjet! Kete shohim ne nga jashte te pakten. Dhe tani qe e degjuam edhe ne te FV, kane te drejte ta luajne track-un vazhdimisht neper webfaqe 'underground'.

Poliça me 'Dark Star' ia arrijne plotesisht ketij qellimi. Dhe ne kenaqim veshet me muzike te re.
Ose... relativisht te re!