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What Is She Doing?
CD
Marianne Nowottny
Artist: Marianne Nowottny
Title: What Is She Doing?
Time: 13 tracks, 46:00 mins
Format: CD 4-panel digipak
Label: Abaton Book Company 026
Release date: September 25th, 2007
Abaton Book Company is proud to announce the upcoming release of What Is She Doing? by Marianne Nowottny. This is the artist’s first full-length studio recording in over five years and her third album on the Abaton Book Company label.Ms. Nowottny came to the attention of New York avant garde music and art circles in 1998, at the age of sixteen, with the release of Afraid of Me, described as “one of the most astonishing debuts ever†by New York Press. She has since released CDs on Camera Obscura, Foxy Digitalis, Barl Fire and Celestial Jars.With the desire to record an album that was, in her own words, “as much Fleetwood Mac as Lil’ Kim,†Nowottny set out to construct a homemade R&B/pop CD. The resulting What Is She Doing? is packed with primitive electro beats, low budget keyboards, spacey electronics and Nowottny’s own inimitable voice. This long overdue update serves as a travelogue of exotic themes, musical styles and textures adapted by the artist during her now decade-long career.What Is She Doing? was engineered by Mark Dagley (Pothole Skinny, Hi Sheriffs of Blue, Girls) and features Ben Miller (X-Destroy All Monsters, Third Border) on saxophone.
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Tall Trees
Pantaleimon
CDR in jewel case
A beautiful and otherwordly 10 minute vignette, an exacting purification of her artform.
This CDR consists of four new tracks, recorded by the artist, with Michael Tanner (Plinth) and Nick Palmer (Directorsound). All the tracks were especially created for this project.
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Peek A Boo
CD~R
W-S Burn
This release is a one track - fifteen minute musical journey with absolutely gorgeous and heartbreaking vocals which float on an instrumental architecture of guitar and harmonium. W-S Burn suspend time, allowing the listener to be transported to that rarefied space (called by writer Donald Keller as the "still point") where pure musical vibration envelopes the listener in deep bliss. W-S Burn have released 5 collections of songs so far and have shared stages with Xiu Xiu, Faun Fables, Wooden Wand, Jana Hunter, Marissa Nadler, The Weird Weeds and many others. Their music has been described as "simultaneously stark, intense, warm, and involving" (WNYC), "hauntingly beautiful" (Metro Pulse), and "...simply the most appropriate and honest sound to capture a feeling of exile, desolation, and repeated heartbreak" (Stylus Magazine).
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All The Little Ways
Debut cd release by
Corbi Wright
Whether performed on a 1926 Knabe grand piano or a 2006 Fender Telecaster, Corbi Wright's songs shimmer with a celestial glow. Otherworldly yet warm and immediate, this music contains such seemingly contrasting elements as the mellowness of 70s pop, the starkness of American plain song, the quaint charm of ragtime and the plucky twang of country-western. Wright delivers her magic slight of hand, through subtle, sophisticated lyrics self-accompanied almost effortlessly. Her simple chord progressions and pregnant pauses act as a melodic line to create the secondary sympathetic voices that haunt this album.
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... Corbi Wright's music is utterly hushed and contemplative. Her voice swoops from a withery whisper to a raw PJ Harvey-esque emotiveness. The loose weave of her barebones, unstructured folk sits well alongside the recent likes of Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice or The Alps.
~ Aquarius Records
BACK IN STOCK!!! NTSC ONLY! DVD-R video
Marianne Nowottny, Live at Knitting Factory 10/26/2002
DV footage of soldout evening opening for Antony & the Johnsons. Mainstage performance, good sound, quiet audience.
CLASSIC NOWOTTNY!
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debut CD-R release by
Delphine Dora
Because of it's improvisation, the closest comparisons that I can find would be the recently emerged artists of the Finnish freak-folk movement... soullesseyes
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