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DJ Magazine Memo's Review August 2005
(16-08-2005)
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You might say it'd be rude to refer to a songstress like Nina Walsh as a veteran. After all you should never ask a woman her age, let alone infer that she is old enough to be a veteran. Nonetheless that is exactly what she
is - in the nicest sense of the word of course! Having cut her teeth with the likes of Primal Scream, Andrew Weatherall and The Orb, lets just say she knows a song when she writes one and knows a melody when she plays one. Two qualities that come across in spades within "Memo's," an album that evokes
emotive memories of Canterbury style folk, the haunting song-writing prowess of America's country greats and the subtle electronic magic of Delia Derbyshire and The Radiophonic Workshop. A fine combination if ever there was one!
4/5 Found Sounds
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2LS - further reminders
(19-07-2004)
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.... Two separate versions of "Tiny Reminder No. 1" by C-Pij (isn't this a label and not a band?) start and end the record. The first take assembles the digital gurgles of the original track, while C-Pij add a fingerpicked acoustic guitar, organ, and assorted keyboards to create a moving little track that almost seems like latter-era Swans. The track is enhanced further on the C-Pij "vocal mix" that closes the album, as the same instrumental backing is used behind a singer who sounds a bit like Hope Sandoval...
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flak - cydonia
(19-07-2004)
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...It in fact does neither, sinking back into a more typical Orblike obsession with dub melodies and surprising solos from alien instruments, but vocalists like Nina Walsh infuse the album with a fresh sound...
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more tasty flames....
(19-07-2004)
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..."Taste Of Our Flames" is beautiful introspective gloom, moving along lugubriously in the manner of Tricky's "Broken Homes", with male/female vocal interplay reminiscent of Tricky and Martina Topley Bird on their Maxinquaye classic....
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2LS - from the double gone chapel
(19-07-2004)
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.....the addition of Nina Walsh on the beautifully worldweary "The Taste of Our Flames" adds some much needed variety......
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