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She recorded in New York City at Echo Canyon and The Magic Shop, and again enlisted Steve Shelley, Lee Ranaldo, and Tim Foljahn, with added bass playing and arranging courtesy of Jeremy Wilms, guitar and voice of Smokey Hormel (Beck, Tom Waits, Smokey and Miho), and her first collaboration with the Soldier String Quartet (who have provided for luminaries ranging from John Cale to Guided by Voices), giving things a nouvelle vague flavor, recalling pre-electronic German music or Nordic pop, all tied together with some good old clanging New York experimentation. Soaked in sweet melancholy, "King Size" and "Submission" (equal parts Gainsbourg and the VU), should become classic cuts, as should conceptual experiments such as the claustrophobic "German Heart" (imagine Neubauten fronted by Brigitte Fontaine), which stretches itself into a sharp lamento. Other surprises await in "Dream Room," with its angelic girlie choir drowned in a dark undersea cave, and "Off Screen," which could've been culled from an unfilmed Truffaut screenplay. Rosenvinge's lyrics deliver intelligent confessions with the starkness of Marguerite Duras -- both sweet and sour, ironic, elegant, meticulous, brittle and inspired. They seem to come from a personal, mysterious world of concise romanticism peopled with kindred spirits such as Francoise Hardy, Stina Nordenstam and Nico. -tonevendor.com There are albums which take quite a few spins in order to unveil their charms and there are some which drill themselves in your head straight away and there are those albums which sprinkle greatness in you ear drums but take only a second listening for you to realize its full potential. ChristinaÆs Second Album for æSmells Like RecordsÆ follows this route. Like Juana Molina, Rosenvinge has a very organic way of melding her instruments together so that a wall of sound is created. Take the track æDream RoomÆ; a drum in the distance looms near, then the violins and cellos literally stick to this drum sound, suddenly a guitar is being lightly plucked. Add this with RosenvingeÆs heavenly tones and youÆve got some excellent songs. It doesnÆt stop there though, for æForeign LandÆ has its experimental tracks as well. I mean æLost in dÆ has a load of instruments all playing the aforementioned note. But out of the outward tracks its the least. That has to go to æGerman HeartÆ a brilliantly shuffle beat ridden song that becomes suffocatingly intense as it progresses. This proves that Rosenvinge is not scared to move into different territories, yet a pop sensibility is retained thoroughout the course of this album. I do have to add though that all these ideas probably wouldnÆt be possible if the talents of Sonic YouthÆs Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley (who play guitar and percussion respectively) werenÆt there. Now its up to you to check out this imaginative album and hopefully through word of mouth Rosenvinge will get her 15 minutes (or maybe more) of fame. -bbc.co.uk Bio: Madrid-born, Danish-descended singer Christina Rosenvinge owns one of the more singular careers in pop music. She spent the 1980s as a bona fide star in the Latin-speaking world, selling out stadiums and a boatload of records as half of the duo Alex Y Christina. By the early 90s, weary of the endless media maelstrom, increasingly disillusioned by the stifling creative confines of the mass market, and newly inspired by the more personal, idiosyncratic work of songwriters such as Leonard Cohen, she began to write, with an increasing deftness and dedication, songs in her own voice, and closer to her heart. Eventually splitting with Alex, she recorded a trio of albums for WEA Latin America, each more spohisticated than its predecessor, exploring a wide range of musical motifs and lyrical themes. Sessions for the last of the three, 1996's Cerrado, took place at Echo Canyon, Sonic Youth's just-completed Manhattan studios, with SY guitarist Lee Ranaldo producing and members of Two Dollar Guitar providing backing. Her next visit to New York found her contributing to Two Dollar Guitar's 1999 album Weak Beats and Lame-ass Rhymes. By now smitten with the city and the possibility of working with a clean artistic slate, she subsequently moved there, and began performing locally with Two Dollar Guitar as her backing group. Work began on Frozen Pool the following year -- her first SLR release would also be her first US and English-language release, and go on to garner both critical accolades and an entirely new, hard-earned fanbase, built upon her own unique talents. Since then she has toured the US and Europe, supported artists such as Elliott Smith and Stereolab, and played festivals including South By Southwest, CMJ Music Marathon, and All Tomorrow's Parties. Christina is currently back in Spain preparing for the release of her latest project, a book-and-record set, songs for which were recorded over the past year, again at Echo Canyon and featuring members of Sonic Youth and Two Dollar Guitar. -smellslikerecords.com Enjoy! ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ Track Listing: ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ No. Time Track Title ~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 01. 04:41 Off Screen 02. 03:40 36 03. 04:04 King Size 04. 05:58 Dream Room 05. 05:28 Submission 06. 05:15 Lost in D 07. 03:54 German Heart 08. 03:09 As the Stranger Talks Total time: 36:09 .. Total Size: 48,0MB ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄