Sometimes it is that combination of ingredients to rather good effect that is more than interesting to listen to, and at times provocative and yet a little too insular at times. At times the petulant boyfriend discovers he has to do the dishes. And then it soars into special territory. Idiosyncratically diplomatic if rhythmically magic. The pleading voice like a very adolescent Waters whining great poetry.

Have a listen to him during his creative ascendancy with the Diamond Dogs Sweet Thing Candidate performance (no visual, good sound) – worth a listen.

Das FLÜFF

Would You Die for Me?

First CD – available here

A three piece with three extreme and inventive artists create a shocking resonance rich with dangerous landscapes tarred by an atomic blonde brush of evolved glam, a skilled pen for both an adventurous lyric and perfect electric harmonies; a flawless cabaret, colour and syllable perfection, perhaps; both movement and voice, a flawless occupation of genre ideals.

Wearing the disguise of a remorseless disregard for convention, tarnished by shocking abandon. Listen unprepared for exposed emotional skeletons quaking with European sensibility. Here for once, is something genuinely new.

It is simply a voice, a guitar and a multifarious keyboard with both heavy agenda and bad-pussycat written all over its python like assault on your sensibilities. All those self-limiting secrets are hidden away as the transference of shock leaves its marks on your skin.

This is an album of the broken. An opus to grief stricken rage – pleading at the margins of what’s left. Dawn Lintern’s powerful voice is pitch perfect revealing nearly too much in a close to the bone album. The final song, Please surrounds you helpless in its grasp. Expressive and precise.

five star * * * * originality and performance

Classic and very original New Zealand blues band The Windy City Strugglers have been playing on and off for nearly 30 years. Led by Wellington Bluesman Bill Lake and Auckland Blues legend Rick Bryant, they have found popularity in Europe and New Zealand.

The Windy City Strugglers
Bluer Than You’ll Ever Be
written by Rick Bryant

Update – gallery

Marina Celeste at the Bowery
26th November 2011

Bogdan Terry Pachod Guitar
Frédéric Vast percussion

Song: Samba Saravah, (Vinicius de Moraes/ Baden Powel)

(best watched in HD)

Elaine Boiled by *Dystoper on deviantART

Probably the best use of Flash ever – and NSW – partly due to the loud intensity of music (do not play it quietly!)

http://www.radiosoulwax.com/

Singer songwriter Jordan Reyne describes her art as “industrial-tinged celtic folk, from the edges of the earth” and she has been touring Europe for the past six years. She started her career in New Zealand where she was nominated for the New Zealand Music Awards three times, and has worked on projects including Lord of the Rings and Cafe del Mar. Her performances have included the NZ International Festival of the Arts, Big Day Out and Glastonbury.

Combining celtic themes with industrial machines and providing her own backing vocals live using an echo loop her voice is dark and powerful. Her playing and singing live is an experience of unrestrained artistic delight with an enigmatic tension. In other words, one gutsy, quality voice that works in a complex soundscape.

Here she is with her song Sister Falling, filmed at The Bowery November 2011.

Jordan has created many excellent videos you can find on her youtube channel jordanreyne – and her website http://jordanreyne.com. She records under her own label Bloodthirsty Celtic Rock Musician.

“A thoroughly unique work of art from start to finish. Whether by hook or crook, you MUST own this album. RATING – 5 / 5″. Channel 4 (UK)

“Fascinating and intense…. here is something worth celebrating, a song writer who didn’t come down in the last shower of record company advances and marketing hype” The Dominion Post (Wellington, New Zealand)

See also reviews here.

Christine Webster Transitions

Exhibition at the The Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK.