CQD = DANGER YOU SEEK PRE MORSE CODE DISTRESS SIGNAL
"it takes a desert to need someone like you "
close, cold and distance: In the first three albums of Swedish singer Stina Nordenstam could follow in the nineties, a development that culminated in an album as a dark block alone in floor stands. The systematic reduction of the music on the dark emotional core can be compared only with the later works of such renowned Terer to some heavyweights like Scott Walker and David Sylvian (without falling into the existing tendency to sometimes pretentious art and crafts).
It began at the matter quite harmless: as a victory in a talent contest received Stina Nordenstam possible, 1991 record their debut album. On the resulting "Memories of a Color" their songs are still wrapped in arrangements that come within an inch sometimes dangerously close to adult orientated jazz-pop. A mostly likely only nice plate on which, however, the best songs already gleaming through shallows, hereafter should more and more into the foreground.
For already 3 years later, the resulting album, "And She Closed Her Eyes" can appear more than the previous first finger exercise. The instrumentation for their strange volume loose but incredibly concise voice around is reduced significantly. Even the seemingly easily accessible songs such as the Mini-Hit "Little Star" she transformed by the use of choral singing and trumpet sounds echoed in cooler sound spaces. Titles such as "Crime" and "Murder in Maryland Park" have not only in the fragmentary texts indicate dark scenarios, also through the melodies tries to capture the tragic dimension of the events. But Stina's voice and her sense of discount arrangements make it funny enough, even in these highly emotional moments to the true distance, like a glass wall to prevent any too-easy identification.
With the 96 album "Dynamite" she then reached the extreme outposts of chilly abstraction. The songs act as gutted, are built mostly for vocals and the jangling remains of their guitar around. Occasionally mix to a distance metal-slow beats and strings as Arctic in a TV documentary about a failed Arctic expedition. Each sound element seems stuck in its own isolated space. A damp, gray light of unfavorable illuminated world arises in the mind's eye - "like the morning shot through a diving bell" . Stina and to sing with irritatingly calm voice of pathological dependency and violent revenge fantasies. Also that of her own and rarely staged in the music video shown on television "This Time John" underlines the harsh, yet a disturbed form of beauty and melancholy tone of the record sought. The darkness that was looking back from the beginning after all, retains the upper hand here, however, and it seems hard to imagine how it could go after all.
But of course it went: After
idiosyncratic cover album "People Are Strange" (! To which, inter alia, "Purple Rain" and Rod Stewart's "Sailing" () re-interpreted) and the even more with programmed beats working for "This Is Stina Nodenstam" In 2004 she released her last, unfortunately, so far Album, "The World Is Saved," which manages the sinister undertones in carefully ausarrangierten and catchy songs like "Get On With Your Live" make always noticeable. All of the album title is nothing contradictory here safely.
"Even when you are falling you're turning out the light /
Strange and lovely facts for us who can not sleep at night"
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