Mira Calix Skimskitta Raritan
Jul 12, 2010 - 6 min - Uploaded by sencesorMira Calix - One On One (1999). Style sheets are disabled or not working. Dustygroove.com requires style sheets to function correctly. Brilliant track from Mira Calix. Can be found on the 'Skimskitta' (2003) album. The album is best listened to in it´s entirety, so this track is more of a sampler.
Mira Calix, real name Chantal Passamonte, is an artist signed to Warp Records who mixes her intimate vocals with jittering beats and experimental electronic textures. Having previously worked as press officer for Warp Records she quit to concentrate on producing her own material. Her first release on Warp was the 'Ilanga' 10' co-produced with Autechre. The 'Pin Skeeling' single followed in 1998 notably featuring a Boards of Canada remix. Her debut album “One on One” was released by Warp on March 6, 2000. This was followed by a cd release of her radio sessions for John Peel later that year. The 'Prickle ep' was released in 2001 featuring an Andrea Parker remix.2003 saw the release of Nunu, a limited edition cd and t-shirt designed by Catherine Haines.
The cd featured an 13 minute excerpt from a 30-minute piece created especially for the Micro Music-la Batie Festival De Geneve, 2002, later performed at the Royal Festival Hall. The track is based around the sounds of insects.Passamonte's 2nd full album, Skimskitta was released on Warp in March 2003, featuring more intricate and dark melodies than her debut.2004 saw the release of 3 Commissions, a collection of installation and art soundtracks featuring the full version of Nunu.Eyes Set Against The Sun is Mira Calix's 3rd full album. Released on 15.01.07 it continues Chantal's exploration of her own intricate electronic universe, developing and expanding the sound of her first two records.Chantal is also a member of Alexander's Annexe, an ensemble also featuring David Sheppard and Sarah Nicolls. A live recording entitled 'Push Door to Exit' was released on Warp in 2006.She is married to Sean Booth (Autechre)Electronica Electronic Experimental Idm.
UK-only Warp release from 2006, not issued in the U.S. 'Mira Calix, former record shop manager, DJ & boundary blurring songwriter presents her third album. It's beautiful & delicate, hypnotic & uplifting. It's out-there.
But it's in-here too! It features a melee of sound including strings, piano, a glockenspiel, buzzing beats, ghostly voices and a children's choir multilayered with field recordings of birds, leaves, water and snow melting.
There's even the sound of an old bamboo xylophone slowly crumbling apart. Such aural enjoyment invites the listener to conjure up personal visions of the landscapes and color that inspired this magical album. Just as the pauses between & during the songs are elegantly arranged, like oxygen allowing the music to breath and come alive, so too are the three spaces, like three silent beats, used in the title of the record, 'Eyes Set Against The Sun' Chantal Passamonte aka Mira Calix is adored by the media due to her all-encompassing involvement with the arts. From gigs in planetariums to commissions and collaborations, she composes for installations, plays, dances, circuses, operas and festivals. She's quite a girl!' 'A soul record. By a singer-songwriter.
Electronic music, but not as we know it. Its predecessor, OneOnOne, was red, but this is white. Beautiful, evocative, romantic, a 61-minute piece, or movement, with no spaces, no gaps, and lots of interesting noises conjured from unusual sources. Mira Calix says that Skimskitta, her new album, is all of the above.
Controversially, she also considers it a guitar record. Hardly any of the 21 tracks, she says, are without some element of her battered Fender Stratocaster. Not that you can pick out big riffs or anything. Nor, even, could you really say that her time playing with Radiohead has necessarily taught her how to redefine guitar music. You'll also struggle to pick out the vocals.
But they're there. Skimskitta is just Mira Calix, and just sounds like itself.' 'Like Chantal Passamonte (aka Mira Calix)'s Peel Session, this material was recorded after her exodus from Sheffield to more pastoral digs in the English countryside.
Perhaps, that's what makes her music so beguiling, that sort of every-person quality that holds a little something for everyone. Maybe, it's the spectral forces that pull her work to and from between airy expanses to percussive claustrophobia. Regardless, it can leave the listener vacillating between feelings of meditative solitude and edgy loneliness, something to which anyone can relate.' 'Mira Calix's (aka Chantal Passamonte) debut album is back on Warp in the US with two bonus tracks including a gorgeous Boards of Canada remix. From the start it was clear that this was a new take on electronic music, one that reflecting her love of strung out, avant garde guitar blazers like Spaceman 3 and My Bloody Valentine as much as any techno influence. Richly steeped in her own, digitally tampered-with vocals, it followed no particular rulebook but was happy to rip out pages from all of them.
One On One is a 16 track introduction that reveals for the first time the true breadth and variety of Chantal's vision, from the elongated, sunkissed chords of its opening to the pummeling beat crunches of 'Skin With Me' and 'Isabella'. Using a mass of sometimes contradictory elements, of savage beauty and rough grittiness, sadness and euphoria, fragrant melody and rhythmic sweat, Chantal, or maybe even the little part of her that is Mira Calix, is redefining electronic music for a new generation.' Lush IDM genius from the illustrious DJ Chantal, produced in collaboration with Disjecta.
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Totally dream-infested Warp-generation electronic tracks, distantly submerged vocal distortions and perfectly oblique atmospherics. Download convertitore da pdf a word gratis italiano. The next superstar emission from the Warp stable. 'Mira Calix follows up her cult classic 'Ilanga' with Pin Skeeling, a four track piece of singy songy techno guitar beat weirdness that defies gravity.
The release includes a remix by new label mates Boards of Canada. Some information: Mira Calix is a cool name. 'Pin Skeeling' is what happens when you're up late with friends and you get your words mixed up. Mira Calix is Chantal Passamonte, a South African Deejette who speaks Italian and collects shiny things and rare trainers. Mira Calix is currently making music for her special friends in her very cold bedroom, she misses the sunshine. The music will be put on long playing record sometime in the future.'