Gwyneth Herbert - Clangers and Mash

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 32:51
Size: 75,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:07)  1. Perfect Fit (Radio Edit)
(4:38)  2. My Mini & Me (Polar Bear Remix)
(2:53)  3. So Worn Out (In the Bedroom)
(3:49)  4. Narrow Man (Girl After Shower Remix)
(3:18)  5. Perfect Fit (Mr Solo & The Voluntary Butler Scheme Remix)
(3:29)  6. Petite Cacahuete
(4:43)  7. So Worn Out (Temper D Remix)
(3:15)  8. Perfect Fit (Original Version)
(3:36)  9. Midnight Oil (A Cappella Version)

Last year's All the Ghosts album was a coming-of-age for Gwyneth Herbert, the autobiographical Hackney singer-songwriter who had sidestepped being marketed as a saleable jazz chanteu se to explore her own poetry, folk-song, variations on Hackney pirate-radio beats, and dark Tom Waitsian whimsy, among many things. This mini-album (occasioned by Herbert's forthcoming single, Perfect Fit) invites producer and engineer Robert Harder, pre-Ziggy Bowie fan Mr Solo, west country electronicists Girl After Shower, and Polar Bear's Seb Rochford to remix several All the Ghosts songs – which make it a fascinating set of variations on the familiar for Herbert regulars, or an appealing introduction for jazz-averse newcomers. Rochford's transformation of Herbert's bluesy roadsong My Mini and Me draws the singer's voice into a whirlpool of electronic hummings and thundering tom-tom patterns, Girl After Shower strips down the lyrical My Narrow Man to its title phrase amid squeezed electronic sounds and backwards-tape noises, Mr Solo's version of Perfect Fit turns it into a Bowie song. For all these radical transformations, though, Herbert's unfussy soulfulness and personal vision always glow through. ~ John Fordham  http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/dec/16/gwyneth-herbert-clangers-mash-review

Clangers and Mash

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