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Inspired by her many trips to the American Deep South, this music
also has deeply personal connotations, going right back to Joanna's
childhood and a father who was a lay preacher in an Evangelical
church.
After a close musical partnership with Andy Sheppard for many years,
this is their first long-awaited duo recording. We hear both the
purity of the acoustic duo as well as the subtle use of multi-tracking
and samples. The use of the original 1927 recording of William and
Versey Smith's song Everybody Help the Boys Come Home creates a
fantastic groove - which also inflects the tune with the atmospheric
static of early recordings. When this tune re-appears as a remix
by a different producer, the gravity of the lyrics is brought home
by a far darker treatment with layers of drums, disturbing incoherent
vocal samples and dissonant layers of electronics.
Produced by Joanna MacGregor, with co-producers Seb Rochford (drummer,
composer and bandleader of Mercury Prize nominees Polar Bear), Matthew
Fairclough (sound artist and Joanna's engineer of many years), Will
Gregory (Goldfrapp) and Andy Sheppard.
REVIEWS
[The Guardian, May 1, 2006]
[The Independent on Sunday, May 7, 2006]
[Time Out, May 11-17, 2006]
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