Stan Ridgway and Pietra Wexstun
Black Tape for a Blue Girl
Artist : Stan
Ridgway and Pietra Wexstun
Album :
Blood
Date Released :
2003
Type Of
Music : classical,
goth, eerie, symmetric, slithering
Track Listing :
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1.
entrance
2.
drips
3.
baptism of jajo
4.
wound
5.
40
6.
fountain
7.
rose
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8.
Lincoln’s
head
9.
manus Christi
10. the clove bunny
11. night visit
12. weeping
13. blood suit in four movements
14. exit
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Review : This is a very interesting cd in the fact
that it was created for an art opening. Too be more exact it was made for Mark
Ryden’s “Blood: miniature paintings of sorrow and fear” exhibit in the Earl
McGrath Gallery that was held on September 18th of 2003. The music on the album is all original work
by Stan (wall of voodoo) and Pietra, the only other people that where involved
in the making of this music was Lazslo Vickers, Alivin Fike on some back up
stuff. Then Sean P. Riley helped produce it.
What does it sound like? Well that is a
little hard to describe, it opens up with some eerie background sounds and an
opera singer…and when I say eerie I am not talking about Tweekers Alice
eerie…this you can actually play when friends are over visiting because as odd
as it is, it is some how soothing and creates a world around you that is
relaxing with chimes and story lines. It is also spooky, striking, and deeply atmospheric but
lush and melodic, all at the same time.
I should probably tell you a little about
the artist that the music was made for…because it may help describe the music to
you. Mark Ryden has done art work for a lot of different mass media projects. He
did the art work for Jack off Jill’s last cd, as well as Scarling, Jeskica’s new
band. People have describe Rydens work as “bunnies carving meat, to little girls
in repose waiting for something bad to happen with a look of cool, dead reserve,
to pictures of longing where sorrow, hipster detachment, and dread all
commingle.” Mark's paintings are treasured by collectors from
Australia to
Sweden. A few of
his clients include Stephen King, Leonardo DiCaprio, Patrick Leonard, Ringo
Starr, Danny Elfman, Kirk Hammett, Paul Leary, Chris Carter, Don Was, Kidada
Jones, Bridget Fonda, Henry Selik and the famous anti-mogul Long Gone
John.
Rating : *** ½
By :
Zinthra
Web Site:
http://www.stanridgway.com
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Artist : Black
Tape for a Blue Girl
Album :
remnants of a deeper purity
Date Released :
projekt 68 (1996)
Type Of
Music : classical,
goth, easy listing, romantic-e-o
Track Listing:
1.
redefine pure faith
2.
fin de siecle
3.
with my sorrows
4.
for you will burn your wings upon the
sun
5.
wings tattered, fallen
6.
fitful
7.
remnants of a deeper purity
8.
again, to drift
9.
I have no more answers
Review : Why
don’t you own this already? Ok…well I will give you a week to buy this album,
but if I find out that you still don’t have it…I will have to send Kita after
you! Why should I buy this “great” cd you might ask me. Well I will tell you
why, because it is the perfect cd to relax too, go to sleep with, to write too,
to cry with…need I go on? I think not…but I will.
After four years of owning this album I can easily
say that it is in my top 15. It is moody, yet not so moody that you want to
throw it against the wall. It has raw emotion, and for the typical american jock
ass listener would feel very unsure about his man hood by listing to such a
master piece of divine truth. So that is why you probably never heard it in the
top 40 in 1996, because their hearts hang so heavy in this album that it scared
some away. Do not threat though, being you have been warned of its greatness,
you should be able to listen to it now in peace.
On the third track Sam forcefully states “on the
tide withdrawn she disappeared, back to the deepest sea. The shells whisper
secretly, she’s the one I’ve waited for a thousand years. I fell it in the
salted air, in the moon’s moist breath a need to recreate the worlds we once
shared.” I don’t know about you…but I think that is pretty touching. Kita would also think that it is touching if
you got it for your girl/boy friend. They would always remember you as that one
cool guy/girl that I dated (or married) that had the best taste in
music…ever…ehhh….ehh..yaa that’s what I thought. Go be a consumer…now.
Rating : ****
½
By :
Zinthra
Web Site:
http://www.blacktapeforabluegirl.com