Release : Shrift - Lost In A Moment
Artist : Shrift
Album : Lost In A Moment
Genre : Lo-Fi
Source : CDDA
Label : Six Degrees Records
URL : www.sixdegreesrecords.com
Date : 02/07/2006
Quality : VBRkbps 44,1 kHz Joint-Stereo
Tracks : 01
Time : 49:29 min
Size : 69,7 MB
Lost In A Moment
01 Shrift - Lost In A Moment
02 Shrift - Sereia
03 Shrift - As Far As I Can See
04 Shrift - Snow Samba
05 Shrift - Floating City
06 Shrift - Yes I Love You
07 Shrift - To The Floor
08 Shrift - Hum
09 Shrift - Once Upon A Dream
10 Shrift - Blue
11 Shrift - Lost In Portuguese
Shrift-Lost_in_A_Moment-Advance-2005-uF was in single tracks, as you can hear
in our release the album is gapless, therefore we bring you a perfect rip of
the album, made from the retail-cd.
The aptly titled Lost in a Moment is Shrift's first album, but it's hardly
a debut for the group's two members, singer/songwriter Nina Miranda and
multi-texturalist/producer Dennis Wheatley. Miranda is a charter member of
the celebrated British group Smoke City, which has scored European hits
with its unique blend of bossa nova, trip hop, jazz, reggae and funk.
Miranda has lent her unique voice and words to projects by such world
music luminaries as Bebel Gilberto, Nitin Sawhney, Daniel Jobim, Jah
Wobble and Da Lata. She is equally comfortable singing in English,
Portuguese or French, and she shifts between those languages several times
during the course of Lost in a Moment.
Miranda was introduced to her musical partner Dennis Wheatley shortly
after completing the second Smoke City album. Wheatley is best known for
his work with Atlas, a British electro band with a history of taking
existing elements (Brazilian singers, string quartets, Randy Newman's
"Baltimore") and whipping them up into delectably, danceably new
ethno-electro mixtures. Miranda was familiar with his work under the Atlas
moniker and was drawn in by what she calls the "depth of atmosphere and
quality of sound." She found his work "cinematic and otherworldly," and in
short order the two were building songs together.
The mood on Lost in a Moment is, as the albumÆs title suggests, generally
dreamy and soft, almost mystical at times, but with a worldly and modern
edge. However, the project has plenty of upbeat, funky moments as well.
Consider "To the Floor" a song that places MirandaÆs cool and carefree
vocals atop WheatleyÆs funky breakbeats, big band and orchestral sounds,
and handclaps before lapsing into a dubwise section that interweaves
multiple vocal tracks and instrumental drama before ending with an
impressionistic wash of aural colors.
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