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ARTiST....: niobe
TiTLE.....: white hats
LABEL.....: Tomlab
GENRE.....: indie
SOURCE....: cdda
QUALiTY...: VBR / joint-stereo
SiZE......: 45,0 MB
REL.DATE..: 05-11-2006
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01] give all to love 03:30
02] well and wise 04:06
03] surround your hover 02:31
04] white hats 03:43
05] touch this flower 01:31
06] phosphorous 02:36
07] drei zinnen 02:34
08] up hill and down dale 04:00
09] shirocco and mistral 04:07
10] in the sun 02:16
11] none but one 04:39
12] the hills 02:05
13] cool alpine 02:02
TOTAL TiME : 39:40 min
Niobe has shaped White Hats with a great variety
of sound colorings and associations that
illustrate her amazing ease of travelling through
the last 8 decades of songwriting and chanson
highlights. Niobe's songs are starting to breathe
through the uniqueness of her voice that transmits
all her emotional variety we already had
discovered by surprise in her early cut-up work
(even through the thickest walls of sound).
The title track 'White Hats', an alpine sort of
Country-Lullaby where Niobe sings from the
loneliness in a foggy valley where you can see the
white snow on the mountain tops, just before total
darkness is covering it all, corresponds perfectly
to her real Soul Hit "Give All To Love" and might
be the perfect companion for her first single
release.
Nobody would have suggested at the beginning of
her work as a sound artist that Niobe is going to
write songs such as "Cool Alpine", a song that
most certainly would transport Phil Spector back
into the mood of the Disco-Funk era. Niobe is
managing this challenge with ease but she doesn't
actually want to flirt with the disco ball and
leaves the song after 2 minutes of pure pop-bliss.
Instead she is focusing on the big Pop-panorama on
White Hats: Ambient-Bossa-Nova ("Surround the
Hover") and Hip Hop with a Gospel touch ("Up Hill
And Down Dale") are sitting together in the
mountain sun on top of the White Hats (which can
be seen on the cover artwork)
On "White Hats" Niobe's passionate voice is
wandering between many worlds, marching through
pittoresque landscapes, and releasing its amazing
powers over cristalline guitars. She uses the
feelings from the sight of the red and blue skies
of a day in the mountains as determinating colors
in her music. There is a red disturbing side and a
blue soothing side of Niobe's voice and both
intertwined they can guide the lost folks out of
the sudden darkness in the mountains into the
secure refuge. Very different to her previous
albums, the new songs are always very optimistic.
The experience she gained from the vocal
contributions to the house tracks for Mouse on
Mars last record "Radical Connector" can be
clearly discerned on this record.
Buy me if you love me :)