Malka Spigel, My pet fish (Swim) CD
Malka Spigel is a Jill of all trades on this record, a feat helped no
doubt by the assorted Swim cohorts (Colin Newman and members of Lobe,
Cusp and Plastic Venus) and Scanner, but lead throughout by Spigel's
over-riding sense of, if not despair, then at least
sadness. Stylistically, the spectral extremes are marked by the
outright electronic of her Immersion project and the (ahem) balls-out
riff-hammering pop of LP-closer, and self-describing, "It's odd". At
various points between, although clustered towards the electronic end
of the scale, we get the high points of "The fishes and the shining
sea", a DM/Portishead cross-fertilisation, the harem'n'bass of
"Memory of tomorrow" where arabic pipes float over a meaty break and
"Parasites" which spreads a 60's vocal line and beginner's guitar riff
onto a thumping beat.
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