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Skimskitta

~ Mira Calix (Artist)
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (3 Mar 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Warp
  • ASIN: B00007L6SX
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 67,614 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Warp stalwart Mira Calix has a reputation for building compelling and idiosyncratic sound collages. Skimskitta, recorded in remotest Suffolk, follows on from her successful debut LP OneOnOne, utilising the same musique concrete approach but moving her sound in a slightly different direction. Where the sonic potpourri of her first LP bristled and crackled into action with sometimes frightening alacrity,Skimskitta has a more restive, even reflective feel. The naturally meandering compositions on the album are created from a variety of sources--processed guitars, vintage synthesisers, stones being knocked together, sticks being tapped, even her own vocals (recorded low in the mix and used as a textural element). The music here still reaches peaks of percussive and melodic drama, and Calix still happily courts dissonance to create compelling contrasts, but the album overall feels surprisingly coherent and can only be described as utterly bewitching. --Paul Sullivan


CD Description

Second album by French electronic artist Chantal Passamontefollows 2000's 'One On One'. Minimalist piano figures and simple loops combine with granular textures, twitching, deconstructed beats, and haunting, ethereal voices (often provided by Passamonte herself).

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Pebble Sounds, 20 Mar 2003
Pebble sounds. Mira Calix's Skimskitta is cellophane water and rung steel, it urges melody to the surface of disquiet. It is a lullaby of severed utterances, stone murmurs, metal is a birdsong and electric basslines respire and snore. There's something of Peter Gabriel's Passion to the lingering sustain, emotional pattering of noise. 'Pearl' is almost a song, it could grace a Sonic Youth cd. It's a Zen-like album, having an aesthetic very much Japanese and echoes artists such as Cornelius and Su-Paka-Pooh. Warp-stuff increasingly attains a classicism, it is hard to isolate composition from digital cut-and-splice - this music is no longer popular in the Radio One manner (it is referred to by others, and accented) but in itself, this is Radio Three stuff. Calix is serious, how Gorecki and Arvo Part are serious, as Philip Glass and Steve Reich are serious. Calix, Aphex Twin, Metamatic, Eno, and all the electonic classicist, compose for a binary-orchestra. Digital like fingers on frets and ivories and valves, this is intelligent and effective art. The experimental era is over, now we begin to hear the deft application of sampled and manipulated sound. It is easy to be fooled, but these are the early days of crudity and failing reach. Calix touches and narrowly misses, tickles and brushes, and hairs stand on end. Goosepimple sounds.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Pebbles of Sound Intermingled, 24 April 2003
By Markus (Freemantle, Southampton) - See all my reviews
Mira Calix's second album 'Skimskitta' is a walk by the ocean, collecting pebbles of sound that she allows to intermingle on the windowsill back in her kitchen-studio. It has that 'natural' quality, same as, say, Jan Garbarek's 'Dis' - has the authenticity of source apparent in Aphex Twin's recent collaged/deconstructed piano-pieces. It nods toward ambient, but is more tuneful, reminding me of Su-Paka-Pooh's Sunny Side Garden (the more esoteric moments from that glorious album). 'Skimskitta' is a fine album, not quite fulfilling its potential, but a good listen - kickback and be transported, without the glibness of so-called Chill-Out. This is serious music, it attempts something - risking failure. Calix is an artist you should support, it'll only pay greater and greater dividends.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars DARK DARKNESS, 18 Sep 2003
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This album tends more toward alienation, so forget any preconceptions about warm lazy summer days, splashy waves, and knocking pebbles( think acid comedown possibly on humid summer daze). The first five tracks threaten to drop me into depression, like some sort of defense to put me off listening to the rest of it. The first track I wish was longer as the synth sounds are really well devised, but it cuts out suddenly with an electronic needle skip noise.

Some tracks I would quite like to use for cd mixing in between two beat driven tracks, but they're a bit too short and I get caught out.

I find it difficult to say I like this album, but it requests further listening just to hear if it's as dark and scary as I remember it!

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