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Moshe · 12.29.2006, 01:51 AM

http://mog.com/Treppenwitz/blog_post/34837

Just got a copy of Christina Rosenvinge’s upcoming release in my mailbox. She has the same publicist in North America as Under Byen, and it’s one of those cases where an unsolicited album hits the spot. I was unaware of her prior to this, but she apparently has toured with Stereolab and Elliott Smith. Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo plays guitar and produced the album. Like Stina Nordenstam, she has the nearly too delicate little girl vocal style which glides over off-center compositions—much like the “sukkersmuds” sound that I keep hearing in Scandinavian music: sweet and gritty. Rosenvinge is of Danish heritage, though she was born in Spain. She must have sukkersmuds in her blood.
There seems to be something about these cross-cultural hybrids that make for fascinating music. They are especially interesting to me when they are not trying to make a fusion of styles, but trying to make something new. I’m thinking of the Italian brothers and Japanese singer in the NYC band Blonde Redhead, or elodieO, another New Yorker who sings in English and her native French. Stereolab too, for that matter.

12.29.2006, 01:51 AM	#10
Moshe Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,934	http://mog.com/Treppenwitz/blog_post/34837 Just got a copy of Christina Rosenvinge’s upcoming release in my mailbox. She has the same publicist in North America as Under Byen, and it’s one of those cases where an unsolicited album hits the spot. I was unaware of her prior to this, but she apparently has toured with Stereolab and Elliott Smith. Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo plays guitar and produced the album. Like Stina Nordenstam, she has the nearly too delicate little girl vocal style which glides over off-center compositions—much like the “sukkersmuds” sound that I keep hearing in Scandinavian music: sweet and gritty. Rosenvinge is of Danish heritage, though she was born in Spain. She must have sukkersmuds in her blood. There seems to be something about these cross-cultural hybrids that make for fascinating music. They are especially interesting to me when they are not trying to make a fusion of styles, but trying to make something new. I’m thinking of the Italian brothers and Japanese singer in the NYC band Blonde Redhead, or elodieO, another New Yorker who sings in English and her native French. Stereolab too, for that matter.
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