Under A Different Sky

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:39:58
Personnel includes: Via Tania, John Herndon, Doug McCombs, Howie Gelb, Chris Brokaw, Prefuse-73. Personnel: Guillermo Scott Herren (guitar, harmonica, programming); Tania Bowers (guitar, Fender Rhodes piano); Chris Brokaw (guitar); Howe Gelb (piano, keyboards, string synthesizer); Larry Gray (Fender Rhodes piano, background vocals); Casey Rice (synthesizer, programming, sampler); Wayne Montana (bass instrument); Noel Kupersmith (drums); Lara Gray (background vocals); Douglas McCombs (guitar, dobro); John Herndon (drums, programming). Audio Mixer: Casey Rice. Recording information: Classixs And Engine Studios (2002). Photographer: Sally Russell. Via Tania is singer/songwriter Tania May-Bowers, a Chicago-based chanteuse by way of Australia. Her intimate, slightly breathy vocals come on like a cross between Billie Holiday and Lisa Germano with a little Rosie Cuckston (Pram) on the side. On her full-length debut, she is backed by an all-star coalition of mostly-local players: Doug McCombs (Eleventh Dream Day), Noel Kupersmith (Brokeback), Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), Chris Brokaw (Come), Scott Herren (Prefuse-73), John Herndon (Tortoise), and husband Casey Rice (who mixed and recorded the album). Under a Different Sky is dreamy, late night listening with dub, jazz, and ambient influences woven into its electronic web. Each song drifts by on delicately pulsing waves of sound, somewhat akin to the New Age Steppers and McCombs and Kupersmith's Looks at the Bird (their third recording as Brokeback), at least on those tracks on which Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier and Mary Hansen contributed their typically understated vocals. ~ Kathleen C. Fennessy