Elisabeth Esselink has a record store in Amsterdam with her small studio in the basement. In there she deconstructs samples of bootlegs and records nobody wants, to make songs that she can sing over. It's a result unlike trip hop or most sampled music, and it's a very good thing. (www.matadorrecords.com)
Music Reviews | No. 28
My Day is Just Beginning
by Larry Crane
Tracked by our pal Phill Brown, this is white jazz/blues at it's finest, carving out his own style within the genres and playing and singing like it matters. Phill's engineering is tops, of course....