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CD: 2000  "House of Hands"

Anna Homler

The often-brooding lines conjure up dark images. Holmer whispers and seduces with her voice, and the electronics state an eerie case on this unusually crafted recording. It is disconcertedly bewitching.

TRACKS:

  1. Jungle Cake
  2. Fingerhut
  3. Oo-ee
  4. Robot Love Song
  5. Barcata
  6. Rue Clarisse
  7. Ejo Wob'co
  8. Die Hande
  9. E'sha Ko'la Kee'yo
  10. Pillow Song
  11. Rosalie
  12. Dosomeli
NOTES

"Holmer is a Los Angeles-based performance artist in whose work visual art plays a central role. In all of her work, Holmer creates a persona who expresses herself in a newly inveted language that appears to be rife with tradition, ritual, ceremony and a culture all it's own. The language is couched in lyrical and somewhat exotic melodies sung with a pure vocal style sans vibrato, which gives the work an ambience of an authentic folk tradition. Holmer's voice is pleasent and accurate. The delivery, ever so slightly nasal, alludes to a non-western culture and might be likened to that of the now famous Bulgarian women's choral Music."

Option Magazine
".....a witch with a few home brewed spells an a ray gun....", "... a singer who can take an audience by the hand and lead them along the weird path between atmoospherics and surreal humor."

Resonace
".... disconcertedly bewitching."