Nockalls, Erica

Dark Music From A Warm Place

What happens when a classically-trained violinist explores the more twisted neighbourhoods of alternative pop? The work of Erica Nockalls provides the searingly accurate answer. If her albums Imminent Room and EN2 showcased her baby-sweet but barbed worldview, then new set Dark Music From A Warm Place takes that genre-neutral template and drowns it in honey-flavoured acid. Her songwriting is removed from the pop norm: Emotionally derelict, blunt and melodically unsparing. This album is a tale of release and re-appropriation of oneself, a call of empowerment. Dark Music From a Warm Place was conceived during a sad summer spent in Spain, then mixed and produced by Jean-Charles Versari in Paris, France. Gritty drum machines, generous synths, cutting tones mixed with unusual violins and glass-sharp vocals: Pesante melodies meet modern anthems. Erica Nockalls conservatoire training as a violinist and vocalist are evident, but not defining. She chooses danger and experimentation with her violin, making it a tool of creation, rather than accompaniment. Blunt. Honest. Generous. Theres a lid boiling on her British reserve.

Price
€ 16.00
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Format
CD - 1 disk
Release date
27-08-2021
Label
Item-nr
550404
EAN
3700604735991
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In stock
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. MOUTH FULL OF SOMETHING
2. THE KING OF WANT
3. I KNOW (FEAT. JAH WOBBLE)
4. EIFFEL'S EYE
5. THE DYING SNOW
6. HOUSE OF ERICA
7. BUILD ME A SHIP
8. PEARLS AND A GRIN
9. MAKING FRIENDS WITH AN ALIEN