Search - Mira Calix :: One on One

Electronic innovation, period

G. R. Meluch | elsewhere | 05/13/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"'One On One' (not 'One To One') is a great debut album from this wife of Autechre member Sean Booth. The record combines awkward and indecipherable beats with calm melodies on a synthesizer, while the woman herself hums and puts bits of her own distorted voice over it all. Definitely avant-garde done well."

Honestly, somewhere between 3 and 5

old_hyperbolic_squiggly | 01/07/2002

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I know I originally gave this CD five stars, but that was within the context of avant garde music. If you want something truly wild, strange and obscure, Mira Calix the artist I recommend for the genre. There's some good variety on this CD. Some of the tunes are a bit scary. She has an intriguing voice, and has some exotic beats. This woman tends to compose like she has ants in her pants. One track sounds like joyful bees in a windtunnel. Don't expect to throw this kind of CD on all the time, though, as one of your "soundtracks" for everyday life ... it is too distant and off-kilter for that. Not recommended for driving. Listening to this while lying on the couch on a lazy, sunny Saturday afternoon suits the experimentation and occasional paranoia of this disc best. Recommended for when your mind wants to take a leisurely hike in some fresh weeds. Don't pass up seeing her live in concert, though. She was great!"

Excellent Cd

Robert L. Sparks | From Ultraworld (near vegas) | 01/21/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I find this to be my favorite full length album by Mira Calix, helped in part by one of the 2 extra tracks they added on the re-release



Sandsings

Sandsings - Boards of Canda remix



giving this a total 18 actuall tracks



mira calix takes this instrumentation and "fx" you expect from the various warp artiest .. mostly the older sounds when most of the major players where more laid back and "quiet" and brings her own haunting quality to them by adding a different "feel" to them .. her



the major flaw in mira calix's music .. and even some of the more recent warp releases's seems to be the in-ability to stay within a certain mood .. so that you can through the album on and it will create or match the mood your in.. this was in my opinion why the older releases worked so well they were limited in the extreams where the recent stuff including this go from relaxed and haunting to "I wanna piss off my neighbors with this huge insane banging bass line" .. as an album from begining to end you might take off a few stars but the songs by them selves are all great if like me you move you music around anyways (mix cd's compilations. track listing .. portable players etc.. )"