Mira Calix - Skimskitta flac album

Mira Calix (born 1970, real name Chantal Passamonte) is a British-based artist signed to Warp Records. Born in South Africa, Chantal Passamonte moved to London in 1991. She began to work at a record shop and took up organizing parties and DJing

Skimskitta is a studio album by Mira Calix. It was released by Warp Records in 2003. Andy Beta of Pitchfork gave the album a . out of 10, saying, "Skimskitta isn't particularly strong or potent, but it's relaxed and smooth enough to induce a very mellow, mild buzz.

Skimskitta ‎(CD, Album). WARPCD104, warpcd 104. Mira Calix. Skimskitta ‎(CD, Album). Warp Records, Warp Records.

Skimskitta opens with some e-bowed guitar and glitch noise, before moving into the unadorned piano and rasping breaths of "Poussou". The beats don't formally appear until track three, "Woody", and they quickly skitter and dribble away like mercury as the gongs resonate, her low-mixed voice drifting in and out of consciousness

By: Mira Calix (2003, Electronic). More albums from Mira Calix: One On One by Mira Calix. Phantasie Für Orgel Mit Obbligati, Sonorités, Volumina, Étude N. ( Harmonies ) by Mira Calix. Eyes Set Against The Sun by Mira Calix. View all albums . Skimskitta. By: Mira Calix (2003, Electronic).

Again, It Starts, 00:38. The Wolf, The Sheep & The Door, 06:08.

Mira Calix's second album 'Skimskitta' is a walk by the ocean, collecting pebbles of sound that she allows to intermingle on the windowsill back in her kitchen-studio. It has that 'natural' quality, same as, say, Jan Garbarek's 'Dis' - has the authenticity of source apparent in Aphex Twin's recent ed piano-pieces. It nods toward ambient, but is more tuneful, reminding me of Su-Paka-Pooh's Sunny Side Garden (the more esoteric moments from that glorious album)