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FOCUS ON: Nina Walsh
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- Label: Malicious Damage >>
- Genre: Folk
New album out on Malicious Damage.
From making and releasing seminal techno records throughout the 90s on Sabrettes to outlandish industrial noise experimentations on her own C-Pij imprint, devilish break infestations as Slab alongside the Drum Club’s Lol Hammond and vocal collaborations with Andrew Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood’s Two Lone Swordsmen and Alex Paterson’s Root Masters, Nina Walsh’s ‘Bright Lights & Filthy Nights’ may come as a bit of a surprise to some.
With a voice fused with emotional introspection, Nina has produced a cohesive and beautifully balanced album that evokes the spirit of folk femme fatale’s such as Lisa Hannigan, Francoise Hardey and Martha Wainwright. With a voice fused with emotional introspection, Nina has produced a cohesive and beautifully balanced album that evokes the spirit of folk femme fatale’s such as Lisa Hannigan, Francoise Hardey and Martha Wainwright.
One voice plus acoustic stringed instrument is one of the oldest musical combinations on the planet, used by anyone from troubadours to aural insurrectionists to create a mood or tell a story since time immemorial. Having delved with vengeful passion into a variety of musical styles since the early 90s, Nina Walsh has now alighted on this most basic of forms, using it to construct her own unique world in a hallucinogenic bed of subtle electronic undergrowth and insidious melodic flourishes.
Although Nina started her musical journey with four years learning Spanish guitar beginning at the age of 13, it’s a bit of a contrast to her recorded debut as a member of the Rabettes, a one-off tribal techno project which made one 12-inch called ‘Bunny New Guinea-Pig’, released on Sabrettes, the label she started as a sister imprint to Andrew Weatherall’s legendary Sabres Of Paradise, which she co-ran.
After overseeing a barrage of seminal techno of both labels, Nina formed a big beat sleaze assault called Slab with Lol Hammond from the Drum Club, who released two albums on Hydrogen Jukebox. She then appeared on two tracks on The Orb’s Cydonia album [‘Ghost Dancing’ and ‘Plum Island’], more recently participating in the Root Masters project with Dr Alex Paterson. Nina has also set up her own C-Pij imprint, releasing the Wah/Fuzz/Swell album among other outings and collaborations, including Biomuse.
