Southern Rec.
Elizabeth Anka : Vajagic (US, 2003)***
I’m one of those persons who prefer to hear emotions in music, without reservedness, wherever these emotions would bring it. This is a kind of sick-of-loneliness lament-kind of music, accompanied by some guests from the label (from the groups Godspeed You Black Emperor, Hangedup, A Silver Mt. Zion) with strummed guitar, and dark background echoed sounds, some easy drum rhythms, harmonica and sparse cello, and some electric guitar solo harmonies.
I think the texts are mostly some kind of stimulations bringing her to her expressions, as basic humming foundations, building up restraints of slightly unspecified held back crying-out emotions. I did not figure out its true directions, but the last song left me with sadness...
