Slight Delay
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Slight Delay is the second album from Australian singer/songwriter Loene Carmen
. It was released in 2004 on Chiquita Records through Reverberation in Australia. It was recorded in Carmen's home studio, Loose Connections, in Darlinghurst, NSW and features musicians from Australian bands Mess Hall and the Dirty Three
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Mixed and mastered by Jorden Brebach
Loene Carmen’s sophomore solo album SLIGHT DELAY features Loene singing shimmering confessionals, stomping a tambourine and wringing the ghost of the blues from her guitar with a helping hand from Jed Kurzel (Mess Hall) on guitar and harmonica and Warren Ellis (Dirty Three) on violin and mandolin.
“Loene Carmen has fallen into some lost world where late night country rock is bound up in medieval chains. Mazzy Star springs straight to mind, but the flesh in Carmen’s voice and the huge spaces around it bring out other associations as well, most especially the sexy whisperings of Prince and the Rolling Stones at their loose and lazy best” – Mark Mordue
'Slight Delay' is a songbook of exquisitely mournful blues elements and intoxicating rock romantics. Against a backdrop of hypnotic spectral notes and minimalistic, loose and lazy guitar, Carmen plies late night smooch music, sexy whisperings and intimate shimmering confessionals, with something of the Gallic cool of Francoise Hardy, and the nouvelle chanson of Mazzy Star, feeding on a diet of fuzzy guitar fudge and vague hints of sour mash.
This spell-binding follow-up to her solo debut in 2002 ('Born Funky Born Free') is made even more appealing (if that's possible) with a little help from backing musicians gleaned from all corners of the rich Australian underground music culture. Warren Ellises violin, lending a touch of spacious instrumental Dirty Three (Loene Carmen was on tour with the trio at the time of writing) back-catalogue redolence to the fractured blues proceedings, along with Cathy Green (X) making an appearance on bass. Other luminaries include Kristyna (Higgins), perhaps better known for her music related photography (and relationship with Tex Perkins) than her guitar work, and Jed Kurzel (Mess Hall).
Sometime in the not too distant future, the essence of 'Slight Delay' - lazy guitar, melancholic violin, and beautiful frailty to the seductive vocals - is going to be the 'trademark' sound and style that music critics will be referring to when they review future releases from Loene Carmen. And 'Slight Delay' may very well be the yardstick by which the same music critics will measure albums by other artists of this ilk.
Loene Carmen
Loene Carmen is an Australian singer/songwriter and actress.-Background:Carmen's father is rock/jazz/blues pianist Peter Head...
. It was released in 2004 on Chiquita Records through Reverberation in Australia. It was recorded in Carmen's home studio, Loose Connections, in Darlinghurst, NSW and features musicians from Australian bands Mess Hall and the Dirty Three
Dirty Three
Dirty Three are an instrumental trio consisting of Warren Ellis , Mick Turner and Jim White , originating from Melbourne, Australia. Since the Dirty Three formed in 1992, they have spent a lot of time overseas...
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Personnel
- Loene CarmenLoene CarmenLoene Carmen is an Australian singer/songwriter and actress.-Background:Carmen's father is rock/jazz/blues pianist Peter Head...
- vocals/guitar/tambourine/beats/chimes/xylophone/organ - Jed Kurzel - guitar/vocals/harmonica/organ/tambourine
- Warren EllisWarren EllisWarren Girard Ellis is an English author of comics, novels, and television, who is well-known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and through his writing, which covers transhumanist themes...
- mandolin/violin - Cathy Green - bass
- Kristyna - guitar
- Aden YoungAden YoungAden Young is an Australian actor. In recent years he has also turned his hand to filmmaking, directing and writing short films The Rose of Ba Ziz and The Order .- Life and career :Young was born in Toronto, Canada...
- harmonica
Mixed and mastered by Jorden Brebach
Track listing
- Slight Delay (3:10)
- The Things That Matter (5:24)
- Forget Everything (4:13)
- Little Seed (3:25)
- I Don't Think I Will (4:22)
- Six Strings Of Pleasure (6:23)
- No One Knows (5:04)
- Strangely Calm (5:24)
- Just Go Along For The Ride (9:23)
- Time To Go To Bed (4:40)
Loene Carmen’s sophomore solo album SLIGHT DELAY features Loene singing shimmering confessionals, stomping a tambourine and wringing the ghost of the blues from her guitar with a helping hand from Jed Kurzel (Mess Hall) on guitar and harmonica and Warren Ellis (Dirty Three) on violin and mandolin.
“Loene Carmen has fallen into some lost world where late night country rock is bound up in medieval chains. Mazzy Star springs straight to mind, but the flesh in Carmen’s voice and the huge spaces around it bring out other associations as well, most especially the sexy whisperings of Prince and the Rolling Stones at their loose and lazy best” – Mark Mordue
'Slight Delay' is a songbook of exquisitely mournful blues elements and intoxicating rock romantics. Against a backdrop of hypnotic spectral notes and minimalistic, loose and lazy guitar, Carmen plies late night smooch music, sexy whisperings and intimate shimmering confessionals, with something of the Gallic cool of Francoise Hardy, and the nouvelle chanson of Mazzy Star, feeding on a diet of fuzzy guitar fudge and vague hints of sour mash.
This spell-binding follow-up to her solo debut in 2002 ('Born Funky Born Free') is made even more appealing (if that's possible) with a little help from backing musicians gleaned from all corners of the rich Australian underground music culture. Warren Ellises violin, lending a touch of spacious instrumental Dirty Three (Loene Carmen was on tour with the trio at the time of writing) back-catalogue redolence to the fractured blues proceedings, along with Cathy Green (X) making an appearance on bass. Other luminaries include Kristyna (Higgins), perhaps better known for her music related photography (and relationship with Tex Perkins) than her guitar work, and Jed Kurzel (Mess Hall).
Sometime in the not too distant future, the essence of 'Slight Delay' - lazy guitar, melancholic violin, and beautiful frailty to the seductive vocals - is going to be the 'trademark' sound and style that music critics will be referring to when they review future releases from Loene Carmen. And 'Slight Delay' may very well be the yardstick by which the same music critics will measure albums by other artists of this ilk.