WHERE THE HOKEY POKEY "IS" WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT

Gush Forth Your Tears

Posted over 2 years ago
As promised to poebegone this is the track that got me interested in Miranda Sex Garden.
This band were totally unlike anything else that I'd ever listened to. In fact the closest thing to them I'd ever heard was the opera singing alien in the Fifth Element. While the album that this track came from is quite difficult to listen to for many people, being entirely a cappella, their later albums as already pointed out introduced instruments, taking them from classical to almost gothic industrial.

I'm not entirely sure how I came to hear this track, only that for some reason I was switching channels on the tv and came across this song being played on the classic fm tv station. It was a haunting fusion of classical madrigal and techno that was able to take it's component parts and create something that was greater than just adding them together. I was hooked. It was one of those rare moments where a genre was trancended, much like Vanessa Mae with Storm. Even if the rest of their music is not to your taste this one truly stands out on it's own.

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  1. poebegone says heya, thank you for this, very much appreciated. i don't know if you caught my late reply (difference of time zones) to your comment but i mentioned there that i miss a lot of my own CDs because i had to leave so many behind, very unfortunately, when i relocated from the Philippines to Cambodia. i also said there that i am rediscovering Madra, now that i am more than ten years older than when it first came out (1991 or something); my opinion has not changed that Madra is their best work. you know what else? i don't know if you dig Radiohead but i recently discovered a Miranda cover of Exit Music (For a Film) - does that rock or what? i love Mog. :D thanks, and welcome!
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