It Won't Be Long Alison or ISENIH #29
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Some of you swell Moggers might not be familiar with my early nineties series(especially you who are new to my posts). ISENIH stands for "I'm So Early Nineties It Hurts". The reason I titled these as such is that in my music collection I picked up ALOT of music during that time, music that has gone by the wayside due to do my music addiction for more new sounds. This is an effort to revisit that music & re-appreciate the gems in my collection. And it's also an effort to fill in the gaps(thanks Neill)in the MOG library. Just to catch everyone up, so you know.The 29th installment(I can't believe I've done 29 of these already) of this series is about an Essex, England artist by the name of Alison Moyet, with a gorgeous, silky & smoky alto voice. "Hoodoo", released in '91 was my introduction to her as a solo artist. Here's the first single called "It Won't Be Long":This single caught my attention due to Alison's wonderful voice but also because of the appropriation of the "shoegaze" style of music that was popular at that time(Curve,MBV,Catherine Wheel, Lush, Ride, etc). I say appropriation because once I picked up the album I discovered that it wasn't her usual style, but I loved her voice so much it didn't matter. Here's another fav from this cd:This following live performance is closer to her usual style, the song "Rise":Just absolutely love her voice! Alison took a good length of time off after her '94 cd "Essex" when her label Sony began trying to tell her what to do creatively on that album. She made another cd but Sony refused to release it due to their creative differences(Sony, of course wanted more 'commercial' songs to sell & Alison didn't). Alison waited out her contract with Sony and finally was able to release "Hometime" in '02. She released another in '04 of covers and apparently is working on a new release.
Alison started out in the group Yaz(in the U.S., Yazoo in the U.K.)in '81 but split after two albums & went solo in '83. She released her first solo cd "Alf" in '84 followed by "Raindancing" in '87.Thanks to "Chucky":http://mog.com/chucky/blog_post/75231 and "Mousetrapmedia":http://mog.com/mousetrapmedia/blog_post/80344#commentsfor being the inspirations for this post!http://www.alisonmoyet.co.uk/home.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Moyet
Alison started out in the group Yaz(in the U.S., Yazoo in the U.K.)in '81 but split after two albums & went solo in '83. She released her first solo cd "Alf" in '84 followed by "Raindancing" in '87.Thanks to "Chucky":http://mog.com/chucky/blog_post/75231 and "Mousetrapmedia":http://mog.com/mousetrapmedia/blog_post/80344#commentsfor being the inspirations for this post!http://www.alisonmoyet.co.uk/home.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Moyet
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