Emiliana Torrini reprises her relationship with producer/songwriter Dan Carney on Me and Armini, which mixes fingerplucked folk with elements of jazz, dancehall, electronica, and summery pop. Splitting the difference between the intimate acoustics of 2005's Fisherman's Woman and the trip-hop experiments on Love in the Time of Science, Me and Armini finds room for Torrini to flex all of her muscles. She's a sultry mistress on "Gun," peppering the verses with blasts of hot breath cloaked in echo. It's a surprisingly sexy performance -- almost feline, not unlike something by the Kills -- with a muted guitar riff that threatens to explode into noisy catharsis but stubbornly keeps its composure. Elsewhere, Torrini tones down the heat in favor of winsome innocence, mimicking a percussive instrument on "Jungle Drum" and filling "Big Jumps" with strings of endearing doop-de-doop vocals and a commercial pop chorus. Several songs also cement her musical connection to Björk -- an easy link to make, perhaps, given the women's shared Icelandic heritage, but a factual one nevertheless -- and tunes like "Birds" and "Heard It All Before" show that both singers employ similar vocal ticks. Elsewhere, Torrini's material evokes the jazzy cadence of Inara George or even the reggae-tinged swagger of Lily Allen, particularly on the album's breezy title track. Yet comparisons to other artists don't quite do Emiliana Torrini justice, as she's carved out her own sonic space over the course of several albums. With its wide array of genres -- all executed with earnestness and confidence -- Me and Armini emerges as an album suitable for bookworms and beach bunnies, homebodies and world travelers, dancers and wallflowers. Highly recommended.
I've been a fan of Emiliana Torrini ever since seeing her perform Sunny Road on a YouTube clip some years, but I'd never had the pleasure of seeing her live. I was delighted to hear she was going to make the journey to Australia, and felt a great sense of satisfaction when she eventually appeared on stage at the Metro Theatre in Sydney.Playing songs from all her records, including the most rece...
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Iceland's Emiliana Torrini is a musical vagabond of sorts, having wandered over the years through a wide range of sonic settings. Trained in opera as a teenager, Torrini's international debut CD, 1999's Love in the Time of Science, introduced her as a trip-hop diva, with excursions into electronica and synthesizer pop, while her next release, Fisherman's Woman (2005), was all intimate and ...
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Emiliana Torrini is the progeny of an Italian father and Icelandic mother, she made a few albums when she was young that only saw release in Iceland, but with her widely released Love In The Time Of Science she gained a wider audience in Europe. The album rode the last vestiges of an electronic trip-hop sound which has inevitably dated it despite some excellent songcraft, her second widely rele...
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Do do do do do do do...... :-)
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I love this track from the album Me and Armini (2008). Set to video from Shinya Tsukamoto's Bullet Ballet (1998).
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This is from my October songs mixdisc now in progress, but I couldn't wait. it's a slow burn, ssssssss
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I've been a fan of Emiliana Torrini ever since seeing her perform Sunny Road on a YouTube clip some years, but I'd never had the pleasure of seeing her live. I was delighted to hear she was going to make the journey to Australia, and felt a great sense of satisfaction when she eventually appeared on stage at the Metro Theatre in Sydney.Playing songs from all her records, including the most rece...
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Me and Armini is a nice number to kick off her new record. She's from Iceland and used to work at an Italian restaurant that her father owned. I hope he let her sing!
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I found Emiliana while walking home from class a couple years ago. My solemn, cold walk home was interrupted when I noticed something shining on the sidewalk ahead. Are those cd's, I asked myself. Sure enough they were. Pedro the Lion's Achilles Heel , and Emiliana Torrini's album The Fisherman's Woman . For an indie music freak like me, finding two albums randomly on a sidewalk that I d...
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This Emiliana Torrini lady is something. One of those precious things made me start to think 'Anything Icelandic, please!' For a moment she goes on deep down and calm and smooth and bright then the dark side shows itself before long. Heavier ambiance along with the cotton soft vocals. Just put on Me and Armini after some months, following a long and winding work day and thanking to myself for r...
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Iceland's Emiliana Torrini is a musical vagabond of sorts, having wandered over the years through a wide range of sonic settings. Trained in opera as a teenager, Torrini's international debut CD, 1999's Love in the Time of Science, introduced her as a trip-hop diva, with excursions into electronica and synthesizer pop, while her next release, Fisherman's Woman (2005), was all intimate and ...
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Emiliana Torrini is the progeny of an Italian father and Icelandic mother, she made a few albums when she was young that only saw release in Iceland, but with her widely released Love In The Time Of Science she gained a wider audience in Europe. The album rode the last vestiges of an electronic trip-hop sound which has inevitably dated it despite some excellent songcraft, her second widely rele...
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Iceland's Emiliana Torrini was once known primarily for being virtually indistinguishable from Bjrk. She's done a lot to differentiate herself over the years though, and her new record is on some other-other stuff. Her latest single, the feel-good sing-a-long Folk-Pop tune "Big Jumps," with it's super cute and well executed video, goes a long way towards un-Bjrk-ing her. "Big Jumps" is fr...
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| 1 Fireheads |
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| 2 Me and Armini |
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| 3 Birds |
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| 4 Heard It All Before |
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| 5 Ha Ha |
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| 6 Big Jumps |
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| 7 Jungle Drum |
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| 8 Hold Heart |
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| 9 Gun |
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| 10 Beggar's Prayer |
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| 11 Dead Duck |
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| 12 Bleeder |
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