Kirlian Camera - Your Face In The Sun mp3 album

This single opens with the simplistic but always effective title track, a smooth, somewhat naive ballad, seductive in it's slow drifting lazy style. The rhythmic electronics - distinctive in their off faltering way - chop and roll in a constant pattern. "A Message To Live By" is merely a spoken word thing. "Your Face In The Grey Sun" uses the backing from the first version but vocodes the words for a chillingly effective New Era choral sound. A cold grey drifting version of the song, like the pall from a funeral pyre hanging over a wasted landscape of programmed drums. "Cocaine White Gardens (Bondarenko Pt.II)" concludes the single - layers of floating keyboards and drifting human voices layer upon each other. Ethereal choral music which is surprisingly mature and effective, this would sound right as a film soundtrack, perhaps to something historic, with a religious theme. KIRLIAN CAMERA have certainly produced a distinctive single with this one - I cannot think of anything to compare it to. Almost pop music, it is saved by it's unconventional rhythmic devices which, with the virginal-sounding female vocalist, give the song almost TOO MUCH hook. KIRLIAN CAMERA are EMILIA LO JACONO - vocals & treated vocals; ANGELO BERGAMINI - keyboards, programming, sampling, treated vocals; SIMON BALESTRAZZI - programming, treatments; IMAR ZEDA - Fx. Originally reviewed for Soft Watch.