Sun Papa and the Fan Club Orchestra (Sonig)
Ton Wah (Sonig)
Queries (Sonig)
Voodooluba (Sonig)
Electronica Experimental
"A real antidote to the sleek efficiency of most sampled-based electronica ¡Æ Niobe is playful like killer whales are playful. Watch out or she'll bite your legs off." [The Wire 10/2004]
Far from all clich¨¦s and stereotypes, unfazed and in complete control, Yvonne Cornelius aka Niobe continues to develop what has become her signature sound: her trained voice. With it, she samples catchy melodies as well as complex vocal arrangements, all of this with a great feeling for tone, modulation and harmonies. On Voodooluba, Cornelius takes a big and decisive step forward and reaches beyond the compositional style displayed on her last album: Over all her insinuations, breaking off and questioning, she puts elaborated song-arrangements and all-knowing pop-elegies.
The results are wonderfully and unexpectedly equable tracks, songs and ballads from late modernism. Then again we encounter unambiguous massive rhythmic moments, in which the inquiring voices fall silent and Niobe suddenly becomes magnificent pop music.
Live at Dingwallls, London 26th February 2009 (Eat Your Own Ears)
Polyfolk Dance (Warp)
King Of The Witches (inc. Rub N Tug Remix) (DFA)
