Emiliana Torrinis "Fishermans Woman"

I just wanted to take this opportunity to plug another wonderful and dreamy
album. Very cool mixture of earthly, organic, nautical songs. Beautiful vox
and dreamy arrangements.

I loved her first album "Love in a Time of Science", but that seemed a bit
too Björkish for my taste, as if she was trying to be like Bjork instead
of being herself. And on this album she left all of that weird electronic
"Post/Homogenic" production copying behind and just made a startlingly and
almost shockingly soft and acoustic album.


Here's an allmusic.com review, just for reference:

Emiliana Torrini's 2000 debut Love in the Time of Science showcased the singer's Icelandic/Italian voice in a swirl of trip-hop beats and glossy electronica skitters, sounding precisely like Björk filtered through Roland Orzabal's refined pop eardrums. Following the sonic overload that her debuted offered, Torrini's follow-up Fisherman's Woman feels like a sigh of relief.

Accompanied almost exclusively by gently strummed acoustic guitars and the soft creaking of boats on a river*, her cool whispers bring to mind the charming work of Nick Drake or an impossibly sunny Mazzy Star. Warmly intimate, it almost seems as though the engineers stumbled across a wood nymph with a
six-string guitar sighing gently on the banks of a tumbling brook, set up their recording equipment, and then came back an hour later to hear what they had captured.

Of course it takes a lot of work to sound this effortless, and producer/multi-instrumentalist Dan Carey (alias "Mr. Dan") took great pains to capture the acoustic setting, augmenting occasionally with a quiet piano or light percussion, but primarily allowing Torrini's breathy voice to meander through her straightforward melodies and childlike sentiments.

Needless to say, the music is unquestionably beautiful in its simplicity and
honesty; summery and warm, and casually intimate but with a real lasting quality. These are the songs that sneak into the listener's subconscious, lying in wait until the perfect spring day to surface in the form of a quiet hum or low whistle, sounding for all the world like a lullaby long forgotten or a folk song never written down
allmusic.:
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*Especially the creaking boats make for such an amazingly intimate atmosphere
in songs like "Lifesaver", already one of my fav songs of all time.

Biography
Singer/songwriter Emiliana Torrini composes an exquisite vocalic beauty, similar to the hums of Beth Hirsch and Kirsty Hawkshaw, making Torrini's innocence a delicate cast of luminous imagery. She is of Italian and Icelandic decent, but lives in England, and her cultural seascape is ever more inviting when her soft-spoken compositions are heard. She joined forces with Tears for Fears' Roland Orzabal to produce her first album Love in the Time of Science, which was released in fall 2000 on Virgin. Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson heard her cool, otherworldly croon and approved Torrini to voice the finale music for 2002's The Two Towers, and she followed up this cinematic achievement by releasing the soft-spoken but beautiful Fisherman's Woman in early 2005.



[Edited 9/9/05 2:19am]

i dug a few tracks off the first one, i have her latest release loaded into my library, though i haven't heard it yet. Looks like i need to add it to my playlist. Thanks for the words of encouragement.

sinisterpentatonic said:

i have the same problems sometimes. last one was with A Bigger Bang
from the Roling Stones, someone was encouraging me to get it and I
found out I already had it in my library

bump bump (for 2freaky4church1)

Sounds very nice!

her first album was fantastic, i played it constantly. never could quite get into the newest one, though.

JonSnow said:

I like her first one too.

Maybe I'll give this new one a try.

I finally heard it and i like it a lot!

SassyBritches said:

yer a brat

Oh, I just have to show my love on this thread. She is amazing. Saw her singing with Thievery Corporation once - what a night!