Thursday, July 28, 2005

Who is Brandi Ifgray?

I picked up Stargazer by Brandi Ifgray from a cut-out bin purely on the fact that it had a production credit by Jimi Tenor, who did a stellar job producing the debut solo album of his wife, Nicole Willis (who in turn I had discovered through her work with Leftfield, Groove Collective, and the Repercussions); both are on Tenor's sähkö recordings label.

From what I have been able to dig up Mr. Ifgray started his career in some kind of alt-jazz-post-punk-pop outfit called Shadowplay. Other than that, I know damn-all about him. But Stargazer is an interesting outing that apparently is a far cry from his Shadowplay tenure. It is very heavily bounded in the Jimi Tenor production style; an almost IDM meets Money Mark style mish-mash of broken electronica, muted brass, strange arrangements, snippets of funk and soul, and an almost eerily cinematic vibe throughout. Think incidental music for a Hitchcock film with very low key vocals.

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