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22 November 1999
By Deirdre Devers in Splendid E-Zine (USA), November 22, 1999

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“You have never heard anything like this. I mean that.”

You have never heard anything like this. I mean that. On first listen, Ellipsis and Rising Tides of Generations Lost may remind one of the emotionally unsettling Diamanda Galas recordings of the late eighties. Imagine being left in the basement of the Amityville house with a box of wet matches and you have an approximation of Claire-voie’s atmosphere of unease. There is a bleak austerity to these pieces, composed of a foreboding soprano accompanied by stray sounds, rustling percussion and ghostly synthesizers. Wende Bartley’s Claire-voie is a siren song not meant for the faint hearted.

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