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Love Among the Shadowed Things: From 'Weird Tales for Winter' 2010, Resonance 104​.​4 FM, UK

by Vanessa Daou

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"You simply must listen to (or download) Vanessa Daou's brilliant EP ‘Love Among the Shadowed Things’, recorded for the ‘Weird Tales for Winter’ show curated by Jonny Mugwump on UK radio station Resonance 104.4FM. Poetry, ghostly jazz, sinister choirs, footsteps, trains clacking on tracks, a needle endlessly circling the lead-out of a record and Vanessa's unmistakable voice -- it's like the soundtrack for a film David Lynch has yet to make. Brava!." -- Collin Kelley, Author

On Jan. 31, 2010, a collection of four tone poems from Vanessa Daou, collectively titled ‘Love Among the Shadowed Things’, debuted on the seasonal ‘Weird Tales for Winter’ segment of Jonny Mugwump & The Exotic Pylon’s experimental radio series broadcasting on London's community radio/Radio Art-format Resonance 104.4 FM.

Composed around four themes - "Dream," "Snow," "Shadow" and "Night," the poems that comprise ‘Love Among the Shadowed Things’ are stream-of-conscious spoken word collages accompanied with sparse free jazz instrumental arrangements and thickly-layered sound effects. Daou describes this aural meditation as a “juxtapositioning of things secular and temporal ... familiar ... mystifying ... universal and eternal”.

Mugwump described the series and his inspired collaboration with Daou in an interview with The Quietus: “Late last year I put together a series of sonic fictions for radio called ‘Weird Tales for Winter’. In an effort to prevent it from becoming overly hauntological, I asked Vanessa if she might want to get involved. The entirely unpredictable end result of this was a magnificent Gothic New York winter tone poem entitled ‘Love Among the Shadowed Things’, in which Vanessa entirely surrenders to all the strangeness that's more subtly implied in her albums - still concerned with meta/physical affairs of the heart and body, but taking lyrical jump-cuts across the globe. Musically, she takes some extraordinary leaps into the dark - abstract, adrift, littered with found sound and with an elliptical meditative narrative. This was immediately followed by a visual interpretation of one of the four sections, which left me wondering what next, where now? Anything seeming possible..."

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released January 31, 2010

All songs written, arranged, produced and performed by Vanessa Daou

Mastering by Mike Degen | Stimulant Sound [NYC]

Art & Design by Vanessa Daou
Cover Photo by Vanessa Daou

Executive Producers: Vanessa Daou and Craig Roseberry for KID Recordings, LLC

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Vanessa Daou is an American singer, songwriter, poet, visual artist and dancer. Most notably a musician, her work is known among electronica, nu jazz and trip hop circles for her trademark spoken word and aspirated singing style as well as its erotic and literary subtexts.

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