Record Reviews
Martha Cinader's
Po'azz Yo'azz
Living it
For once, we have a review of an album that hasn't been released yet.
It can be obtained only from the artist Martha Cinader herself. Martha
Cinader caught our attention with the phenomenal track "Living it", of
which the Victor Simonelli remix is extraordinary. The reason this track
caught our attention was because of the lyrics, yes, the lyrics ! The
lyrics of "Living it" are one strong emotional outlet about life in its
fullest effect. It breaths the spirit of a creative artistic energetic life
which immediately catches ones attention. That made us look furhter
at who the artist Martha Cinader was and brought us to her Po'azz
Yo'azz album. This is not the ordinary album for sure ! It's clear
that Martha Cinadar offers plenty of interesting views through her
lyrics. In fact, she describes her music as a mixture between poetry
and music and so it is. Listen to the track "White Linen" and you'll
know. It's a sort of poem about becoming old in this society. "Eat" is
completely differently styled, reflecting societies fast food way of living
in both lyrics and tempo. There is "Yes No" on drum'n'bass music that
in some way reflects the undeciding battles between loving people.
Weird for sure as the music and lyrics go hand in hand with the
emotions. Of course "Living it" is here too, but in a much more
intimate disguise on drum'n'bass music. Here, the vocals get much
more accent than on the Victor Simonelli remix. More poetry goes in
"Rosebud" and "Belated Mother's day", where we hear Martha
Cinader's soft voice telling the Rosebud poetry on piano background
or the "Belated Mother's day" on violin. Finally, there is "Po'azz
yo'azz" where Martha Cinader is sort of introducing what it is all about.
A little strange she puts this track on the last position. She tells about
the mixture of poetry and jazz, about digging one's soul to express
emotions, and feelings. And that's exactly what she has been doing in
this full album. It's perhaps a combination we're not so used to these
days, but it's sure that Martha Cinader brings an original way of
making music, poetry and emotions. She seems to be the kind of
person that goes for her own ideas, style, feeling, interpretions,
without giving in to commercially dictated styles. And that alone is
great !�- Freestyle Grooves
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Record Reviews
Martha Cinader's
Po'azz Yo'azz
Living it
For once, we have a review of an album that hasn't been released yet.
It can be obtained only from the artist Martha Cinader herself. Martha
Cinader caught our attention with the phenomenal track "Living it", of
which the Victor Simonelli remix is extraordinary. The reason this track
caught our attention was because of the lyrics, yes, the lyrics ! The
lyrics of "Living it" are one strong emotional outlet about life in its
fullest effect. It breaths the spirit of a creative artistic energetic life
which immediately catches ones attention. That made us look furhter
at who the artist Martha Cinader was and brought us to her Po'azz
Yo'azz album. This is not the ordinary album for sure ! It's clear
that Martha Cinadar offers plenty of interesting views through her
lyrics. In fact, she describes her music as a mixture between poetry
and music and so it is. Listen to the track "White Linen" and you'll
know. It's a sort of poem about becoming old in this society. "Eat" is
completely differently styled, reflecting societies fast food way of living
in both lyrics and tempo. There is "Yes No" on drum'n'bass music that
in some way reflects the undeciding battles between loving people.
Weird for sure as the music and lyrics go hand in hand with the
emotions. Of course "Living it" is here too, but in a much more
intimate disguise on drum'n'bass music. Here, the vocals get much
more accent than on the Victor Simonelli remix. More poetry goes in
"Rosebud" and "Belated Mother's day", where we hear Martha
Cinader's soft voice telling the Rosebud poetry on piano background
or the "Belated Mother's day" on violin. Finally, there is "Po'azz
yo'azz" where Martha Cinader is sort of introducing what it is all about.
A little strange she puts this track on the last position. She tells about
the mixture of poetry and jazz, about digging one's soul to express
emotions, and feelings. And that's exactly what she has been doing in
this full album. It's perhaps a combination we're not so used to these
days, but it's sure that Martha Cinader brings an original way of
making music, poetry and emotions. She seems to be the kind of
person that goes for her own ideas, style, feeling, interpretions,
without giving in to commercially dictated styles. And that alone is
great !�- Freestyle Grooves
"This is a good marriage of spoken word and drum n' bass. It's fresh
and
definately a new take on things." —— DJ Marquess Wyatt, MIXMAG
USA,
Feb./March 1998 DMA
"Living It", The Remixes featuring Martha Cinader
Liquid Sound Lound Lounge Recordings
You know, if it comes from Jeannie Hopper, I absolutely KNOW it's
gonna be
good-that girl's definitely got her finger on the pulse. First she sends
me the
original set of mixes on her very own LSL production "Living IT" (see
review in
Feb/March '98 DMA) which totally blew me away; then she turned me
o to the
smooth Philly soul assemblages of King Britt's Sylk 130 When the
Funk Hits
The Fan LP on Ovum/Columbia Records (see review of the album
elsewhere in
this issue). Now she slams me with two more goodies, the Victor
Simonelli
remixes of "Living It" and the Burnin' EP" from German house
producers
Ruffcut. On the "Living It" remixes, Victor Simonelli gives a classy
minimalistic
interpretation that clearly places Martha Cinader's philosophical word-
smithing in the centerstage; it bumps along at a lively 122 BPM pace
with
mellow synth sstabs, subtle funky key work and a thick atmospheric
texture.
Simonelli also includes a beatless acapella and a bonus beats-only
track so
those whar are inclined may work their own turntable magic. Also
included on
this 12" is Birth of Cool's Deep Dub, a continuation of their Dub mix
from the
original 12" that goes straight for the funk in a fluid, energetic U.K.
deep
house fashinon.
URB Magazine
Martha Cinader
Living It (Victor Simonelli Remix)
(LSL) Simonelli's mixes transport this trippy spoken poem into the
dreamy,
drugged-out state it should have been presented in. Taken in with a
blunt or
in a smoky dark club, I think the effect will be the same, at least in
theory.
The VJS a cappella, with 808 sounds, harp and oscillating vintage
keys, is
dope. Kicks are to be had on he vox mix; they are as sedate as
Simonelli's
original designs, but the ethereal mood vanishes a bit. The Pseudo a
cappella
is the joint. €DJDK
Dance Music Authority
" LIVING IT "
DJ JeannieHopper and Sabine Worthmann
Featuring Martha Cinader
" You know in this job as a reviewer, I listen to a LOT of vinyl, and it's
actually
VERY rare when something really jumps out and grabs me as much as
this
piece did. DJ Jeannie Hopper and the LSL crew really caught my
attention with
this very creative project that marries some interesting spoken word-
smithing with various jazz-rooted remixing styles. On the A side, even
the
drum n' bass oriented Original mix appeals to me (usually not a genre
that I
would be drawn to), with its snappy drum programming, subtle
booming
bass, and sparse, dreamy instrumentation; John Ward (of Sub Dub
fame) then
offers his trippy Sub -Freak version, an eclectically sound -effected
jazzy dub
rendition that suits the philosophical musings of Martha Cinader quite
well.
But for a more uptempo dancing experience, I'd flip on over to Lars
"lb"
Behrenroth and Michael Carstensen's deeper Birth of Cool House and
Dub
mixes. Swirling, dreamy atmospheric synths, bumpin' key stabs,
meandering
jazzy vibe riffs, bubbling samba-ish bass lines and syncopated (at
times)
percussion over a pumpinhouse track-very well produced, giving
Cinader's
poetic rambling a totally different framework in which to flow. I
absolutely
love this piece, and I hear Tony Humphries is also a fan of the BOC
mixes. For
more info, check out Hopper's LSL website at
www.liquidsoundlounge.com."
-Margaret Coble Dance Music Authority March '98
If you're a fan of Dana Bryant or Me'Shell Ndegeocello this is for you.
Pure
poetry in motion - quite literally; DJ Jeannie Hopper has teamed with
'wordologist' (sic) Martha Cinader in a journey through life - mixing
poetry
with improvised-jazz, house-beats, techno-chords and drum n' bass
arrangements. Similariy the four remixes are equally eclectic moving
from
dub to trip-hop and house, and all working well within the song's
framework.
Original and highly innovative. (LD)
BLUES & SOUL Feb.'98 issue 758
Performance VOICE CHOICES, Village Voice
May 21, 1996
SURF REALITY
Martha Cinader & Po'azz Yo'azz
Whether debunking loser men or rejoicing in " Living It", poet Martha
Cinader
takes you over continents and through waterways to open third eye
chakras
with sexy rhythms. Cinader and bassist /toymeister Sabine Worthmann
—
collaboraters at last year's Edinburgh Festival—rework this hour-long
program of urban poetry and storytelling, unearthing secrets from
inside
Amsterdam cafes to the floor of the Atlantic.
VOICE CHOICES, Village Voice,
December 13, 1994
University of the Streets
Po'azz Yo'azz
The Listen and Be Heard series mixes acid jazz (The Liquid Sound
Lounge
provided by WBAI DJ Jeannie Hopper) with spoken word (hosted by
poet
Martha Cinader) in a campaign to free your mind and your ass
simultaneously. (McDonnell)
DREAMSCAPE - Edinburgh, Scotland Poetry and jazz have been
blowing up a
storm together since Allen Ginsberg and beyond. These days spoken
word
albums have become commonplace. Storyteller Martha Cinader and
double
bassist Sabine Worthmann aren't as confrontational as latterday
noiseniks,
coming on instead like a hip beatnik Sesame Street for grown-ups.
Cinader is
cool, sensual and assured as she translates myth into sexually
evocative oral
glimpses into the lives of forgotten icons of the feminine and feminist
persuasion. Alongside this are raps by Lenny Bruce contemporary
Lord
Buckley and an improvised baass solo to die for. With four different
programmes to choose from, you're bound to dig something. Neil
Coooper,
The List
To the deep, soothing accompaniment of an inventive double bass
score, New
Yorker Martha Cinader tells tales of exceptional people in a lyrical,
jazzy style
that is just right for this morning slot. Her stories vary from day to day,
but
you might catch the one about Emperor Nero, here transformed into a
"fat cat
with some bread who gets his kicks outa crucifyin'Christian brothers";
or hear
how Queen Boadicea refused to take those Romans lying down..."she
was
bad, know what I mean, and she couldn't be any other way". Skipping
a few
centuries, Cinader moves on to tell how one green George Orwell got
himself
tangled up in the Spanish Civil War..."in Barcelona he found there was
no first
class, no second class, no any kinda class-now, that, that was a
situation
worth fightin' for."
The poem-narratives are not hugely momentous in themselves; in fact
they
tend to be inconclusive, and only very loosely linked by the idea that
their
subjects were"living it" to the full. But Cinader's use of language is so
seductive and her rhythmic, rapping voice so carressing, that you
really don't
want her to stop. Catherine Fellows - The Scotsman
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