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Christina Rosenvinge

Biography | Releases

Biography

Madrid-born, Danish-descended singer Christina Rosenvinge owns one of the more singular careers in pop music. She spent the 1980s as a bona fide star in the Latin-speaking world, selling out stadiums and a boatload of records as half of the duo Alex Y Christina. By the early 90s, weary of the endless media maelstrom, increasingly disillusioned by the stifling creative confines of the mass market, and newly inspired by the more personal, idiosyncratic work of songwriters such as Leonard Cohen, she began to write, with an increasing deftness and dedication, songs in her own voice, and closer to her heart.

Eventually splitting with Alex, she recorded a trio of albums for WEA Latin America, each more spohisticated than its predecessor, exploring a wide range of musical motifs and lyrical themes. Sessions for the last of the three, 1996's Cerrado, took place at Echo Canyon, Sonic Youth's just-completed Manhattan studios, with SY guitarist Lee Ranaldo producing and members of Two Dollar Guitar providing backing.

Her next visit to New York found her contributing to Two Dollar Guitar's 1999 album Weak Beats and Lame-ass Rhymes. By now smitten with the city and the possibility of working with a clean artistic slate, she subsequently moved there, and began performing locally with Two Dollar Guitar as her backing group. Work began on Frozen Pool the following year -- her first SLR release would also be her first US and English-language release, and go on to garner both critical accolades and an entirely new, hard-earned fanbase, built upon her own unique talents. Since then she has toured the US and Europe, supported artists such as Elliott Smith and Stereolab, and played festivals including South By Southwest, CMJ Music Marathon, and All Tomorrow's Parties.

Christina is currently back in Spain preparing for the release of her latest project, a book-and-record set, songs for which were recorded over the past year, again at Echo Canyon and featuring members of Sonic Youth and Two Dollar Guitar.

Releases

Continental 62
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Christina’s third release with smells like records. Recorded in Madrid and NYC w/ Jeremy Wilms, Steve Shelley, Lee Ranaldo, Tim Foljhan and Charlie Bautista. 10 songs featuring ‘A Liar to Love'

Foreign Land
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1. Off Screen
2. 36
3. King Size
4. Dream Room
5. Submission
6. Lost in D
7. German Heart
8. As The Stranger Talks

Spanish-Danish chanteuse Christina Rosenvinge's sophomore Smells Like Records release. Recorded in New York City at Sonic Youth’s Echo Canyon Studio and the Magic Shop, she again enlisted the help of Steve Shelley and Lee Ranaldo, (both of Sonic Youth) and Tim Foljahn (Two Dollar Guitar) and added the bass playing of Jeremy Wilms and guitar and voice of Smokey Hormel (Beck, Tom Waits). The album also benefits from a collaboration with the Soldier String Quartet. Soaked in sweet melancholy, "King Size" and "Submission" (equal parts Gainsbourg and the VU) should become classic cuts, as should conceptual experiments such as the claustrophobic "German Heart" (Neubauten fronted by Brigitte Fontaine), which stretches itself into a sharp lamento. The mesmerizing "Lost in D" plays with both the note and letter "d" to create a kind of neo-waltz, and still other surprises await in "Dream Room", with its angelic girlie choir drowned in a dark undersea cave, or "Off Screen", which could've been lyrically culled from some unfilmed Truffaut screenplay, with a soundtrack to match.

Frozen Pool
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1. Hunter's Lullaby
2. Expensive Shoes
3. White Ape
4. Frozen Pool
5. Taking Off
6. Muertos o algo Mejor
7. As the Wind Blows
8. Green Room
9. Glue
10. Seems So Long Ago, Nancy

Matching fragile, ethereal vocals with subtly sophisticated songwriting, Frozen Pool finds inspiration in the cream of the Continental pop crop, particularly '60s chanteuse Françoise Hardy, and weds those ideals to Christina's own sublimely somnambulent folk-based sound. The aching opener Hunter's Lullaby recalls like Bjork fronting a less reverb-damamaged Mazzy Star; other highlightsinclude the jousting, Jobim-meets-Johnny Marr chord changes of Expensive Shoes, covers of the Two Dollar Guitar songs White Ape and Green Room, the lazy lyricism of Glue, and a superlative take on Leonard Cohen's Seems So Long Ago, Nancy.

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