Editorial Reviews B. and Fully didn't have to sway Heather, restless and on the lookout for a fresh sonic venture into checking out the electronic music project they had been working on. A few weeks later the trio met at B's home studio, resulting in the hauntingly beautiful track "Frail" and what would become many evenings spent writing and recording the album, "reco mended". Official band roles were mutable, defining themselves per track, with everyone writing parts for each other as well as themselves. For Karmacoda, creating "reco mended" was like crafting a cool art project. It is much more about reflecting a certain time and space in life than being concerned with commerce. Expressing very human issues through very processed sound is what Karmacoda does best. The perfect aural escape from our ultra-commercialized planet.
About the Artist
It was a simple objective, really. Karmacoda began as a collective effort between three musicians in search of something new. That something started while Brett "B." Crockett, Bruce "Fully" Fulford and Heather Pierce were chatting over drinks in a San Francisco tiki bar, and realized their mutual trip hop/drum 'n bass obsession.
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From the opening track of Karmacoda's debut release Reco mended it's obvious that the listener is about to be taken someplace new. On Reco mended, Karmacoda uses organic and processed sounds and twists them into something never before heard while at the same time matching them with superb vocals that are at once soulful, haunting and beautiful. Karmacoda's genre melting music combines the most compelling aspects of electronic, trip-hop, pop and rock to offer up sonically addictive tracks that are drenched with emotion.
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ASIN: B00005BIAM Release Date: 2001-05-01 |
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Album Description
From the opening track of Karmacoda's debut release Reco mended it's obvious that the listener is about to be taken someplace new. On Reco mended, Karmacoda uses organic and processed sounds and twists them into something never before heard while at the same time matching them with superb vocals that are at once soulful, haunting and beautiful. Karmacoda's genre melting music combines the most compelling aspects of electronic, trip-hop, pop and rock to offer up sonically addictive tracks that are drenched with emotion.Customer Reviews:
Electronic beat generation.......2003-05-03
On Recomended Karmacoda adds a kind of ambience throughout, either through the mixing of male and female vocals, the use of light piano, or other effects. Both singers have amazing voices, and the way they mingle or trade off in songs makes these tracks quite impressive.
It's the little things that make them stand out from their contemporaries. The almost ambient-sounding piano that trickles throughout the mellow trip-hop of "Motion Picture" gives the song an almost otherworldly feel. There's almost an electronic world-beat feel to the ultra-cool instrumental "Amsterdam Room," which does have a European feel, and the dreamy, swirling, playful pop feel to "En Passing" makes it one of my favorite songs here. The closing "After That, Because of That" picks up on the same feel, with layered drum effects, vocals, and a very thick sound to give it a very unique and slick quality.
Some tracks that Heather Pierce sings on tend to be most similar to Laika tracks, as her voice sounds very similar to Laika's Margaret Fiedler.
There are enough unique flares - usually through some intriguing electronic sounds - to keep this from sounding too derivative. And the voices, the attitude, the atmospherics are beautiful. By the end of this album, I'm was completely sold. This is music for the electronic beat generation.
Trip hop at it's finest.......2003-05-03
carbon copy.......2002-10-02
Splendid!.......2002-03-28
Because of the clean production and mid-tempo grinds, this album begs for radio play. This radio readiness, however, will probably put off some of the snootier listeners, for whom airplay is a sin far worse than mere poor quality. This is a shame, because the disc is nothing more than well-crafted, well-executed music -- not a desperate grab for stardom. True, it may lack the ugly edge of "underground" dance music, but this doesn't nullify the boundaries the band pushes. This is particularly evident in their choice of percussion sounds. Rather than relying on the standard drum machine presets, the trio turns these tasks over to a cornucopia of squishy and unusual sounds. Thus, while the mood evoked by the rhythms will be familiar to anyone who was alive during the '80s, the execution is something not found in most radio playlists. For this reason, the band's inventiveness may be lost in the immediate pleasantries of their music. Nevertheless, Reco Mended is an album packed with surprises as well as grooves.
Good Karma all around.......2001-07-30
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