breathe

I wanted to post the full video for the song Breathe by Telepopmusik (featuring Angela McCluskey). There’s actually two versions of it, the one that plays in the Mitsubishi commercial (which is the one I’m posting) and the original version, found on Telepopmusik’s 2001 album “Genetic World.” The video for the version of that song is pretty rad itself and you can check that out HERE.

more about “Breathe“, posted with vodpod

it’s that time for sexy time

more about “it’s that time for sexy time“, posted with vodpod

There was some sort of fullness to the voice in that song in the woman parts trimmer commercial that I couldn’t get outta my head, so I went on a pre-easter egg hunt on the internets. It turns out that the voice belongs to Scottish singer Angela McCluskey.

After listening to her for a bit, I’d say she’s somewhere right between Nikka Costa and Macy Gray as far as vocal stylings are concerned. A sultrier version of Nikka and a crisper Macy Gray and right along the same neigborhood, musically speaking – the place where rock, soul and r&b meet.

She dropped her first solo “The Things We Do” back in 2004 and from the snippets it strikes me as a soulish rock album. She definitely has a rocky edge about her but I see her more as a soul/r&b singer set to downtempo beats, something along the lines of the track in the commercial, which btw, it seems like something for which it was exclusively created.

She is also much better known for her collaborations with the French group Telepopmusik. So much so, that chances are that you’ve heard her voice before.

okay, one comment. That track playing in the background is dope.