Jeremy513 | 1 Apr 2003 22:18
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anyone know this artist? (some Jane content)

On the topic of other women to recommend, well, I can't personally recommend 
this artist but she sounds intriguing, as you'll see, so I'm wondering if 
anyone out there has heard her stuff. Her name is Juana Molina and I just 
learned of her from the email that NYC DJ Vin Scelsa sends out after his 
radio show every week (which out-of-towners like me can no longer hear 
because of the puzzling law that restricts web streams from containing more 
than two songs in a row from the same artist; a long story but not the point 
here). Anyway so it seems that a song by her as a result of having Alexi 
Murdoch as a guest on the show. Here's how Vin described her in the email 
(you'll see the Jane content here):

>Juana is from Argentina. Alexi turned us on to one of her songs, a
>personal favorite of his. Very beautiful. Kind of Jane Siberry-ish, if Jane
>was from South rather than North America. Alexi didn't know the title,
>just that it was from her third and most recent album, Tres Cosas.
>I found her web site, wrote to her and she supplied the title. The links
>on her web site are not functioning properly at the moment, so I couldn't
>get into her "store" to purchase her albums. But she offered to send them
>to me and is working on fixing the links. The one song was very intriguing;
>I'm anxious to hear more! And the home page of her web site is quite lovely.

The links still seem not to be working exactly right on the web site, but if 
you click around you can still see and hear a few things 
(www.juanamolina.com). I listened to a couple of songs, and she seems 
intriguing; I think I can hear a bit of what led him to compare her to Jane 
at least in the tone or timbre of her voice, though not so much in overall 
musical style. But I'm old-fashioned enough to have a hard time still really 
*hearing* stuff when it involves downloading and Windows Media Player and 
such. Still, there's a potential find here. Anyone know anything more about 
her?

Jeremy


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