Essra Mohawk - Primordial Lovers MM
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Artist: Essra MohawkEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-01-01
Music Label: Rhino Handmade
Soundtracks:
- I Am the Breeze
- Spiral
- I'll Give It to You Anyway
- I Have Been Here Before
- Looking Forward to the Dawn
- Thunder in the Morning
- Lion on the Wing
- It's Up to Me
- It's Been a Beautiful Day
- Jabberwock Song
- Image of You
- New Skins for Old
- Openin' My Love Doors
- Full Fledged Woman
- You're Finally Here
- Summertime - Essra Mohawk, Gershwin, George
- Back in the Spirit
- You Make Me Come to Pieces
- I Cannot Forget
- Song to an Unborn Soul
- If I'm Going to Go Crazy With Someone, It Might As Well Be You
- Magic Pen
Music reviews of Primordial Lovers MM
Music Review: An amazing voice makes an overlooked classic
Rating: 5 Stars
When the brilliant Joe S. Harrington listed "Primordial Lovers" at #87 in his Top 100 Albums, I was curious in part because it was one of only a mere handful of female artists on the list, but also because the album had been out of print since before I was born and even when it became available as part of "Primordial Lovers MM" I had trouble obtaining it. After waiting for a copy to be sent to me by Rhino Handmade, I remarkably found a copy in a Melbourne record store for forty-five dollars and bought it instantly.
"Primordial Lovers MM" containing Essra Mohawk's self-titled third album as well as "Primordial Lovers" itself is a true classic owing to her unique voice, which was described by The MOJO Collection as "erotic". That is indeed a fitting description for a voice that must rank as one of the finest in any genre of music. One might compare it to Annie Haslam, but whereas Haslam could never develop any sign of anger, Essra Mohawk quite frequently does. Generally, though, her voice is deep but always extremely melodic. On such songs as "Lion on the Wing", "Full Fledged Woman" and "Summertime", Essra Mohawk truly wraps her voice around the song to make it a focal point in a manner no other singer can do. "I Have Been Here Before" with its airy, beautiful organ and piano, along with "It's Up To Me" and "It's Been A Beautiful Day", show a softer, yet amazingly natural and melodic, side to Essra Mohawk's voice, whilst the fiery "Thunder in the Morning" rocks in a manner few women ever have before or since and shows she could sing harder material without losing her remakrable vocal qualities.
"Spiral", the second track, shows Mohawk going into the purest ecstasy at the end in a manner predating a similar finale in Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" by fifteen years, whilst "Jabberwock Song", based on Lewis Carroll, is truly entrancing and mysterious like almost no other song so accessible and even catchy. Only the overlong "Looking Forward to the Dawn" disappoints on "Primordial Lovers", and whislt some of the songs on her self-titled release are not as memorable as one might like, the later songs on that album are really gorgeous, especially "I Cannot Forget".
If you can still find "Primordial Lovers MM" by a stroke of luck, consider yourself blessed. There is no voice like Essra Mohawk, and she has the songwriting to make for a wonderful listen.
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