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EVERYONE'S GONE TO THE MOON
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Although I really don't do covers, I thought this was a good choice for one to try as it was one of my dad's favorites. So except for the key change and a few other touches, I kept pretty close to the original arrangement. And it is a beautiful song. - CM
WHAT IT SEEMED
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Interplanetary accompaniment provided by the Mars Rover "Perseverance". Thank you NASA!!
BY A STRING
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THE SHALLOW TIDE
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One year after her resplendent debut Nowhere and No When, the ever-mysterious Ms. Messier (in sensuous recordings as well as her emergence seemingly from the ether) has come up with her best track to date, somehow in one song combining wind-swept vistas, desert southwest train-worn ambience, spaghetti-western weariness, and gentle Hawaiian breezes underneath her seriously sonorous pipes - so silky it's like a modern Nancy not waiting for Lee. But do we drink aged whiskey or mai tais while listening? Better order both to be safe... - Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover
'NOWHERE AND NO WHEN'
The first release from Carina Messier.
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Carina Messier was born and raised near Brussels, Belgium within an artistic family. Both parents were painters and sculptors of some regional reputation. But, it was a beloved uncle who played clarinet in local dance bands who introduced her to music.
As Carina entered her teens, the Messier family moved to Montreal. It was there where she began teaching herself guitar and keyboards, while also developing deep interests in astronomy, physics, science fiction and graphics.
In 2018 Carina moved to West Hollywood and started assembling her small home studio in which she expands her musical experiments. She writes and records songs that blend her various extra-musical interests tinged with unique musical inflections from her homeland. This EP is Carina’s first release.
Carina loves to spend time at the Griffith Observatory when she is not creating in her studio.
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Who’s that lady? Her CD arrived with a scant bio, but handed a garden of earthly delights this lovely, a reviewer wishes to know more. Good luck finding anything on the net, though! It’s like she’s never existed, but her mellifluous music sure does!
N&NW is full of lithe, resplendent, sonic sweets skirting the limits of every lick of beautiful noise, from ’60s soundtracks, to Mazzy Star-ish Roback guitar, to chamber organ pop, to something akin to Ivy. It feels like riding in a sleek car through the Mojave, retracing Hunter Thompson’s steps from L.A. to Vegas, the top down, and the cacti/brush glimmering in peaceful moonlight.
Messier’s an angel of a singer too, alighting with light touch upon her becoming background beds. Apparently, she lives in L.A., post-Brussels, Belgium upbringing and a Montreal pitstop, and holds a yen for space (likely loving the Carina Constellation, and 1730-1817 French Astronomer Charles Messier’s catalog of faint star clusters and nebulae objects!). Her music evokes that “final frontier” and it’s gorgeous. -- Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover