Baskaru 
Laura Gibson and Ethan Rose : Bridge Carols (US,2010)****
Sound artist Ethan Rose and folk/rockish singer-songwriter Laura Gibson started to cooperate and melt their talents into more than just the sum of both. Laura’s near broken voice has this humanly beautiful attractiveness, which in this case become also an instrument of sound on a human level, by adding occasional layers and by using an electric effect on her voice here and there, beside a general song approach. Ethan Rose’s backgrounds uses (wobbling) keyboards, guitars, delays, accordion, trumpet, glockenspiel and environmental and prepared sounds, organised in appearing waves of layers, in a way it becomes like the perfect landscape for the singing, with some interaction of being with the voice which is becoming more one with that landscape. This approach comes closer to that of The Use Of Ashes. On “Introduction” Laura’s voice has ethereal overdubs, iron-like sounds, ambient piano, bass and droning tempura. It comes closer to the Indian-flavoured voice experiments of Amelia Cuni. An album with shear brilliance, an expression where expressions of lyricism share its form and with delightful sound stories. Recommended !
I have read the duo also used ukelin (mixture of ukulele and violin, which looks like a sort of bowed dulcimer), ukuleles kalimbas, melodica, harmonica, a toy piano.
