September 11, 2012 | Posted in Review | Tagged cities and eyes
Made of rugged digital fragmentation, melancholy acoustic bursts, and an intense voice, wavering between blues and jazz drives / avant.
March 17, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged cities and eyes
This duet is a shock. More than a duet it is like an innumerable ant hill of musical creatures
February 19, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged andrea parkins, cities and eyes, jessica constable
A multitude of sounds lie brooding beneath the ashes of “Cities and Eyes”.
February 9, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged cities and eyes, the skein
Sembrerebbe che la musica al femminile si presenti gentile e delicata, ed invece no, il duo The Skein, composto dalla vocalista inglese Jessica Constable e dall´americana Andrea Parkins alla fisarmonica elettrica e strumentazioni elettroniche, fa subito pulizia con questo pregiudizio. …
February 9, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged cities and eyes, the skein
I was surprised by the wealth of evocative and expressive sounds that this fine duo pulls off. Jessica seems to be singing in some strange invented language (when she is not singing in English) while Andrea adds layers of kaleidoscopic electronic sounds that are forever in flux.
February 9, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged cities and eyes, the skein
They fill me with joy because the many ways they hop from one matter to another seem natural, they discover without effort new paths that close back after them as it always happens with enchantresses.
February 9, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged andrea parkins, cities and eyes, jessica constable, the skein
...deliciously unpredictable...Cities And Eyes is a thrilling ride; get on board.
February 19, 2009 | Posted in Review | Tagged cities and eyes
Cities and Eyes is music in the broadest sense, made for a specific, not generalized audience, evoking the stark nakedness of metropolitan rat race life. At once industrial, futuristic, and multi-cultural, it represents musique concrète performance art taken to the extreme.