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"... "Elephant Decision" is Dead Air's equivalent of "Walk on the Wild Side", while the retro-futurist mode of "Electrical Heart" resembles early Human League fronted by Patti Smith..."
3/4 Stars -- The Independent -- Andy Gill
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"The New York-based Rainy Orteca is part of Joan as Police Woman, and boasts work with, among others, Antony and the Johnsons, Rufus Wainwright and Lou Reed on her CV. Her alias is inspired by the times she failed to turn up for a radio show she presented. Aptly, there is something of the late-night, into-the-ether confidence about her debut album, its part-spoken vocals conveying a jadedness that evokes the small hours perfectly. The scatter-gun delivery, trash aesthetic and electro-analogue tension that course through songs such as Elephant Decision and Forever conjure up vividly the mid- to late1970s New York of Reed, Patti Smith and Television. Her birth certificate insists Orteca wasn’t there herself; Dead Air suggests otherwise."
3/4 Stars -- The Sunday Times -- Dan Cairns
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"Rainy Orteca is probably best known to lovers of less mainstream music as the bassist from Joan as Police Woman, where she also plays second fiddle to frontwoman Joan Wasser, former squeeze of Jeff Buckley. By contrast, Orteca’s debut solo EP, Dead Air, sees her play everything herself – bass, guitar, synthesizer – as well as providing beats and vocals. Dead Air is a breath of fresh air compared with her Police Woman output and undeniably accomplished, if not arresting, with strummy harmonies abandoned in favour of trendy electronics and Orteca’s breathy, whispered vocals. Dead Air most comes to life on the soaring “Widdow” (sic) and the down-and-dirty “Electrical Heart”. But with only six tracks at three minutes apiece, it’s all over before you’ve even drawn breath."
3 Stars -- GQ.COM -- Jamie Millar
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Rainy Orteca is best known as the bassist from Joan As Police Woman. However, having worked alongside artists such as Lou Reed and Anthony & The Johnsons, she’s clearly a talented artist in her own right. Touring as a one-woman band, her new solo project - Dead Air - is an intriguing affair. The debut material is tantalisingly limited; a self titled mini-album released on the gloriously independent UK-based label Reveal Records. The songs are abstract slices of electro-based noise, made up of cleverly layered beats and warm, synthetic frequencies, with a steady variety of lo-fi guitar licks and basslines, and just the right amount of gentle, lulling distortion.
Orteca’s stage presence cuts a mysterious figure. A pale elfin face with dark eyes and jet black hair, she sports a dark suit and tie, and is equipped with just a laptop and microphone. While the instrumental sounds are creative and fresh, the power of her music lies in its lyrical content and delivery. Her singing voice is neither pretty nor conventional, and has a strangely entrancing quality.
A collage of whispers, sighs, melodies and spoken word, Dead Air is as much poetry as music. In fact, the lyrics are reminiscent of both the Beat poets and the New York early Velvet Underground New York - full of dreamy, non-linear images and a drugged, euphoric intensity. Standout tracks are ‘Tin Drum’, a slow, almost trip-hop lullaby, and the uptempo, spoken-word rocker ‘Electric Heart’, a sleazy, electronic stream-of-consciousness ecstasy trip.
Lets hope the future brings more Dead Air - six tracks is just not enough…
Charlotte Richardson Andrews
UK release date: 28/04/08
wears the trousers magazine -- Charlotte Richardson Andrews
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"...Dead Air at their most melodic yet maintaining that darkly brooding edge; Orteca singing in a sugar sweet swoon whilst foreboding beats and industrial electro noise rumble ominously in the background. A delicately pitched, darkly intoxicating debut from Dead Air, this is a record that expertly balances its mood between darkness and light; Rainy Orteca a singer, songwriter and musician capable of the truly mesmerising."
Self-taught guitarist and general purveyor of musical excellence, Rainy Orteca comes to the fore with a frankly intimidating musical CV; previously working with such visionaries as Antony & the Johnsons, Lou Reed, Joan As Police Woman, Lloyd Cole, and now just herself under the state-of-the-art DIY guise of Dead Air.
Deftly diffused between atmospheric filmic ballads, and sonorous electronica…’Dead Air’ is a profoundly startling collection of charmingly abstract digital diorama and wanton storytelling from another time and place - all gently cloaked with a voice that will make you come undone.
Mixed by Josh Hager and Dead Air. Written, produced, engineered, inhabited, loved, hated and performed by Rainy Orteca. Breathe in the Dead Air...
D E A D . A I R . M I N I . A L B U M . O U T . N O W ! !
Available at Amazon, itunes and Reveal Records.
for more information please contact:
Tom Rose
tomreveal@mac.com
REVEAL RECORDS
PO BOX 7535, Derby, DE1 0NF
United Kingdom
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