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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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"...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
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REVEAL RECORDS
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Dear Rainy, you're still in my heart but I can't follow you during Joan italian tour:((( I have to stay here as I won't have some holidays 'till September. how are you?I love your EP and wish I ca meet you soon again,maybe during winter. hugs***
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Ew yes, a rather refined presentation from our intrepid songstress. I shall soon light a bonfire with my horrifying wild woodswoman wardrobe, leave the beasts for a spell and join you in the city for some delicate cuisine and indelicate conversation...
