Monday, December 20, 2010
From The Techno-Human Divide
Today's song is the buoyant but on-edge 'Her Rotating Head' by New Zealand's one-woman band Bachelorette, the brainchild of Annabel Alpers. Bachelorette makes lush, eerie synthpop reminiscent of early Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark... Alpers is 'fascinated with the mercurial relationship between technology and human connection.' 'Rotating Head' is a swirl of cascading harmonies and a lyrical indictment of how society demoralizes women: “Do whatever you want to her/ And she likes it that way/ She’s programmed to say/ ‘Objectify me’/ ‘Degrade and revile me.’ ’’ All this as pretty synths percolating along...
Easily distracted by cities, Alpers records her songs in the solitude of the woods, in a remote shack far, far from the technology that fuels her songwriting. Alpers studied music composition at university earlier in the decade, simply to have access to cutting-edge recording software she herself could not afford.
Here's the clever 'Rotating Head' clip...
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