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Artist:	MINERVA, MARIA
Title:	Sacred & Profane Love
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	12"
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SILK 013EP

The best 100% Silk release of the year: a mini-album/EP housed in a gold-foil stamped LP jacket. "Producer and chanteuse (and fashion icon and social satirist and heartbreaker) Maria Minerva is the groove-gift that keeps on shimmy-givin.' Her forth effort this year -- after the wildly weird, how-low-fi-can-you-cry Tallinn At Dawn, the boy-you-turn-me upside down disco EP Noble Savage, AND the salty sweet gauze-ahh strip tease Cabaret Cixous -- comes just in time for Santa, baby. Sacred and Profane Love wraps it up with a bow: drugged-out drag choruses, saucy pans, lines of echo-coke, head-trippy candy flips, layered bangs, crooked hooks, top forty flirting, pop weaseling, sand dune sparkle, dream reels. With a wily wink Minerva serves allusions to the other gay nineties, reminding one of a Post-era Bjork or a 'Sampladelic' Lady Miss Kier or a 'Deeper and Deeper' Madonna. Sensual in every sense of the word. Maria Minerva just turned it up, so you better bring your M game."

Artist:	MINERVA, MARIA
Title:	Cabaret Cixous
Label:	NOT NOT FUN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	NNF 240LP

LP version. "Estonian Euro-beat enchantress Maria Juur aka Maria Minerva has had a lively 2011 already -- releasing a chic suite of glamour-pop abstractions via her debut, Tallinn At Dawn, as well as a sultry, sideways bedroom disco EP (Noble Savage) on 100% Silk. But time is money and money talks (or something) so rather than let a hot streak go cold Ms. Maria has crafted a fresh 11-song dream ride down fascination street, which we're pumped and proud to unveil: Cabaret Cixous. Apparently there's a tradition/inside joke amongst a fringe strain of Estonian bands where you have to name yr album something with 'cabaret' in the title, but regardless of one's knowledge of this micro-custom, Cab Cixous is a gorgeous, gauzy thrill, slip-streaming from cracked-crystal karaoke pop singles ('These Days,' 'Ruff Trade,' 'Soo High') to slow-motion synth-washed ballads ('Lovecool,' 'Spiral') to radical miscellzanies (the alien soundsystem banger, 'Laulan Paikse Kaes,' a cellphone-fidelity Abba cover, etc) and beyond. A beautiful, bizarre record, full of the weird vision and hazed-out soulfulness that's everything we love about music." Includes glossy one-sided color insert.

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