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Recent Type signing Melissa Agate with a mix of avant jazz, fractured electronics and beautiful melodic flourishes. What a perfect taster for her forthcoming album 'Sentimentalist'
Adelaide born London resident Melissa Agate aka Sanso-Xtro came to our attention through a beautifully packaged 6 track cd. The contents revealed a perfect mixture of accoustic instruments and fragile digital manipulations and we were instantly hooked. Having been a member of a number of succesful bands playing drums and guitar she is no stranger to the music scene, but this music is probably her most personal work.
She regards herself as primarily a drummer, but can play a variety of instruments very adeptly, including the all-important laptop. This versatility and musicianship makes Melissa's music impossible to resist, and gives it a depth and sincerity so many lack.

00:00 Garvey's Ghost - Max Roach (Percussion Bittersweet)
07:46 Aurora - bjork / opiate version (Pagan poetry Single)
11:46 Revolt Lover - Pierre Bastien (mecanoid)
15:42 Stamping Ground - Moondog (1969)
18:09 Aero Deck - Oval (systemisch)
21:43 Drum Mode - Gray featuring jean-michel basquiat (ANTI NY)
29:04 42 - leafcutter john (The Housebound Spirit)
29:42 Some summers they drop like flys - Dirty Three (whatever you love, you
are)
35:58 #2 - Ensemble (sketch proposals)
36:55 Taisho - On Fillmore (sleeps with fishes)
44:41 srain - Opiate (while you were sleeping)
49:15 di do - sigur ros (ba ba ti ki di do)
54:44 agni - Takagi Masakatsu (pia)
