2002, publication of the Cd "Madame le Ted" under the pseudonym Ted Minsky by the Austrian Label "Angelika Köhlermann".
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Review by Elizabeth Wells:
Epic, avant-garde, flamboyant. all these epithets and more describe the extraordinary journey ted minsky offers the listener on this debut album. and it is no wonder, as ted minksy is a young costume designer with an eye for the (new) romantic, and as the press release suggests, these songs sound as though they have been fashioned from velvet with an eye for the next david lynch soundtrack. miss minsky (real name unspecified - i have a suspicion it is the alter-ego of mr minsky himself) is the multi-talented vocalist on these songs; multi-talented because she sings in english, german and spanish (though her lyrics sound obscure in all three!) she launches straight into a spine-chilling goosebump of a track, with piercing distorted vocals punctuated by swirling psychedelic effects (and barking dogs a la the orb) and thus sets the tone for the album, which is by turns spooky, dissonant and art house in its approach to composition. in other works it makes for uneasy listening, having less in common with pop than a distorted digital take on german music hall and vaudeville. 'touch no new' offsets its big band drums with haunting shimmering signal processing, and thus manages to unite the sound of the 30s and 40s with the 21st century. elsewhere harpsichords give an elegantly baroque sound ('rosy wrong cards'), then just when you think you've worked out where ted minsky's going with this, he gets all shakespeare's sister on us, with the dark clash of rock guitars on the gothic 'in mir' or the neo-electro rock of 'c'est fatal'. certainly this album is bursting with ideas, and he manages to bring off the clash of styles with customary flair. i look forward to hearing more from this enigmatic madame who sounds as if she was born to drape red velvet around a dirty rock stage with a cigarette (in holder, naturellement) in one hand and a sweaty mic in the other. (www. absorb.org, 2002)
Here you can by it!
Review by Elizabeth Wells:
Epic, avant-garde, flamboyant. all these epithets and more describe the extraordinary journey ted minsky offers the listener on this debut album. and it is no wonder, as ted minksy is a young costume designer with an eye for the (new) romantic, and as the press release suggests, these songs sound as though they have been fashioned from velvet with an eye for the next david lynch soundtrack. miss minsky (real name unspecified - i have a suspicion it is the alter-ego of mr minsky himself) is the multi-talented vocalist on these songs; multi-talented because she sings in english, german and spanish (though her lyrics sound obscure in all three!) she launches straight into a spine-chilling goosebump of a track, with piercing distorted vocals punctuated by swirling psychedelic effects (and barking dogs a la the orb) and thus sets the tone for the album, which is by turns spooky, dissonant and art house in its approach to composition. in other works it makes for uneasy listening, having less in common with pop than a distorted digital take on german music hall and vaudeville. 'touch no new' offsets its big band drums with haunting shimmering signal processing, and thus manages to unite the sound of the 30s and 40s with the 21st century. elsewhere harpsichords give an elegantly baroque sound ('rosy wrong cards'), then just when you think you've worked out where ted minsky's going with this, he gets all shakespeare's sister on us, with the dark clash of rock guitars on the gothic 'in mir' or the neo-electro rock of 'c'est fatal'. certainly this album is bursting with ideas, and he manages to bring off the clash of styles with customary flair. i look forward to hearing more from this enigmatic madame who sounds as if she was born to drape red velvet around a dirty rock stage with a cigarette (in holder, naturellement) in one hand and a sweaty mic in the other. (www. absorb.org, 2002)
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