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CD: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nona Hendryx - Skindiver [P]1989</span><br />
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<pre class="nfo">01. Off the Coast of Love [0:04:33.20]
02. Women Who Fly [0:05:13.10]
03. No Emotion [0:05:30.05]
04. Love is Kind [0:03:39.48]
05. Tears [0:04:33.72]
06. Skin Diver [0:05:09.45]
07. 6th Sense [0:06:01.53]
08. Through the Wire [0:04:45.10]
09. Interior Voices [0:04:49.60]
10. New Desire [0:05:07.57]</pre><br />
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# Audio CD (June 28, 1989)<br />
# Original Release Date: July 1989<br />
# Number of Discs: 1<br />
# Label: Private Music<br />
# ASIN: B000008GI6<br />
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Ms. Hendryx made quite a departure with the album 'Skindiver'. Her past albums have been more R&B, dance based but she really hit <br />
her stride with this album.<br />
Starting with Nona's vocals, she is so powerful without being overwrought or oversung. She has a husky, haunting voice that can <br />
still send shivers down my spine especially in the song '6th Sense' when she sings the final line "does anybody care".<br />
The songs are a bit too electronic sounding for today's standards but that is a minor criticism. Lyrically, the songs are deep <br />
and meaningful and intelligently written. 'Through the Wire' can still bring a lump to my throat with the sample of Martin Luther <br />
King at the beginning (one of my favourite all time songs). The songs can be uplifting (women who fly), tribal (skindiver) and <br />
haunting (no emotion, 6th sense).<br />
Not for the mainstream, though a rewarding listen to those open to meaningful, unique music performed by one of the best in the <br />
business.<br />
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For the record, I didn't know who Nona Hendryx was or where she came from, found the music and video for the title track bizarre, <br />
and Nona kind of scary - at first. To clear the record, it was her fearlessness and the brutal honesty of her voice that intimidated <br />
me 15 years ago, and a friend (thankfully) reintroduced this album to me several years later.<br />
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"Skindiver" is, for me, a personal journey through the various stages, and resultant upheavals, of love in its many manifestations - <br />
from the yearning 'Off The Coast Of Love' (The Master - is love, according to Nona), to her cry for help '6th Sense' ("Can anybody <br />
feel me/ Does anybody care") to empiric rebirth in 'New Desire' ("I'm tenderly falling/ Into your arms, Catch me I'm falling"). <br />
'Women Who Fly' and 'No Emotion' stand out for their sheer intensity and contrasting styles - the former's percussion driven inner <br />
dialogue versus the latter's guitar grinding highs and synthesized mellows exploring the divide people face at the end of bad <br />
relationships and wasted lives.<br />
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The inarguable gem of this collection, however, is 'Through The Wire'. The ethereal quality of the music alone is stunning. <br />
Interwoven with Nona's deft vocal stylings that are, in a word, breathtaking on every other track for their sheer emotional <br />
clarity, and you have a masterpiece that, in my humble opinion, I cannot imagine any other artist performing.<br />
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I recommend to anyone who loves music to give this album a spin and decide for themselves - personally, it's one of my favorites, <br />
and over the years just sounds better. I'm guessing it's because I get more out of Nona's lyrics, arrangements, sounds, etc. with <br />
the more experience I gather in life - how many CEs nowadays, let alone artists like Nona (who is very much like Prince in writing <br />
every song, and producing and performing the instruments for much of the album herself), can anyone say that about?
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