Oh Vanille/Ova Nil

Oh Vanille/Ova Nil

Track Listings

1. All I Bring You Is Love

2. 1/2 a Million Miles from Home

3. Telepathic Desert

4. Easy to Be Around

5. Turnaround Road

6. Sandy Ree

7. Bones & Born Again

8. Petite Roses

9. Hold Together (Let Go If You Will)

10. Yr Million Sweetness

11. Wild Deer at Dawn

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Diane Cluck's hauntingly clear voice weaves melodies full of love and pain through her intentionally sparse arrangements of piano, acoustic guitar and harmonium. Perfect as they are, any additional instrumentation would be unnecessary adornments on these "skeleton" songs, as she calls them. Classical training and an obsession with Erik Satie have instilled a tasteful minimalism in Cluck's work. Until now, her recordings have been self-released, and even now, with this full-length on Important Records, Cluck has only allowed it to be issued in an edition of 500. As a result, this is the fourth installment in Important's Arts and Crafts series, featuring 11 tracks released in packaging handmade made by the artist. It is our hope that an unlimited edition can eventually be arranged.

Tracks:

All I Bring You Is Love
Half A Million Miles From Home
Telepathic Desert
Easy To Be Around
The Turnaround Road
Sandy Ree
Bones & Born Again
Petit Roses
Hold Together (Let Go If You Will)
Yr Million Sweetnesses
Wild Deer At Dawn

Album Description

Diane Cluck's hauntingly clear voice weaves melodies full of love and pain through her intentionally sparse arrangements of piano, acoustic guitar and harmonium. Perfect as they are, any additional instrumentation would be unnecessary adornments on these "skeleton" songs, as she calls them. Classical training and an obsession with Erik Satie have instilled a tasteful minimalism in Cluck's work. Until now, her recordings have been self-released, and even now, with this full-length on Important Records, Cluck has only allowed it to be issued in an edition of 500. As a result, this is the fourth installment in Important's Arts and Crafts series, featuring 11 tracks released in packaging handmade made by the artist. It is our hope that an unlimited edition can eventually be arranged.

Customer Reviews:

Peace, Love, & Diane.......2007-02-24

If you can appreciate Diane Cluck's 70's style, flower power voice - buy this album. I don't listen to her that often, cause you have to been in a weary ...somber... relaxing kind of mood to really enjoy it, but it is my favorite album when I am mellow enough to listen to it.

She harmonizes really well with her guitar and with her own voice when she sings her own back up vocals on a couple songs. The best example of this is on the track "Easy To Be Around." Well, I think it's just her on that track. Maybe it might be another girl... who knows and who cares, i'm still impressed.

Another thing, her lyrics are a little weird, like the:

"have I told you how I like to see a man submit to ecstasy, with all his inhibitions free, and moaning like his mother."

That's a line from 1/2 A Million Miles From Home. It's weird, but good in a poetic kind of way. I just haven't exactly figured out what she means by that, and because some of her lyrics are so odd, I don't show all my friends her stuff. Reason being, this album isn't for everyone.

But if you like Devendra Banhart, camp fires & marshmellows, this might be what you're looking for.

Excellent.......2005-06-15

What first caught my interest with this album was the cover art. Diane made it herself, from what I understand. Like the rest of the recording, it is elegant and weird. Devendra Banhart lauds Diane's lyrics, and they are overall beautiful and moody, like the tunes. Cluck plays the guitar wonderfully well, in such a layered, rich fashion that you want to listen to tracks over and over again to catch everything. "Have I told you how I like to see a man submit to ecstasy, will all his inhibitions free, and moaning like his mother?" she sings on one track, and it just gives you goosebumps. (What'd I tell you about the weird!) I can't choose a favorite song, but the last one, "Wild Deer at Dawn," is such a lovely close, it really makes your heartbeat as steady as the person's in the song. "Beat...beat...beat..." and it segues off into silence and you're just sitting there content. I can't recommend this recording enough, I will make all my friends buy it. It's simply too good to let fall beneath the cracks, and 500 copies is really too small a number, though it does make one feel special for having it. Thank you Diane for this marvellous work.

Breathtaking minimalist folk.......2005-04-17

Perhaps it's not fair to review a studio album, not having seen a songwriter who's supposed to be defined by her live performances. But folks who fell in love with "Macy's Day Bird" will fall all over themselves for her Important Records debut. No extra instruments or layered tracks here, though we do get some voice-over harmonies on three or four of the songs. What we get instead is the unadulterated essence of Diane Cluck's remarkable voice, and some of the best writing you'll find these days. I privately give this five stars, and consider it in the running for best relesae of 2005, but its minimalist, semi-lo-fi nature might be off-putting for those used to 24 tracks of production in everything they throw in their ears. Consequently, the four stars represents the tiniest "caveat emptor," but if you don't get what's going on here, it's your loss. An insanely beautiful album.

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