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"Indogo is Amanda Taylor, and one of the first things we learned about her was that she once appeared on 'Stars In Their Eyes'. Amid raised eyebrows, the temptation to recite 'tonight Matthew, I'm going to be ignoring your demo' was too great to resist. Wiser heads prevailed though, aided by the fact that Taylor's TV turn was in the guise of Hazel O'Connor, whose 'Breaking Glass' soundtrack is an object of some reverence round these parts. Though we didn't see the performance, it's easy to imagine her pulling it off, and well; her voice is liquid, slippery, impossible to pin down. One minute recalling Patti Smith, the next Alanis Morissette, in between she skips over the flavours of virtually every major female vocalist of the last fifty years - and that includes the jazz crowd. It's the way she uses that voice, more as an instrument than as a tool for delivering words. There's precious little real instrumentation to get in the way either, a few lacework beats, a skeletal melody recorded across a field, that's about it; it throws the focus squarely onto Taylor herself,and though I'm sure that she was singing about great, portentous subjects, I didn't hear a word - I was too busy swooning" .....cool!

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