The Photographer's Wife • Stina Nordenstam & Anton Fier

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Browsing in the aptly named Cheapo cheapo Records in the soundtrack section (I'm not really a soundtrack fan). This intriguing cover, with what looks like a still from the thirties film, begged further investigation. I thought the music Gods were guiding me when I found Anton Fier & Stina Nordenstam as the main performers and Laswell was on bass duties too.
I've read of a personal falling out between Fier & Nordenstam on this project, which probably amounts to there only being three tracks in existence. A planned Golden Palominos album, I'm guessing may have been in the works. Another strange thing about these three tracks is that they are credited as remixes, the original tracks have never been released in fact the film itself was never released. An imdb search shows an unrelated film with the same title and to confuse matters more, on the Stina Nordenstam website the "The Things You Said" maybe miss titled [?] "The Photographer's Wife" or there are two versions of this release, but more likely part of the Fier & Nordenstam spat (eventhough a rogue fourth track would be nice).
The only film credits on the cover are of Director of Photography Eric Rondepierre and Art Direction by Ricky/F+.
The music sounds like later Golden Palominos releases, ambient electronica,
Stina Nordenstam's fragile fractured vocal sits perfectly. I also like Knox Chandler's minimalist guitar parts too.

Stylo


1. I Could Still (Be An Actor)
(Microman remix)

2. Now When I See You
(Descendence remix)

3. The Things You Said
(Descendence remix)


Stina Nordenstam • Vocals
Knox Chandler • Guitars
Bill Laswell • Bass
Anton Fier • Drums

Recorded September 1995 at Greenpoint Studio / Brooklyn N.Y.


Produced by Anton Fier
and Stina Nordenstam 

 

Label: EastWest – EW055CD
Format: 320
Country: UK
Released: 1996
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, PW_stylo350s,Downtempo 

 

 

 

The Golden Palominos • Dead Outside

 

In 1997, The Palominos released another EP, named 'Dead Outside' five remixes of tracks from their album Dead Inside. It was offered exclusively for download from the official Golden Palominos website and Nicole Blackman's website (both now defunct) from October 15, 1997 to November 15, 1997.

  1.  Victim: The Last Thing (Sean Beavan.John Van Eaton remix)
  2.  Ride: Pragmatic Spasmatic (Raymond Watts remix)
  3.  Belfast: Empty As Wire (Scanner remix)
  4.  Ride (Mark Walk remix)
  5.  Victim: Interference (John Van Eaton remix) 

Nicole Blackman

Anil: The group briefly made an accompanying remix album, Dead Outside, available for free online. Why did you take that approach to releasing it?

Nicole: Because a lot of the remixes that we got were done by friends of mine and by artists who just wanted to do it because they loved it. Raymond Watts from KMFDM and Pig did a remix. Chris Randall from Sister Machine Gun did one. So did Sean Beavan, who's done all of the Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson work. Scanner did one, John van Eaton did two. So, basically those all came in for nothing and Restless said "Well, we're gonna pay Mark Walk from Ruby and maybe one or two other people to do them and there's going to be a club remix and a radio remix." And what came in was very disappointing to everyone. So, I think Restless at this point was like "Aww, forget it. We're just not going to do anything with them." So, Anton and I said "Well, we've got all these remixes for nothing, we might as well just put them up on the Internet and just let everyone download them for free." So, if you see a press release from Restless saying "Restless pushes the envelope by debuting the first remix EP on the Internet," it's a scam. [laughs]

The Golden Palominos
Control and Resolution
by Anil Prasad

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Label: Restless Records – none
Format: 5 x File, MP3
Country: US
Released: Oct 15, 1997
Genre: Electronic
Style: Trip Hop, Ambient

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