Phil
04-10-2006, 11:06 AM
AS ONE of the guest vocalists on Zero 7's briefly voguish When It Falls album (that's her on Home and The Space Between), Danish songstress Tina Dico's chocolate-brown voice was the balm behind a million club come-downs. But on her own, with only an acoustic guitar for protection, she is cruelly exposed as a rootless talent in search of decent material.
Although she's scored a number one in her native Denmark, and won a Danish Grammy, that's no indication of her actual worth as an artist, since what Dico peddles is the kind of soporific, earnest coffee house blues which can be ignored completely in any Starbucks from Largs to Lagos.
Playing material from her new solo album In The Red Dico seemed nervous and unsure. She possesses a strong, rich voice, but her stodgy folk-blues consistently let her down.
A lack of memorable melodies and trite fortune cookie lyrics rendered her performance void, while her virtually non-existent stage presence hardly endeared her to a polite if unenthusiastic audience.
This article: http://living.scotsman.com/music.cfm?id=519772006
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Think Paul Whitelaw (reviewer) has just been removed from the Xmas card list. :confused:
Although she's scored a number one in her native Denmark, and won a Danish Grammy, that's no indication of her actual worth as an artist, since what Dico peddles is the kind of soporific, earnest coffee house blues which can be ignored completely in any Starbucks from Largs to Lagos.
Playing material from her new solo album In The Red Dico seemed nervous and unsure. She possesses a strong, rich voice, but her stodgy folk-blues consistently let her down.
A lack of memorable melodies and trite fortune cookie lyrics rendered her performance void, while her virtually non-existent stage presence hardly endeared her to a polite if unenthusiastic audience.
This article: http://living.scotsman.com/music.cfm?id=519772006
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Think Paul Whitelaw (reviewer) has just been removed from the Xmas card list. :confused: