Reviews 2005

[04 November 2005] Review of song "A Thousand Kisses" by Anne, SongRamp:

please tell me WHO can hear this and NOT be melted? what a perfect lyric. wonderfully weird chord changes. exquisite placement of exotic instrumental flourishes. "I feel 1000 kisses everywhere" – damn, wish I’d said that. applause from this corner, ella, that was one Helluvan Audio Treat. in a puddle.

[26 September 2005] Review of song "Incurable" by Norman Goodman, SongRamp:

Wow!!! Love those changes and harmonies!!! Very compelling and darkly enchanting. I appreciate the skill it requires to effective layer such smooth lines over complex chord changes. Voice and instrumentation are ingenious.

[11 July 2005] Mike Perazzetti, thefeveredbrainofradiomike.com

Ella Blame hits us Like a Faerie in the Middle of a Dark forest.  She Intrigues our Musical desires, and she keeps us Wandering back for More.  We’d love to see her Live but we’ll have to Settle for her CD for now.  You should, too.

[16 June 2005]: Review of song "A Thousand Kisses" by Andrew Schmidt, ArtistLaunch:

This is a totally fascinating track. Ella shifts from a torch singer's sensuality to a blues singer's sensuality to a pop singer's sensuality... OK, you get the idea. And the music behind her is just great. The use of Indian "touches" over a fairly simple bass line and strings providing a harmonic drone creates a great backdrop to the vocals (or if you really concentrate on them, they're a treat in and of themselves). What more can I say but play it.

[April 2005] Steve Perrett, www.songstuff.com

Ella Blame is a very gifted and unusual vocalist with a unique style, the music is sometimes haunting, sometimes experimental, but always tempting.

[14 March 2005] Dr. Steel

Fantastic! Elclectic, atmospheric and haunting. It's as if Bjork, Portishead and Sneaker Pimps had some glorious Ménage à trois and gave birth to a new, musical animal.

[02 February 2005]: Review of debut CD "Ineffable Desire" by Jon Sobel, BlogCritics:

... Then, in the frenetic “Thought Control” and the experimental “Another Side,” both with music by guest collaborator Shinji Imai, Blame shows off the baritone end of her huge range, along with her hisses and moans and piercing high notes. She unveils a fluttery soprano for the spooky, deceptively simple ballad “I Can’t Sleep.” In fact, it wouldn't be too much of an exaggeration to say that Blame's voice is to a normal person’s voice as Robert Patrick’s shape-shifting Terminator was to the stolidly anthropomorphic Schwartzenegger model.

[22 January 2005]: Review of debut CD "Ineffable Desire" by Jen Lush, Midwestbands:

... It made me listen a little differently than I normally would and it caused me to change my thoughts as to what is mainstream and what may not be. As a matter of fact, when I decided to be open minded I heard so much more than I did the first time through. Ella’s vocal range is so incredible! The things she can make her ‘instrument’ do is reason enough to get this disc!

[02 January 2005]: Review of debut CD "Ineffable Desire" by Anna Maria Stjärnell, Ectophiles' Guide:

...The witchy "Thought Control" is somewhat like Nina Hagen gone dance. "Dance with me (Temple Mix)" is scary and haunted rather than danceable. It's very suggestive and might have been recorded by Delerium. "Violent Silence" is an unusual song with an extraordinary vocal. So, it's a challenging and different debut this.