TEAM RNS PRESENTS

TITLE: Breath from Another

RIPPER: Team RNS

0  hr 56min total- 81.2mb

RELEASE DATE: 1998-04-28

RIP DATE: 2002-11-11

01 Breath from Another            4:47

05 Country Livin' (The World I    4:21

06 Flipher Overture               0:42

07 Half a World Away              4:20

09 Superheroes                    3:58

Hard to categorize this release, but we

can file under trip-hop or down-tempo.

Esthero offers listeners a mixture of many

styles of music, including R&B and rock.

Breath From Another is the first

release of this Toronto duo (Esthero

is both the name of the band, and the

name of the female vocalist.)

The singer, Esthero, was raised in

Ontario. She left home at the tender

age of 16, and between day jobs,

appeared at open microphone nights and the

like, polishing her vocal skills. Doc

was raised in the United States, and

became part of his first band when he

was only 15. A contest win earned him a

trip to Toronto, Canada, and that's

where he met up with Esthero the singer,

and together they became Esthero the

As a singer, Esthero has a breathy, smooth

delivery residing somewhere between the

cool of Sade and the quirkiness of

Bjork. The music is heavy on

programming, but also makes good use of

horns on several tracks. There's a

breezy air to the whole affair on tracks

like the jazzy, lounge pop of "Heaven

Sent" and the subtle, percussive feel

to the Latin-tinged "Half a World Away."

The best offerings are "That Girl," which

wouldn't sound out of place on a Swing

Out Sister record, and "Country Livin'

(The World I Know)," with its lovely

vocal melody and gentle keyboard

washes. Breath from Another is too

scrumptious sounding to be ignored, even

if nothing truly sticks with you after