Players:Seaming (Singing/piano)
Semay Wu-Cello
Matthew Batty-Violin
Oli Moore-Violin
Justin Lingard-Viola

Mixed at MINGDOM, Zombie and Trial and Error Studios...

International DJ April 2006

SEAMING TO
SODASLOW For Us (UK), FU36T

Homelife banshee Seaming To goes solo, her operatic vocals soaring above the Simian bleeps and blips of electro monkey maestro James Ford. It's a complicated affair, as if Gary Numan had courted Liz Fraser before dropping 'Cars', but this is a record loaded with emotion and which packs plenty of dancehall thump amongst the fluttering intricacies. Watch for an album later in 2006. KM

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DJ Magazine 15th March 2006

SEAMING TO
Sodashow/Dreaming For Us ****

Part-time Homelife collaborator, occasional Toolshed occupant and full-time, octave-scaling chanteuse, SeamingTo has amassed a fair old CV over the years. Having graced the stage with many a Mancunian legend, she has now decided to step out of the shadows with the release of her debut EP, a wonderfully strange and suitably twisted example of free-thinking music. Impossible to categorise and pointless to pigeonhole, it's SeamingTo at her experimental best (notwithstanding the dodgy opener). Needless to say there's a fascinating contrast of styles at work, as beautifully stripped-down, haunting piano and strings share the same stage as sinister, pulsating electronics. Weird and wonderful! (FS)

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DMC World Update - April 5th 2006
ESSENTIAL LEFTFIELD TUNE
SEAMING TO
SODA SLOW EP
(FOR-US)
"Coming from a family of trained musicians, it was only
natural for Seaming to follow the same path, first of all
studying at The Royal College Of Music in London, then
moving to Manchester to explore different vocal techniques
& do operatic studies at The Royal Northern College Of
Music. Did all this work and no play pay off ? You bet it
did, Seaming has got an extraordinary voice. As well as
being part of the band Homelife, Seaming has managed to do
a solo album, pulling in Graham Massey (808 State,
Toolshed, Homelife) & James Ford (Simian) on production.
"Soda Slow EP" is the first taster of what's to come, and
the title track will leave you gob smacked, as Seaming's
vocals soar & dip as they twist & turn, weaving their way
around racing drum machines & over the edge heartbroken
strings. "Soda Slow" comes with a couple of remixes &
bonus cut "Dreaming", which comes over like Judy Garland
doing a silver screen siren number. I can honestly say
Seaming To is in a class of her own."
DEAN THATCHER 5 *****

Seaming - Sodaslow (For Us)

If the sleeve artwork for Seamings Tos debut solo release Sodaslow simply depicted a picture of Manchesters finest avant garde electro-Opera singer at at the bus stop eating a bag of crisps it would be worth the entrance fee alone, but the fact that this enigmatic slab of vinyl is packaged in what could arguably be one of Manchester's finest sleeves to grace this decades record racks almost makes me want to save the audible part of this eagerly awaited release for another sitting... but im greedy.
First brought to our attention as the front woman for twins of evil supergroups Home life and Toolshed Seaming has always been in a league of her very own, comparisons to Morricones right hand woman Edda DellOrso or obscure European Jazz vocalists such as Ursula Dudziak face redundancy when its quite clear that Mings grasp on electronic music as well as contemporary classical music and pop is as tight as any of her lesser spotted contemporarys. Sodaslow combines all of the above facets in the form of a 3 and a half minute pulsating morse-code-coda with a sewing machine bass line and some floral choral arrangements with regal symphonix to boot - educing visions a Prague summer with free Red Bull and vodka on tap. The cello and piano on B-side Dreaming would make a perfect readymade soundtrack for the next Quay Brothers film while Miss Tos voice repels ghosts and melts snowmen at a thousand bloody paces. ANDY VOTEL

BOOMKAT review:
"Seaming To has contributed her unique operatic vocals to Homelifes last few albums for Ninja Tune and has finally managed to piece together her first solo record - already attracting a mass of attention from a huddle of artists queuing up to work with her. The lead tracks on the record are both well engineered upbeat electronic numbers, but our moneys on the other two Dreaming is an absolutely gorgeous slice of dark cabaret and has Seamings voice billowing over haunting violin solos and dream-like percussion like mists forming over a robust mountain. Im sure David Lynch would have a thing or two to say about this, Seaming manages to sound just how Julee Cruise never quite could utterly out on her own and incredibly pleasurable to listen to. The second jazzier number, the Prom Mix of Soda Slow, is the other track to look out for, the murkiest experimental loungecore youll hear this year. One for fans of film soundtracks as well as followers of highly original vocal music, a massive recommendation. "

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