REVIEW OF DOUCE

Listen to clips! 1. The Party starts 2. Stranded 3. Blitzed 4. Come down to me 5. Basement 6. Bali 7. Who Knows 8. Chris and Stella leave 9. Red Bathroom 10. Downstairs 11. Make Out 12. Free I dance 13. Hugs

Gisburg, voice (and quite the voice!) and keyboards; Phil Painson, percussion triggered samples. Their sound is unique - it's superficially in the trip-hop vein of Portishead, Morcheeba, and Massive Attack, but not quite as "pop" or groove-oriented (though the grooves are there - just not "easy" grooves).

Gisburg's lovely, deceptively dispassionate, three octave voice is so cool, one can practically see the icy smoke coming off it, like a cold tart drink on a hot August night.

Phil Painson lays down phat beats like David Lynch and John Cassavetes direct movies. Like Lotte Lenya collaborating with DJ Spooky, Laurie Anderson doing her version of "Cabaret," or Nico singing with Luke Vibert/Wagon Christ - any of those will do, But you've got to hear them for yourself. With Douce avant-garde becomes avant-groove, taking you down dark alleys of the like you've never seen.

(review from Brooklyn Waterfront by Mark Keresman)

DOUCE IS:

Phil Painson is a drummer, beat-programer, recording engineer and producer. He has worked behind the console with wellknown musicians such as Public Enemy, Tricky, Nas, Roy Ayers, Erikah Badu, Mos Def, Dave Matthews Band, Common, Pete Rock and many more.

Currently he is engineering and collaborating with the Last Poets. He has recorded and produced music of his own for Interscope Records with his band Market and with EXPORT QUALITY the Dum Dum project for Groovy Sounds.

Gisburg is a singer/ composer from Salzburg who has toured around the world as a concert singer for new music with Dieter Schnebel. She has released three CDs with her own compositions on John Zorn's label Tzadik. She has been working with musicians such as: Gary Lucas, Roy Nathanson, Rupert Huber and Anna Clementi from Tosca, William Hooker, Myra Melford, Anthony Coleman, and the Cassatt String quartet, (a.o.)