When Vanguard Records issued its double album The Best of Mimi & Richard Fari±a in 1971, five years after the motorcycle crash that claimed Richard Fari±a's life, the label simply repackaged the duo's two regular album releases, Celebrations for a Grey Day (1965) and Reflections in a Crystal Wind (1966). In 1988, when it reissued the package on CD, Vanguard cut six tracks to fit The Best Of on a single disc, leaving 20. Eighteen of those tracks are repeated on {^Pack Up Your Sorrows: B...   [ read more ]

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'This single features tracks from Mimi's Soak album, with a dreary cover of the Screamin' Jay Hawkins classic I Put a Spell on You previously unavailable. ~ Tim Sheridan, All Music Guide

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It's kind of cheating to call Mimi Goese (pronounced like Gacey) new, since she fronted the cult 80s art-rock force Hugo Largo. But Soak, her arresting Luaka Bop/Warner Brothers debut under the solitary name Mimi, is a bold new start for her in a post-trip-hop era that can better appreciate her experimental songs.On the album's first track, 'Piece of Cake,' Goese sings of feeling like 'both the tortoise and the hare' and the record plays that contrast out. Her voice leaps and lurches in the most graceful,...   [ read more ]

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