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| Roisin Murphy's ’Ruby Blue’ on The Echo Label World's Fair announced, that Roisin Murphy's "Ruby Blue" on The Echo Label is slated for its official U.S. release on April 25th 2006. Ruby Blue, the debut solo album by Irish songstress Roisin Murphy, is a rare gem of eclectic, electric, soul jazz, redrawing the boundaries of pop from an eccentric, erotic and brave feminine perspective. The album is a playful collaboration with electronica pioneer Matthew Herbert, whose mischievous production work intertwines intricately with Murphy's sultry, sassy voice, elevating her elegant songwriting to even higher levels of sonic ecstasy. Released last year in the UK to much acclaim, the album has finally been scheduled for a full commercial release in the US, this Spring. Murphy began her career with internationally-renown Sheffield (UK) dance-pop duo Moloko, closely associated with the city's groundbreaking trip hop scene in the '90s. Murphy met Herbert back in 1996 when he did his first of many remixes for Moloko. Ruby Blue is the first time the revered super-producer Herbert has produced an album for another artist, aside from his wife Dani Siciliano. In the first recording session for this album, Herbert had Murphy slam her notebook of ideas against the microphone to create the first beat. Ruby Blue is an odd, yet ultimately triumphant, pop record; as fresh, inventive and downright exciting as anything Roisin has ever put her name to. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |