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“Iuno, Everything Nothing - Singer Stella Bergsma and...”

written by Lila on 17/01/2005

Good Points
New, original sound, intense music, great lyrics, brilliant vocals.

Bad Points
Hard to get by small record label.

General Comments
Iuno, Everything Nothing - Singer Stella Bergsma and producer-performer Steven de Munnik produced twelve world-class tracks on their release 'Everything Nothing'. Steven managed to produce an album full of excellent soundtracks without any triviality - but what Stella did with her voice is almost unbelievable. From Beth Gibbons' mournful voice (in 'Nothing') to Martina Topley-Bird's clang (in 'Fracture'), she does it all. But without any comparison, she has a voice and style of her own, worth of the biggest names in pop music. They don't simply write songs, they write poetry with compass, with elements being used on their proper places. They don't over-use anything, neither the instrumentation nor the vocals. They aim for an equilibrium. And that's complex; the final result is complexity. Is it bad? No, not in any way. That's the difference when you or me, most of the people, write a text and when a poet does it. They can say in one opus what we need a whole life to just try to describe. Iuno did it on Everything Nothing: they described beauty.

Can beauty be dispensable in one's life? No. This is an essential album.

If Iuno were a legal drug, I would take it. Find out more about iuno at www.iuno.nl. You can order the cd here: www.cdbaby.com/iuno