Life as a writer can sometimes be very simple. You listen to music and pass judgment on it, without knowing how much or how little work goes into it. Ideally, it’s music you know and perhaps even wanted specifically to write a few lines about something familiar.
It’s rare, but now and then it happens that you’re presented with music that is different. Something new or at least unknown.
“All Messed Up” by TARANJA WU is one such example.
One-woman electro dance punk, and “All Messed Up” is her second work.
Okay, I’m on board with punk, but I’m out when it comes to electro.
Now the twelve songs by TARANJA WU are playing, and I must say, I can’t completely escape the music.
It’s very varied what this one person serves us. Sometimes it’s dreamy, almost ethereal like in “Traces of Faces (Klara)”, sometimes dark and almost leaning towards the cold wave corner like in “Eve & Villanelle”, and sometimes very danceable like in “Queen of Misery”. The sound has a captivating effect while listening and pulls you deeper into its spell.
TARANJA WU does a lot right on “All Messed Up”. If even I, who doesn’t count electro among my favorites, feel drawn in by the music, then it can’t all be bad. In fact, it’s quite surprising while listening that this somewhat complex sound is created and celebrated on stage by just one person.
This Swiss…
When you hear something from Switzerland, it’s almost never bad. On the contrary, it’s usually very interesting and, like TARANJA WU, quite out there.
