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Since moving to Toronto from England in the early 90s, Tamara has
been a mainstay on the Canadian alternative music scene. She has
also worked on several occasions with trip-hop sensations King Cobb
Steelie, fronts Toronto's Microbunny, the atmospheric noise-rockers
whose work has been featured on Dutch TV, HBO films, PSI Factor
and others. To date, she has been the only voice to ever grace a
Do Make Say Think album, 2001's
And Yet and Yet.
On her fourth solo release,
All Those Racing Horses, Williamson
continues her unique brand of looping, stereoscopic wizardry. Trumpet,
cello, violin and mouth organ are woven together with ambient samples
such as a surprisingly musical modem, making a listen on headphones
(be it ever so cliché to advise somebody to do so) an almost
spiritual experience. Though the tracks on the album reveal a palpable
pop-sensibility, the chord progressions never quite go where one
might expect.