FUNKE, MAXINE - Lace

delicate-Ç AND strong,real-Ç AND hypnotically beautifulthe songs of maxine funke are a serious addiction I should warn you about.her past projects include albums withTHE HUNDRED DOLLAR BAND,and THE SNARES,and at one time she played guitar in SNAPPER-Ç This her first solo album,was recorded over the last four years in the-Ç brief spaces new parenthood allows,in-Ç these stolen moments she also created several hundred completely individual,arresting hand-printed images, then combined the two prodigies so you could have LACE!-Ç Im awed by some of these songs! Spellbound when they replay themselves all day in my inner ear! Honoured to have contributed a couple of occasional whisps of sound to such a beautiful album. - Alastair Galbraith.