Artist: Sally Shapiro
Genre(s):
Techno
Discography:
Disco Romance
Year: 2007
Tracks: 9
In a sense, Sally Shapiro is both the recording nom de guerre of an anon. Swedish isaac Bashevis Singer and too the make of the twosome, consisting of that isaac Bashevis Singer and producer/writer Johan Agebjörn, wHO are in concert responsible for the euphony released under the moniker "Sally Shapiro." That medicine, combining Shapiro's soft, silvern vocals with Agebjörn's vintage-styled synthesist dance tracks, is a debate and punctilious replication of the sound of 1980s Italo disco music, as well as a distillate of the melancholy even hopeful sentimentality unremarkably associated with prim indie pop.
The pair first met in 2001, working in an berth together, only it wasn't until Christmas 2004 that Agebjörn, a womb-to-tomb Italo disco music devotee, noticed Shapiro's voice spell they were telling carols at his pianoforte. He told her she would make an fantabulous Italo-style isaac Bashevis Singer, and as chance would have it she turned out to be a fan of the literary genre as considerably. Shapiro in agreement to criminal record vocals for a tune Agebjörn had penned in the style of Valerie Dore and Katy Gray (likewise pseudonymous singers world Health Organization were backed by obscured writing/production teams), although when they finally got around to it in early 2006, she was so shy that Agebjörn had to leave the room spell she sang her part. The resulting data track, "I'll Be by Your Side," was nigh instantly hailed as a modernistic classical on online discotheque forums; it was tending a vinyl group tone ending on the Austrian label Diskokaine that July and was shortly championed in such outlets as Pitchfork Media, Vice magazine publisher, and The Village Voice.
The record album Disco Romance followed on Diskokaine in December, containing that strain and basketball team more Shapiro/Agebjörn collaborations (one of them, the single "Windcheater Christmas," a cover of the Swedish indie pop one-woman banding Nixon), 2 remixes, and an ambient Agebjörn instrumental. In October 2007, Canadian-based indie Paper Bag Records released Disco music Romance in North America with a revised track itemisation including 3 young songs (two by Nixon's Roger Gunnarsson; one of them penned specifically for Shapiro) and the extended variation of "I'll Be by Your Side." Shapiro's much-discussed shyness (she soundless refuses to criminal record vocals piece anyone is in the room) has precluded her from euphony videos or making live appearances to advertize the album, although she has given numerous interviews.
