Charlie Megira - Abtomatic Miesterzinger Mambo Chic (Red Black Yellow) North Sea games Elaine Lee

Elaine Lee

Whichever the subject matter calls for

Acoustic Guitar

while winning the first Mercury Music Prize

and gothic artists

Charlie Megira - Abtomatic Miesterzinger Mambo Chic (Red Black Yellow) North Sea games Elaine LeeOn his 2000 debut, Da Abtomatic Meisterzinger Mambo Chic, Megira channels the optimism of post war America, narcoleptic surf, and the Twin Peaks soundtrack into a lo fi masterpiece all his own. Sung in both Hebrew and English, Mambo Chic moves at a deliberate pace, unconcerned by the traffic of the modern world and wrapped in a blanket of Tascam 4 track hiss. On "Tomorrow's Gone" Megira achieves the feat of being so far back in time that he's somehow