[press note]

vuk: exile! cd
catalogue number: verdu-10
release date: august 15th 2003
c&p verdura 2003

Here´s our favourite one-woman band debuting and keeping up with the 
intensity of her live shows. The core of the music on the record is 
very much the same: repeatitive, hypnotic samples and metallic percussions 
combined to smooth organ layers, alongside with the rather astounding singing 
voice, yet now all that comes with very stylish and diverse arrangements, 
and we have also Kare from Mother Goose visiting on couple of tracks with 
his drumming. The gigs have spawned comparisons to the likes of Einstürzende 
Neubauten, Diamanda Galas and PJ Harvey, and surely they´renot too far 
fetched but at least in the course of this album it should be obvious that 
Vuk has a noticeable sound of her own.

Depending on how yoa look at it, the story of the finnish-american Vuk can 
be traced back a long way. Though the debut album is being released just now, 
she´s still been more or less making music her entiry 22-year life. First 
piano composition was done at the age of three (..oh yes, we´d like to hear 
it too), but under the name Vuk and with a more ´profilic´ approach for the 
last five years. First proper live show took place around 2001, the first 
one we saw was headlined by Mother Goose in May 2002, and about after ten 
minutes or so of Vuk´s set, it was quite clear that if she didn´t already 
have a record contract - she oughta have one immediately.