Artist description UNWOMAN* is a one (un)woman band. About half of her recorded music is acoustic, featuring her playing piano and singing live. The other half -- and these are the songs that are on her new album -- are somewhat experimental or danceable electronic pieces, some of which use folk songs, noise, and cello in a wide range of emotionally devastating and elating harmonic and sonic colors. Consider buying her new album, Knowledge Scars, as it is worth every penny of $12 and most of the money goes to the artist to help her create more music. *The name, "UNWOMAN," is from Margaret Atwood's _The Handmaid's Tale_.

Music Style Dark Electronic/Experimental/Piano/Cello

Musical Influences Download, Battery, Current 93, Cocteau Twins, Joy Division, the Prima Donnas, the Swans, Crass, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Legendary Pink Dots, Steve Reich, Massive Attack, Joni Mitchell

Similar Artists Halou, Claire Voyant, Android Lust, S.I.N.A, Cocteau Twins, Download, Coil, Bjork, Battery, Tori Amos, Meredith Monk, Diamanda Galas, Portishead, and Erica Mulkey of course.

Artist History UNWOMAN has been writing songs for years and is now in the process of producing them herself, one by one. Already there are several albums worth of well-polished productions. She has just finished studying music and electronic music at UCSC, where she's done most of her early production. Now she works on her own. She has collaborated with such artists as d.compose (formerly known as clone45a-6) and Falling You. She has just started her own label, Unmediated Productions, for the purpose of releasing her first commercially available album, Knowledge Scars, and d.compose's next album, which is coming very soon and is available for pre-order now.

Group Members Erica Mulkey is UNWOMAN. Sometimes Bret, d.compose, plays with her, and sometimes people remix her.

Instruments vocals, cello, computer, electronics, piano, samples

Albums Knowledge Scars, Infinitesimal (not public), August 2000 and August 2001, mp3 CD compilation of almost 8 hours of older Unwoman

Press Reviews Outburn Magazine (Issue 18), Octavia: [...]Knowledge Scars is an unpredictable and surprisingly likeable debut. www.starvox.net, Matthew Heilman: Knowledge Scars is an impressive debut release from Erica Mulkey, an independent solo artist from California that under the appellation Unwoman has released a darkly erotic and thought-provoking collection of songs. Erica expresses her instrumental prowess as an accomplished vocalist, cellist, and keyboardist. Her style ranges from a kind of experimental trip hop to swirling darkwave atmosphere with just enough static and noise to give it that extra technical punch. [...] Darkcell Digital, Music Grave: Not only is Knowledge Scars something you’ll not have heard anything even close to before, but it’s quite possibly better than the majority of CD’s you’ve lately been listening to. A bold claim, but of course this is only my personal opinion, biased, by the fact that it is so rare to find something this fresh, this new, nowadays. [...] www.collectedsounds.com, Anna Maria Stjärnell: [...]In Gilead" is inspired by Margaret Atwood's novel "The Handmaid's Tale" and like that book it's deeply disturbing. "Deeper Understanding" updates a Kate Bush song in a very impressive way. Elsewhere Mulkey tackles Crass and the Cure in imaginative fashion. [...]

Location Lafayette, CA - USA

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