Tina Root

ICE QUEEN: Tina Root
BAND: Switchblade Symphony
ORIGIN: San Francisco, USA
GENRE: Darkwave
ACCOMPLICES: Susan Wallace
DISCOGRAPHY: "Serpentine Gallery" (1995), "Bread And Jam For Frances" (1997), "Three Calamities" (1999), "Sinister Nostalgia" Remix Collection (2001).
INFLUENCES: Siouxsie Sioux, Nina Hagen

IMHO: SS were the most macabrously funny and original darkwave band ever. Imagine two chicks dressed up like ragged dolls singing morbid lullabies in a trip hop background. REALLY cool! Too bad they're not together anymore. Tina liked to experiment with her voice, and her vocals ranged from singing like a little girl -hence the morbid lullabies- to operatic style; she reminds me a lot of a young Siouxsie Sioux (in "Wrecking Yard" she sounds just like her). The band called it quits in 1999 and now Tina is embarked in a solo project called Tre'Lux.

FAVOURITE SONGS: "Witches", "Dirty Dog", "Invisible", "Sleep", "Dissolve", "Clown"...
FAVOURITE ALBUMS: "Serpentine Gallery", "Bread and Jam For Frances."


WHAT OTHERS SAY: From their website... "Switchblade Symphony, a compelling union of chemistry and circuitry, was formed in San Francisco in 1989 by composer Susan Wallace and vocalist Tina Root. These talented artists took dreamy, dark visual imagery, the poetry of alienation, and the timeless romance and grandeur of classical and theatrical styles of music, and layered these elements over dynamic heavy beat industrial and lush electronica to create a unique and vivid auditory tapestry. "