1. Icy blue
2. Messages get through
3. Body Work
4. Gray's Pussycat Edie
5. Chills
6. Blows me away
7. La La La
8. Booby Boo
9. That in itself
Full Stop, experimental electro/folk, charted #7 on college/community radio across Canada after its limited edition release of 150 copies in 2000.
Article printed in The Hour, Nov. 2, 2000:
Annabelle Chvostek
"I've been experimenting with a bunch of different things," she informs modestly. "This was about seeing if I could fit it all together."
Annabelle Chvostek is referring to the stunning free-form folk and trip-hippie electronica that sit, stand and swivel very comfortably, side by side, on her brand-new homemade recording, Full Stop. Two years ago, when Chvostek was being a Funky Ass Folk Babe, she made 200 tapes – and sold every single one of them. Bets are that this lovely limited-edition release will have a similar, but more successful, fate. On Full Stop, Chvostek kindly, creatively and audaciously lays down her Montreal cabaret-scene style, Joni-meets-Ani worldly songwriter stuff with some "electroacoustic-y indterludes" that she's scored for dance performances and a cool, Kinnie Star-type beat.
That's because, as you will notice, though folk-based song will most probably always be her main sonic outlet ("There's just something about a guitar and a voice together that can be quite powerful, and it's definitely where I'm really able to emote"), Chvostek is quite the tech champ. Her instinctive way with overdubs, samples and drum-machine bits got her invited to jam with the big boys like Coldcut's Matt Black when he was in town.
"You know I'm into it all and I think it shows up on this schizophrenic little album. I've got some of my own computer-based beat experimentations, but then there's the electroacoustic elements, too. I guess my thing is really to try and merge art sensibilities with something more universally acceptable."
Ilana Kronick
Annabelle Chvostek launched Full Stop at Casa del Popolo, (Nov 3, 2000)