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"Pounding The Box" released by San Francisco Bay Area underground artist Jai J. Noire. Recorded on a 4 track and in a friend's living room. Truly iconoclastic, she writes with playful dark humor in "Jackson Pollack," ham fisted fury in "Lucky Me," and tenderness in "Strip and Dance." Pin pointing Noire's musical style is like trying to hit the proverbial moving target, and yet, you always know that it's a Jai J. Noire song; whispering or howling, the voice is distinctive and haunting, her guitar style savage and beautiful; lyrically free from cliché, the images sharp and arresting: "I am the gauze she tears to cover her wounds/So please avert your eyes/she's drawing smiling faces on her scars up in her room/ so please just go and wave bye-bye." (from "Thistles" copyright 1997, Jai Jai Noire, published by Angiron Music, ASCAP, all rights reserved, used by permission.) "I watched her grind and sway on snakeskin heels/my little double of Jayne Mansfield/ holding out for cash with a strip & dance/December breasts rubbed raw on someone's wool pants" (from "Strip & Dance" copyright 1995, Jai J. Noire, published by Angiron Music, ASCAP, all rights reserved, used by permission.) "Pounding The Box" contains the songs: Little Pill * Thistles * Red Rose Petals * Strip & Dance * Lucky Me * Montreal * Passing * Jackson Pollack Allez! (Go!) * Fingerprint * Transmission * Strawberry Girl