My dear friends Gini Helie & oOmiaq form a fantastic band called Milenka together. A couple of days ago they released their second album, tipEe.
The multi-talented duo make magic happen in their music. Using experimental instruments and sounds in the music, blending French and English in the lyrics and creating everything, including the illustrations for the covers themselves, Milenka’s album is truly a beautiful world of it’s own.
I highly recommend listening to this inspirational album. It’s altogether a beautiful experience - uplifting, personal, surprising and calming all at the same time.

Milenka in the artists’ own words :
“Milenka was born 3 years ago when Gini Helie and oOmiaq met.
She travelled between London and Sydney, singing for bands such as Riot in Belgium, the Pyramids and Fait Accompli.
He collaborated with AIR, Jean Louis Murat and even did an album with a troop of children and Camille. They’re both illustrators and multi-instrumentists.

Our home-studio is on top of a mountain at 900m altitude.
This is where most of the songs were written, inspired by moutains and forest.
We collect sounds and ideas just like a painter would use colors, a thick black stroke for bass, some yellow stripes for a balinese harp, a shade of pink for voices ect…
It’s also a tribute to animals, tribes and spirits.

Our baby boy Nanook was also a big source of inspiration. We blend vintage electronic sounds with acoustic instruments, along with rubbing stones on the ground and ethnic vocals.
You can find yourself walking alongside streams, liftings pebbles, listing to made up languages.
Camille came along to play, together we created our own kind of tribe, a troop that invents our world music.”

Get a taste of what Milenka is all about here -
http://www.myspace.com/milenkathepyramids

And then go buy the album here -
http://milenka.bigcartel.com/

Well worth recommending to everyone !!