Backatcha Recordings re-release Jennifer Viban's 'Miracles', which first surfaced on the 1986 V/A record, 'Soul Of Haringey'. The latter was also outputted by the Advance Level Enterprise label, and has also been reissued separately. Viban's contribution to the latter record was arguably the highlight of it, with its sensitive, summer soprano and sanguine yet soft production hearing the track dangle from the record-branch, as though it were a ripened sonic fruit. Viban, evidently a passionate and talented singer about whom otherwise little is known, treats 'Miracles' as an opportunity to sing of the miraculous, epiphanic feeling of love: one that goes against the grain of possibility, or at least possibility as we might have at first imagined it. We're tempted to say, though it's not absolutely true, that the approach to disco-funk heard on the record could only have come from its particular time and place, its plucking slap-basses and gated electronic snares sounding authentically lo-fi and London-bound, despite the evident debt to US export music. On the B-side, too, and perhaps even more excitingly, comes the formerly unreleased 'How Can I Get To Know You', a just-as-sweet funk-lectro cut from the 'Soul Of Haringey' sessions, and which provides just as much audible succour.

A1. Miracles
B1. How Can I Get To Know You