DOLL IN THE BOX

"Turning campy vintage disco into smoky, dark-humored cinematic theater, New York City dance maven Cristina was too weird and forward thinking to make it out of the East Village gutter during her brief early 80's career. At times a leopard-printed turn-around-bright-eyes Bonnie Tyler, her vocalizations dip occasionally into the powder keg of squawky Long Island secretaries but just as often she laces her shuffle with Ann Magnuson, Kylie Minogue and that othersingle-named downtown personality and launches into the ether around that great sparkling ball in the sky. Luckily for fans of dance-floor drama and those into the idea of a Cristina comeback, the folks at ZE have reissued her entire output, which includes 80's sprawling, ultra percussive "Doll in the bow"."