Simplesmente incrível o tema que se encontra no Ep dos representantes do Sonar Kolectiv. Chama-se "rej" e é o resultado de uma parceria entre Innervisions e o magnifico Âme.
Nós aqui no palhaço não temos palavras para descrever um tema que atravessa os mais variados géneros da electrónica.
Se quiserem é o "beau mot plage" para o verão de 2006.
Para escutar...mas só um bocadinho:
Quem também está de regresso é o Sr Matthew Herbert (ou Herberto para os amigos), que depois da borrada que foi o disco conceptual e/ou instalação sonora "plat du jour", regressa em grande. Vamos repetir.
Regressa em grnde carago! O rapaz esmerou-se mas muito e criou um disco absolutamente imprescindível.
Aqui fica a review da
soulseduction:
With his new album 'Scale', restless musical innovator Matthew Herbert has produced his most accessible and mellifluous song collection to date. In just a decade as a recording artist, Herbert has become Britain's most inventive and prolific electronic composer, recording under his own name as well as Doctor Rockit, Wishmountain, Radio Boy, Transformer and others. Globally respected beyond narrow scenes or genes, he has also produced and remixed artists as diverse as Björk, REM, John Cale, Roisin Murphy, Yoko Ono and Serge Gainsbourg.
'Scale' is a culmination of these achievements to date, containing echoes of all Herbert's musical identities. In a career spanning jazz, house, techno and avant-garde sample collages, his most frequent vocal collaborator has been his partner Dani Siciliano. The velvet-voiced chanteuse again features prominently on 'Scale' alongside the singers Neil Thomas and Dave Okumu, who fronts the band Jade Fox and has previously collaborated with SA-RA Creative Partners, 4 Hero, IG Culture, Courtney Pine and many more. The album also features a chamber orchestra, a woodwind section, French horns and many of the big band players heard on Herbert's 2003 album, 'Goodbye Swingtime'. (...)
Most of the unusual objects on 'Scale' were deployed in groups of 12, a thematic nod to the western musical scale of 12 notes. But the album title also has another meaning: scale as in perspective, the means to gauge the distance between past and present, childhood and adulthood, personal contentment and global discontent. Finding a way to measure his own life as a successful musician with freedom against a global backdrop of war, poverty and inequality. "Hopefully the album still has that celebratory quality, even though it's a kind of sad," Herbert concludes. "To be honest I'm pissed off with myself. I wanted to write an upbeat pop record, but I didn't. You can't do that when Dick Cheney is in control. The world is so messy at the moment, I couldn't bring myself to do it. But I would really like this record to be considered upbeat. It's designed to be enjoyable." Ah, but 'Scale' is much more than enjoyable.
It is a sumptuous banquet of soulful pop made with integrity, intelligence and invention. Proof that, even in troubled times, the best music can be both playful and political, serious and sublime. It is all just a question of scale.
Para ouvir...mas só um bocadinho:
Pois é tá a chegar o verão e o calor e este é o disco perfeito para abrir as hostes! Chamam-se Jahcoozi (qualquer alusão á banheira com bubbles é pura ilusão) e é uma espécie de M.I.A. mas sem entrar em ragga overdrive, alias ambas as vocalistas vêm do Sirilanca (ahhh! essa terra do ragga).
A get physical lança mais uma compilação, desta vez comemorativa da editora, novamente ao leme a dupla M.A.N.D.Y. e o seu house minimal...bom para o verão e simultaneamente diferente do habitual (essa do habitual é para quem não conhece estes tios).
