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This is the new and outstanding album from the Cosmic Orient collective, an accumulation of artists who lay their focus on electronic vibes paired with oriental coloring. Head behind the project is Frankfurt/Main based producer and DJ Herb T who invited the convincing artists Catenia Quentin (vocalist), Abdurraham Köse (percussionist), Mercedes (vocalist), Dana Golombek (vocalist), Markie J., Aaron Gibbs and Nemesis to create a mixture of western music ideas with oriental elements like vocal parts, harmonics, instruments and percussions in a completely fascinating and new get-together. Herb T discovered his passion for music in his early childhood what made him handling with the styles Soul, Funk, R’n'B, Jazz and Reggae as a DJ. In the middle of the nineties he discovered oriental music, especially Arabian and Indian sounds and developed his very specific sound he is realizing constantly with his Cosmic Orient project he founded in 2001. Their first compilation, named “Eastern Electronics” was released in 2002 which the first album on BlueFrameRec., “Cosmic Orient, followed in 2006. In 2009 it is time to release the second album “Black Flame”. With the new album Herb T, who was inspired by the Asian Underground from London, and his international artist colllective are fusing downbeat, trip hop, ambient and dub to an anbsolutely unique mixture of lounge music with a razor sharp profile. The combination of eastern mythology and western technology hits a very assailable point: the individuality of cultures. Cosmic Orient are crossing borders with their music and displace them. The result is an unbelievable poetic and emotional style of fragile and beautiful tracks that are easing the mind.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Art, Avantgarde, CD, Electronica, Julien Plenti, Karo.Me, Music, Phoenix, The XX, XL Recordings
A On Saturday, August 23rd 2008 in a long-planned performance at the Ludwig-Forum in Aachen, plus49 decided to establish for the first time the main theme of their new studio album. The title: “Aircrash saved my life”. The plane crash as worst-case scenario. Three days prior to the premiere a SpanAir airplane with 175 passengers crashed at the Barajas Airport in Madrid. 154 of the passengers were killed. For 21 passengers this experience has changed their life for ever. Rumor has it that during World War II Joseph Beuys crashed with his Stuka over the Crimea. Tartars found him and saved his life. They covered his burns with fat and felt. “The first performance of my life” says Beuys later on. The experience was essential for his later artwork. Three days after the accident of Madrid plus49 was still deeply touched by the crash – too deep. Art, which is always a reflection of reality, became real for a moment, was swept out of the exhibition hall for some days and the multimedia performance “Aircrash saved my life” was postponed for several weeks. The pursuit of integrity, for the untouched existence, is determined by physical or mental injuries. This is the main theme of the 16 new songs on „Integrity and Injury“. Within this context, the song „Aircrash Saved My Life“ builds the center. plus49 have been regarded as “phenomenon on standby” for years. They are part of the new generation of artists who have as many hands as possible in as many different plays as possible. Since 2002 they have recorded multiple Electronic-Alternative-Pop albums (All The Beautiful Things, Hymn Without Country), published radio plays or created music- and video setups, e.g. in 2003 for the Gasometer in Oberhausen (The night of angels). They shot artistic movies (pollyDAYS) and developed sound designs for cell phones, TV stations and the sound of the gong for the Cologne-Bonn airport. plus49 also won the Midem NetAward for the best Online Event in Cannes. Their music, performances and productions range somewhere between Pop and Avantgarde. plus49 started out as a project and have ultimately transformed into a full-blown band with traditional cast (guitar, bass guitar, drums and vocals), supplemented by electronic plots and a classic cello player. „Integrity and Injury“ marks plus49’s most consistent album so far. It tries out and makes use of all musical possibilities. The music is inspired by all possible disciplines. An album that consequently exceeds expectations. But „Integrity and Injury“ marks a contrast to its predecessor album „Hymn Without Country“ – no poetic creation which romanticizes, no more lament about personal misery. An album that takes on the spirit of the time. The focus is on the world’s standby condition; distant, ironic, also sarcastic, but never indifferent. The songs of “Integrity and Injury” are not a kick in the butt – but at least a slap in the face of today’s crisis generation.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Album, Café del Mar, CD, Downbeat, Electronica, Lounge, Mole Listening Pearls, MP3
Sky d’Or is a project around the Zurich guitarist, keyboarder and songwriter Alexander Vögele. He mixed a lot of his own tracks with ideas of Jillene Luce and Robert Jan Meyer. He gives his music a flying lounge sound similar to pop songs. The spherical voice of Jillene Luce let the tracks fly in the infinite as the name Sky d´Or already shows. The sounds of Robert Jan Meyer and his long-standing experience as a producer and DJ delivers a propelling and respectable ground for the whole album. For some tracks Alexander Vögele has invited, well-known swiss musicians just like jazz & lounge saxophonists Philippe Chrétien and G-Sax, also soul voice Jessy Howe or solo guitarist Martin Tuffli. “Inner Music” contains 15 varid and animated tracks which are testify of different musical influence. Jazz, Latin, Ambient and Popmusic melt to an aerial warm lounge sound with strong hooklines.
All tracks has been produced during the last three years. Four tracks were already published on the famous “Café del Mar” compilations (named by Alexander Vögele or Alexander Vögele feat. Jillene Luce). “Inner Music” should summarise the best lounge tracks of Alexander Vögele, which have originated during the last years partially together with Jillene Luce and Robert Jan Meyer into a big sound picture.
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| 01. Moving On | |
| 02. Calor | |
| 03. Engiadina | |
| 04. Into The Sun | |
| 05. Dance With Me | |
| 06. Soul Connection | |
| 07. The World | |
| 08. Heavenly | |
| 09. Inner Music | |
| 10. Dos Amigos | |
| 11. Ibizarre | |
| 12. Break Away | |
| 13. Magical Memories | |
| 14. Time & Place | |
| 15. Len & Jay | |
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Album, CD, Electronica, Lounge, MP3, Music, Plastic City
Last year Sweden born producer and DJ Jonathan Axelsson aka J. Axel convinced on Plastic City with the singles “This Time” and “Love Letters” (produced together with Astrid Suryanto). Now he comes around with his second album “Start Receiving”. His passion for the Deep House genre started in the middle of the nineties. Jonathan started Djing and producing his own music and met Johan Bacto, who later founded the PlackTown Sound imprint. The productions that were released on PlackTown Sound caused a huge feedback from radio stations, magazines, Djs and television. After releasing a mini album on Chris Grays label Deep4Life he layed his focus on vocals in combination with the deep character of his music while producing and releasing instrumental house tracks beside under his early alias Ronin (on Driftwood). At this time he met Sumatra born vocalist Astrid Suryanto, who worked with Victor Calderone, John Digweed or The Prodigy’s Neil McLellan so far. They started working together and Statra Records released their first production “You Give Me (Love)”. On this album Astrid features three songs. But one more female voice supports a track on the album: the voice of Stockholm based Zemya Hamilton. Zemya Hamilton releases singles and albums since 1989 on labels like Sonet Grammofon, WEA, EastWest or Warner, where she published her album “Trollbunden” in 1993. She gave her voice to a lot of dance tracks and produces songs with her band Zemya Hamilton and the Cozmic Energy.
“Start Receiving” is an extraordinary Deep House album. Through the strait structures of the arrangements the voices of both vocalists are able to breathe while the romantic and melancholic synthesizer combinations create a wide and strong background for the melodies they create. In the instrumental tracks Jonathan Axelsson aka J. Axel draws fields of emotional colours that are opening like huge blossoms. Between Lounge and Deep House Jonathan turns every stone and discovers little dimensions he explores with his synthesizers. “Start Receiving” is a really big album that hits heart, body and soul directly.
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