|
(home) |
|
(home) |
 Blaktroniks Seduction at 33 1/3 Moving CD 2002 |
Blaktroniks; seamlessly connecting contemporary nu-jazz sounds with other black and electronic music genres of the past decades is what they do. This collective of musicians, songwriters, producers and vocalists from the US already released two EPs on a new German label called Moving, before this album came out. While reading the liner notes, I discovered some nice trivia for the trainspotters among you: David Moufang (aka Move D) did the mastering for this disc. The music is mostly gentle and warm (like the sensual soul-jazz in "fais moi fremir"), sometimes dark and haunting (like the piano, raps and breakbeat in "emaciated shadows"), but always chilled and downtempo (like the spacey detroit-styled groove in "next exit"). For me personally, two of the pinnacles are: "on a trip", a conversation between a woman and a man where they describe their journey trough the psychology of the mind. And the very dreamy liaison of piano strokes, dry broken-beats and inarticulate murmurings heard in "dont u want 2" create an even more intimate atmosphere. Despite one or two filler tracks, it's a pleasant laidback album with mainly interesting and original tracks. Say Vegin |
|
