fantastic version of this old fred astaire classic!

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As thousands of burners descend upon the Black Rock Desert to come together for an unsanctioned Burning Man gathering, we held a small gathering in Venice Beach.  We celebrated the bonds that have connected us together after two decades of heading to the desert.

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CD1+CD2 Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson 1971

Format: CD + Digital + LP
Cat#: CCS105 + CCCD019
Release : 07.04.2017
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Beautiful piano melodies, ballads drawing their inspiration from jazz, classical music and cinematic imagery, hummed choruses, a mood at the crossroad of nostalgia and reverie, instruments with uncanny timbre and charm, chiseled percussions, added to a subtle electronic production, this is the recipe for Tout Va Bien, the second solo album by French composer Ezechiel Pailhès.

All this is reflected in the opening track, River Day, which begins with “prepared piano” sounds (a technique mastered by Ezechiel, which consists in placing different objects on the strings of the piano, to create singular percussive notes). This deliberately mysterious and poetic introduction, supported by light electronic effects, is soon combined with a light beat, organ chords and vocalisations by the artist, which gradually transform the track into a ritornello, with both nostalgic and lighthearted tones.

As the artist states it: “We could describe this type of emotion as a kind of endearing nostalgia, close to saudade,” i.e. the Portuguese term expressing the idea of ​​a light melancholy stripped of its sickly aspect, or a “haunted craving” as the singer and composer Pierre Barouh nicely put it. “This feeling comes naturally to me when I write. Generally, in my music, I seek a form of soothing, of eternity even, (without meaning to sound pretentious). This is something I encounter in classical music, which is what I listen to most.”

Even if he defines himself as a “jolly fellow” (which is confirmed by the music and reputation of his electro-pop duo Nôze), when chatting to him, he comes across as quite gentle and stellar, just like this collection of eleven tracks that he composed “in autarky”, entirely alone, in his Montreuil home studio. Following the footpath of Divine, his first solo release from 2013, this album is however more intimate, marking Pailhès' taste for finely crafted moods and drifts. Songs like Tout Va Bien, but also Éternel Été and Promesse, whose lines have been borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets, seem to shift between carelessness, bliss, bitterness and anxiety.

“Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
And make me travel forth without my cloak,
To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
Hiding they bravery in their rotten smoke?”
(Taken from William Shakespeare's Sonnets that inspired Promesse)

As for titles such as Octobre, Boyd London or Le Fou Du Phare, they illustrate Ezechiel’s gift for composing instrumental ballads, with equally versatile emotions though drawing from cinema, supported by whispered or sung vocalisations. Ezechiel explains: “No word can quite describe this type of singing, it's a kind of ritornello, these are songs without lyrics, which is all down to the fact that I always think of my melodies as songs. The absence of words is not a form of laziness. My songs simply say enough for people to imagine their own story. It is more about suggesting or evoking a feeling, an emotion. "

Even though he composed on the piano, in this album Ezechiel plays and toys with numerous other instruments, such as the Clavietta (a type of Melodica), a Moog Little Phatty synth, an analog Korg Lambda organ, rare virtual instruments, and a whole array of exotic percussions, gleaned along his tours. He insists, however, on the sculptural dimension of his compositional work. For him, it is about “revealing or masking the sound of the original melody” through various processes, including percussive ones, whether using a prepared piano (which he even calls "transformist”) or several digital cuts and superimpositions enabling him to generate what he calls “sound illusions”, through unusual associations between the timbres of various instruments.

Ezechiel Pailhes - Boyd London

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This week's guest: Gilles Peterson 

01. The Absolute featuring Suzanne Palmer - I Believe (Mark!s Full On Gospel Mix) [AM:PM]
02. Key To Life featuring Sabrina Johnston - Forever (New Heights Swing Mix) [Sub-Urban]
03. Alaia & Gallo featuring Kevin Haden - Who Is He? (The Reflex Who's Who Remix) [Soul Heaven]
04. Art Of Tones – Where One Is [Local Talk]
05. IPG V Hot Toddy - Slow Motion Cowboy [Night Noise]
06. Nuyorican Soul - The Nervous Track (Original Mix) [Nervous Records]
07. Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everybody Loves the Sunshine [Polydor]
08. Freeez - Southern Freeez [Beggars Banquet]
09. Afromento - Human Wave [Soulfuric Trax]
10. The Goodfellas featuring Lisa Millet - Soul Heaven (Pastaboys Bini & Martini Remix) [Ocean Trax]
11. Art Of Tones - I Just (Can't Get Over It) (Terrence Parker Remix) [Local Talk]
12. Kenny Burke - Let Somebody Love You (Dimitri From Paris Super Disco Blend) [Le-Edits Records]
13. FirstChoice – Doctor Love (Late Night Tuff Guy Hypnotizin Groove) [Salsoul Records]
14. Slave - Just A Touch Of Love (Moplen Remix) [Cotillion]

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Kitten And The Hip - No Strings EP
© 2018 Tanz mit Profis GmbH, Vienna (Fred Astaire Austria) 
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Produced by: Rainer C. Regatschnig, Justin Fidèle & Wolfgang Lohr

Release Date: 2018-04-06 
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Cititrax is excited to present the third in a series of four song samplers showcasing the talents of some of the most innovative producers of the moment. Cititrax: Tracks Volume Three features the a powerful new collaboration between Amato (aka The Hacker) and Mariana Saldana (ex-Medio Mutante, Boan), the brutal industrial techno of Barcelona based British producer The Sixteen Steps, a Polish mastermind based in Miami known as His Dirty Secrets, and the NYC underground duo Further Reductions (Shawn O’Sullivan and Katie Rose). The overall sound can be described as modern, uncompromising and guttural. Each artist reinvents dance music by bringing their own unique vision to the floor. 
Artwork designed by Veronica Vasicka and sourced from Polaroids shot in NYC clubs in the 1980s, Cititrax: Tracks Volume Three is pressed on blood red clear vinyl – limited to 999 copies and housed in a matte printed sleeve. Vinyl pressing will be out on May 19th. Now shipping. Digital release coming soon.

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