Artist: Chris Gray
Title: Cosmic Simmering
Cat.: SAFT24
Label: saft
Format: 2 x Vinyl 12’’
Release date: February 2023
Style: Deep House, House, Downtempo

A1. Forage The Courage (What Could Be)
A2. Woks & Their Toasted Sesame
A3. 3s Then A Flour
B1. Bring It To A Simmer
B2. Freshened With Seductive Acidity
B3. It's A Bad Day When The Store Locks Away Detergent
C1. Fennel & Dill Pollen
C2. The Rest, In Peas
C1. Flan De Qoi Choi
D1. Tikka Luvr
D2. The Puttanesca Caper
D3. Every Child's Pots & Pans
D4. This Game Hen's Game's On

Cosmic Simmering is a very personal new album of unreleased material from Chris Gray on Saft. The 13 track album has been composed of previously lost archives, restored DAT tapes and old CDs and it plots the musical evolution of one of house music's most underrated artists.

Gray has been producing since the mid-nineties, and in that time has crafted some seminal moments in deep house. He's landed on a range of labels, but most often Saft or his own Deep4Life. He has put out seven superb long players that explore a rich palette of moods and grooves, and this latest is another adventurous collection that travels far and wide into rhythm and sound. 

Work on this album started in March 2020 when Chris started digging around in his archives. Some of what he found was sketched in the late 80s, while other tracks were written a few months after Chris moved to Chicago and was living in his uncle's south side attic in early 1993. There are also some cuts from 1995 onwards which have been salvaged from deteriorating DAT tapes after a friend of Chris fixed his player. There is also a selection of early 2000s deep4life material taken from 20-year-old backups on cheap CDs, all brought back to life for this record.

Cosmic Simmering is a beautifully widescreen album that works equally on mind, body and spirit.

SAFT24 - Chris Gray - Cosmic Simmering

WILL BE OUT OF SOUNDCLOUD FOR A WHILE, NO MORE TIME FOR DJ ACTIVITY,CHANGES IN MY LIFE, TIME FOR CHOICES AND FROM NOW ON WILL ONLY FOCUS ON THE MUSIC PRODUCTION. KEEP IN TOUCH THROUGH THE SOUNDCLOUD MESSENGER. ALL MY LOVE. DAVE

John’s first contact with music was when he discovered his father’s abandoned turntable in the house’s storage. He started listening his father’s record collection, based in Soul, Disco and Funk.
In his early high school years, he realised he has a passion for underground music and started with gigs in North Greece till recently where he moved to London. 
John Dimakis aka D’Jones now continues his thousand miles music journey in London’s vast music scene. His sound is influenced from emotive dreamscape House, Hypnotic Deep House and Heady Techno.


Despite the issues, issuing music since 2012:
saft - pulp - born - crue - island issues - endangered musique - onis - less time
Aimlessly captained by Patrick Luca.

SAFT24 - Chris Gray - Cosmic Simmering

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