@artoflifemusic - Poet's Dream: https://kindisch.lnk.to/KDDA022

The deep house focussed Kindisch label starts off 2018 with a terrific nine track album from the Art of Life duo.

Art of Life is the pairing of Oleg Makovskiy and Paul Twins, a pair based in Odessa and Cheboksary. This is their first significant project and, given that little else is known about them, it does all their talking for them. Across the nine tracks, they explore tender
and emotive house music for the late-night hours, suggesting they are sensitive, thoughtful souls with a knack for delicate grooves.

The title track kicks things off in moody fashion, with spacious drums slowly churning beneath heavy, sombre chords. It’s an immediately alluring opener, while ‘Deception of Devil’ keeps up the rather eerie vibes with organic percussion and long drones,
distant horn calls and an unsettling atmosphere.

The gorgeous ‘Lift Up Your Eyes’ is less dark, with optimistic chords and slowly tumbling drums overlaid with a spoken word snippet that is exotic and mysterious. It’s an ambient track with only the most subtle sense of propulsion, as is ‘He Is Behind
Your Eyes.’ Synths are allowed to ring out into the night as weighty drums rotate below and plucked strings hang in the air.

The second half of this excellent album stays resolutely sparse, but ‘Disagreement’ gets more upbeat thanks to the kicks below and wonky, whirring synths up top. Carrying on in an impossibly deep vein, ‘Dream Together’ is perfectly horizontal and plaintive, ‘A Lone Flower’ has a sense of menace and unease in the dark vocal
whispers and brooding bass and ‘Our Life Is A Spark’ and ‘Girl in Black’ close things out with more dubby drums, loose clicks and unhurried house grooves.

This is a brilliantly coherent album made for close listening, but it will also offer more intimate dance floors plenty of goodness.

Poet's Dream

Art Of Life - Deception Of Devil

Friend began his journey as a music journalist in 2010 founding @psymedia before taking up DJing 2017. In 2018 he moved from South Africa to Vietnam and quickly established himself as a formidable DJ and promoter in the region. From sandy beaches down south to mystical caves up north, Friend played at many reputable clubs, festivals and tropical jungle raves such as Studio Adventure, Savage, Retreat (Equation), We Groove and Equinox Festival. His creatively curated 'This Is' club nights and prolific sunrise afterparties in Hanoi under his humble record label @magicboxengine also played a pivotal role in shaping the city's underground music scene.

Since returning to Cape Town in 2021, Friend has performed at renowned festivals and prolific venues such as Wolfkop Weekender, Bazique, Habitat, Into The Wild, Afrikaburn, Origin Festival and Modular Club. Often eclectic, sometimes obscure, always tasteful - Friend's forever evolving sound is heavily influenced by his nomadic travels in SE Asia, South America and Europe. Never shy to switch up the genre or tempo, his versatile approach sees him blending elements of ambient, house, minimal, techno, electro and breakbeats spanning both new school and old.

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 Not much experience in recording on analog synthesizers and not only) But this is not a hindrance to the creation of the correct sound, based on the inner strings of the soul's breathing!!! You have to live with a good life and not in a hurry! 

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