Best of the Cloud 2024 04 11

turbocharged (jazz fusion)

A journey has a very special meaning to it. It’s not just moving from one place to another, it’s not just looking at some new town. It’s much more than that. It’s discovering a whole new world that’s out there: places… people… stories… and even music. 

You get away from your everyday life, your routine, the source of many of our worries, and head out to the unknown, where nothing is set and all there is, is to discover. And if you open yourself up to the world, there’s some magic hidden behind it as well. A magic that has always been there, but not always seen. 

I hope with this music you can travel to wherever your mind feels like taking you. Close your eyes. Let it wander far into the hills, past the lakes and forests of your memory, and trust me… you’ll feel the breeze around you. Maybe it can ease your struggles for a while, like making music does to me.

Campfire stories

Taken from the album 'Grenier Meets Archie Pelago', available on Digital/CD/2XLP/ and deluxe packages all available direct from melodic.

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Grenier meets Archie Pelago - 'Two If By Sea'

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Release date: 13th February 2023

Mark Barrott is an artist that creatively speaking, never stops moving. His musical career has taken many forms. Some know him as Future Loop Foundation, the alias he used to create and perform ambient drum and bass from the mid-90s. Some know him for his Sketches from an Island albums, which he released under his own name, and others know him as the founder of the highly influential International Feel label, a label that spearheaded the bespoke vinyl movement of the 2010’s and brought DJ Harvey out of studio retirement. Barrott has spent close to four decades exploring new sonic territory and pushing the boundaries of various genres and is considered a pivotal figure in the revival of the Balearic music scene of the last decade.

Barrott’s new album, ’Jōhatsu (蒸発)’, is predictably unpredictable. Due for release this April on Above & Beyond’s new downtempo imprint Reflections, the album is a full departure from anything Mark has written before, partly because he was writing to moving picture. In 2019, Mark was commissioned by a director to write the score for their new documentary, ‘Jōhatsu (蒸発) ... the art of Evaporation’.

‘Jōhatsu (蒸発)’ is an 8-track journey through the sounds, sights, smells and sensations of traditional and contemporary Japanese culture.

Every year, it is estimated that as many as 100,000 people in Japan vanish, without a trace. These are the so-called johatsu. The “evaporated people”. People become jōhatsu for many different reasons including addiction, divorce and job loss. While some people may consider taking their own lives, others simply… evaporate. Jōhatsu refers to these people who purposefully leave the lives they knew behind.

‘Jōhatsu... the art of Evaporation’, shadowed a Japanese man as he went through this exact process, paying a contractor to help him vanish, moving from central Kyoto to Scandinavia. Scene notes from the director and shots of Kyoto at night-time, rural Japan, and Scandinavian forest-scapes informed Barrott’s musical direction for the project.

The tracks on this album are the ‘full’ pieces - those written for the longer sequences of film. The first single and opening track from the album, 'Kyoto (京都)', utilises the art of simplicity. It’s stripped back and minimal, allowing Barrott’s ambient, spontaneous production style to shine through. 

‘Jōhatsu (蒸発)’ is a fairly air-tight representation of Mark Barrott as an artist. It’s spontaneous, it’s unexpected, it’s unrestricted and it’s a gorgeous listening experience. It’s the sound of an artist set free, without creative restraints. If music could fly, 'Jōhatsu (蒸発)' has wings.

'Jōhatsu (蒸発)' is out 17th April on Reflections. The first single ‘Kyoto (京都)’ is out now.

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We hope you like jammin too! Lofi heavyweights LESKY & Waywell are expanding their sound spectrum. With Norwegian guitar-hero MAS on board, our duo is giving their Lofi beats a Balearic twist and inject a healthy dose of jazz & fusion. All created during some long session in Tbilisi, Georgia. ‘Azul’ is the first single.

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Produced & mixed by LESKY.
Guitar by Waywell.
Bass by MAS.
Recorded in LESKY's living room in Vera, Tblisi, Georgia. 
Mastered by Roe Beardie.
Artwork by Tim Paschadag.

Cat No: MPM 332-1
Artist: LESKY, Waywell & MAS
Titel: Azul

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LESKY, Waywell & MAS - Azul

Original music by: FPMORINSTUDIO/Francois Pierre Morin musician composer, maker of mood , photo from the window of the music studio last autumn 2023 in the morning.

FUSION LATIN JAZZ

based on some loops, but I added:
string and pad synth, keyboard, drums + brass and synth solo blown with my EWI. Enjoy !
artwork: image (AI) by FranSoto / Pixabay

Projection

Pierre Bordetti productions (c) Avril/2024.
Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:

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