Nat Rework (Den Sorte Skole)

Nicolàs Jaar- Ètre

Inspired by the poem of Rabindranath Tagore, this opening track acts as an invitation, a quiet message to set the right mindset for the journey ahead.

Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali 35:
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Before It Was Light

Gitanjali 35

Bandcamp

Letter to the kid

NARENOHATE

Like everything, 'In The Lens' has been shaped by its past, the music recovered from the garbled intestines of a decades-old hard drive and previously lost emails that were, over the years, left to wallow in discontinued, withering accounts. Forlorn and forgotten samples that were recorded on cassette dictaphones shed a gentle light on Solo Andata’s musical lineage, but in this new era fresh elements appear alongside these re-worked sounds. As a result, the music has both a contemporary and a lightly dated feel to it, like memories shrouded in orbs of present moment dust...

Full review:

http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2016/05/solo-andata-in-the-lens/

Pre-Order:

https://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-lens


Pre-Order

Solo Andata - Left

from 'Astrild Astrild' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den282
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/dalecooper]

The Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones are returning with their 4th album called "Astrild Astrild". Like all of the previous albums, the band recorded the seven pieces at home in Britanny during several sessions between 2013 and 2016.

The characteristics of this full-length are classic drone soundscapes mixed with deep tone saxophone parts that became the band's trademark since the release of their debut album in 2006. Slowly paced, the new tracks are following the Quartet's basic structure and classical sound. Apart from that the new full length conceals more live takes including guitars, bass and Rhodes keys and even piano sounds are haunting for the first time at the end of 'Ocho Acenteur'. With these new elements the songs of "Astrild Astrild" are pushed further into a large tunnel of deafening rhythmic parts and field ambiant textures.

Vocals are a major element of the Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones' DNA since the second album "Metamanoir" (2011). Sometimes breathy, sometimes deep and often mysterious, Ronan MacErlaine, Gaëlle Kerrien and Zalie Bellacicco voices appear in the corners of the songs as ghostly figures or eerie characters.

The new album "Astrild Astrild" is a glimpse of the present live sound of the Dale Cooper Quartet: 50's crooners singers, noisy guitars, atmospheric electronic and hypnotic jazz. All of these elements painted in monochrome black.

Astrild Astrild

Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones - Tua Oriel Courvite Isabelle

Dois Dedos Jazz Prog23 -  Esbjörn Svensson Trio

Nils Frahm - Screws, featuring remixes from several spectacular artists. Available from Erased Tapes! 
http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP079

There's a bit of a story behind these tracks... 
Dreams and gifts and tapes and piano... 
Created as gifts for Nils Frahm and given to him in Portland on September 30th, 2012.

No computers were used when creating these remixes - 
the computer was solely used to record these digital tracks from the master tape. 
Hope you enjoy them. :)

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