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Internal Fire – a song taken from the debut album «Music For The Lonely Island», written and produced by Martin Akeret and Sarignia Bonfà.
This rework/remix is produced and arranged by Popshop a.k.a. Martin Akeret. August 2014. Free download! All rights by the owner/copyright. www.smoothattack.net

Internal Fire (Popshop Remix)

Written, produced and performed by Martin Akeret and Sarignia Bonfà. wwww.smoothattack.net. Copyright | 2014.

* Lyrics *

there is no space 
in everyday's life
we are trapped
in our jobs and bonds

in our hearts 
we are fugitives
looking for the last
piece of freedom

in this lonelyness
there is love from a distance

There is no space 
in everyday's life
we are trapped
in our jobs and bonds

in our hearts 
we are fugitives
looking for the last
piece of freedom

in this lonelyness
there is love from a distance

but in the end
we follow our way
we don't have an option
because  there is love  from a distance

we feel desire, 
fantasy and art
save us a place
in your heart
don‘t let us go apart

 don‘t let us go apart

there is no space 
in everyday's life
we are trapped
in our jobs and bonds

Desire, Fantasy and Art

2. Not Yet

1. Save Us (Guest: Anne Quillier)

Sarignia Bonfà: Vocals
Martin Akeret: Keyboards, Electronic Sounds, Production, Mix
Marco Scherrer: Drums

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Day Off

The church of St. Roman dominates the village of Raron like a hilltop castle. In defiance of the times it offers an intimate, peaceful and focused space. Le Pot with Manuel Mengis on the Trumpet, Hans‐Peter Pfammatter on the piano and keyboard, Lionel Friedli on the drums, and Manuel Troller on the guitar spent four days in this village church recording their latest album ‘Hera’. The choice of setting wasn’t random. Fragments from the music of Benjamin Britten serve as a starting point for Le Pot’s acoustic expedition: a melody from ‘Requiem aeternam’, themes from ‘The Beggar’s Opera’, a song from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. The sound is mystical, timeless and dreamlike, yet never esoteric or innocent. Rather, there’s a dark and sinister quality to Britten’s work. The gears crunch, they grind against each other and don’t quite mesh together. The tonal centre becomes more and more indistinct, gliding subtly from major to minor. “Music has the beauty of loneliness and pain”, the composer once remarked.

Le Pot use Britten’s melodies as a springboard for improvisation and launch themselves into capturing new territories. Hera? Heaven? Salvation? Perhaps. The band relentlessly thrusts open the church doors, allowing the worldly–avarice, anxiety, exuberance and lust–to infiltrate the spiritual. The melodies lose themselves, the rhythms change. Impressionistic sounds dissolve in the acid bath of a guitar or a blaring keyboard: they begin to flicker and flutter, forming themselves into sinister collages and lively tableaux vivants. Was that gunfire? A bold declaration of love? The caw of a crow? The power of the Le Pot’s imagination is immense yet never gets out of hand. Thanks to a conceptual framework outbursts are reined in and there is plenty room for spontaneity. At one point the 500 year old church bells can be heard–nine soft rings–before the band takes over.

The mystical acoustic ‘Hera’ is after the electrifying ‘She’ the second album of a trilogy that will culminate in ‘Zade’.

Le Pot - Now Until The Break Of Day

Le Pot - Badlands

Le Pot - Flint

Music written and performed by Martin Akeret (Piano), Sarignia Bonfà (Vocals/Guitars) and Dionys Jäger (Drums). Lyrics written by Martin Akeret. Produced and Mixed by Michael Brändli, Hardstudios Switzerland. Copyright control. May 2015. Snippet/unreleased.

VAMPIRES (Snippet, Hardstudios Switzerland)

This remix is produced and mixed by masseDefekt!
Original music and lyrics written by Smooth Attack (Martin Akeret/Sarignia Bonfà)
© 2012/2013

Short biography and links – masseDefekt (D/Dresden)
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My name is masseDefekt. I'm electronic musician and DJ from Dresden, Germany.
I started making tunes 10 years ago, because it was a way to make me able of listening to the sounds i always wanted to hear. Music needs no language and knows no barriers.
Music doesn't exist even. It's pressure-fluctuation in air. But it encodes emotions, when you make it – and releases them again, when it's heard and played. That is so fascinating! 

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