Snippets from Dego & Kaidi's LP 'A So We Gwarn'

available in 2LP, CD, Cassette, & Digital formats on Saturday, September 23rd @ soundsignature.net

Dego & Kaidi - A So We Gwarn

Sounds Familiar is the world-renowned artist agency, label, and record store that is synonymous with quality and heart. This year Sounds Familiar is celebrating a decade in dance music by releasing 3 LP’s. The series entitled “Familiar Sounds”  dropped its first volume in April and featured Dego, Kamma & Masalo, Aleqs Notal Feat Anu, Kai Alcé, Retromigration and Hugo LX.  On the second volume Sounds Familiar continues to join the musical dots with artists from the roster spanning elastic acid house and candle-lit piano jazz. Familiar Sounds Volume 2 features another heavyweight lineup that includes the mighty Kaidi Tatham, Carista, Gigi Testa, Zopelar, Alex From Tokyo and K15, all on a 12” vinyl album that reaches all corners of the roster’s electronic jazz-influenced sound. 
Kaidi Tatham’s upstart summer anthem ‘Misguided Youts’ kicks off. Built on a piano vamp and an infectious horn line, the track eases into a consummate piece of future fusion, stirring the melting pot of London’s jazz and broken beat heritage into the kind of soulful jam that has rightly earned him his legendary reputation. Taking a deeper dive, Carista tweaks the dials to deliver a slice of rubbery four-to-the-floor dancefloor business. Rattling snap-back snares give her track ‘Love Me Right’ a kind of early hours dynamism, the dream-like vocal sample drifting across a room of loose and swaying bodies. Gigi Testa rounds out the A-side with shuffling outernational house track ‘Summer Snow.’ Integrating his passion for global rhythms, the Rush Hour affiliate, and Organica Record Shop owner channels the shimmering opulence of the Amalfi coast on what is an indulgent boat party of lush pads and sun-dappled melodies. 
On the flip Zopelar delivers the jazzy, disco-infused house of ‘Arapuca.’ There’s a skittish energy to Zopelar’s offering, which wriggles and jives between muted trumpet improvisations, George Duke’s ‘A Brazilian Love Affair’ and the kind of in-the pocket synth work he is known to have among his arsenal of musical skills!  Alex From Tokyo weaves in the stripped back influence of his former Berlin home into the techno-pop landscape of his Japanese upbringing, heading in to go out on the cosmic club cut ‘Wa Galaxy.’ Closing out the LP is DJ, producer, and man of many monikers, the inimitable K15. Putting on his jazz hat most associated with his work as Culross Close, ‘Autumn’ is a solo piano ballad that brings the exuberance of high summer to a reflective end, demonstrating just how varied and open-minded the world of Sounds Familiar is.
https://soundsfamiliarstore.bandcamp.com/album/familiar-sounds-volume-2

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Snippets from Dego & Kaidi's LP 'A So We Gwarn'

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