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Groove Salad / inspired by SomaFM - Chillout Downtempo Ambient beats

Daily Sound Necessities 2023

Soma FM | Groove Salad - 8

Soma FM | Groove Salad - 2

Groove Salad / inspired by SomaFM - Chillout Downtempo Ambient beats - 2

After their celestial Arcturian Corridor opened proceedings on Quindi, London-based brothers Clive and Mark Ives are back with a new record. When Woo first began recording at home in the early 70s, Clive and Mark were the embodiment of furtive genius. Since re-emerging in 2013, they’ve released scores of albums, collaborated with Seahawks, and have now struck up a productive relationship with Quindi.

On Paradise In Pimlico, you’re hearing a very different sound to the one gently creaked out on early classics like Into The Heart Of Love. This is fulsome, contemporary production rich in detail and artful sound design, but crucially, Clive and Mark’s gorgeously melodic approach remains open and inquisitive, even with the sheen and shimmer of modern studio techniques.

Woo sound more confident than ever in their composition, too. The crystalline, fragile tones of ‘Cadenza D’Innocenza’ glide through key changes that spell out an engrossing narrative, while the cascading melodies on ‘Moment To Moment’ pirouette across the space between notes with masterful poise. ‘Paradise In Pimlico’ is an illustrious suite of orchestral composition played out with the lightest touch, framed by the slightest of synthesized fauna and topped off with tender sax and flute. Album closer ‘In Case Love Fails’ takes on a subtly cinematic urgency with its undercurrents of walking bass and the strike of the string section (synthetic or otherwise).

There’s space for markedly new approaches, too. The rhythm section on ‘The Motorik Mirror’ clunks and pops with a tactile, high-definition quality which teeters between electronic sculpture and clockwork, organic machination. The deft, lightly-brushed drums coursing through ‘Even More Notes’ see Clive and Mark step into a different mood, celebrating the beat as another fluid, tonally-rich texture in the mix and adding a smoky, jazzy hue to the Woo repertoire.

It’s far from a drum-focused exercise though. At every turn, you’re confronted with aching beauty and timbral surprises. If there’s one constant throughout Paradise In Pimlico, it’s the omnipresent chimes. These twinkling drops of light scattered throughout are something of a hallmark of Woo, ensuring the lilting, lullaby-like magic of their music persists whichever direction they head in.

releases February 25, 2022 

Black Vinyl 12" LP & Digital 

Available via Word And Sound Medien GmbH & Quindi Records Bandcamp Page

Credits:

Clive Ives: Electronics

Mark Ives: Guitar on Gold Star, The Motorik Mirror and Paradise In Pimlico

All tracks written and produced by Clive Ives

Cover: Clive Ives

Graphics: JDN

Mastered by MA Spaventi

Vinyl Cut by Tom Haunstein

Manufactured at R.A.N.D. Muzik

Special Thanks to LEDX for their support

P+C Quindi Records 2021

[QUI005] Woo 'Paradise In Pimlico' PREVIEW

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NY DJ, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Toribio baptize Real Feel Records with the Brown Cocoa Skin EP. The record is chock full of lush, swingy tracks built for the dancefloor. The legendary DJ Spinna contributes the finishing touches with a monster remix.

To get your hands on this spectacular debut from Real Feel, make sure to head over to their Bandcamp to get your pre-order! Follow the link above! EP hits stores on September 1st.

Brown Cocoa Skin EP

PREMIERE: Toribio - Brown Cocoa Skin (DJ Spinna Remix)

Warp10+3 Remixes

Kid For Today (Stereolab Mix)

"SPINNING AWAY is a very easy one for me to talk about, because it has a feature that I like a lot, and that I have used before as well. I like very much to have contrasts of speed. For instance I like to have very very fast staccato rhythms, chopped-up rhythms, which very liquid vocals running over the top of them. Maybe the best example of this is not on one of my records, but on the Donna Summer song "I Feel Love" with Georgio Moroder playing. The synthesizer part on that is very very technological and mechanical, Kraftwerk almost, but her singing over it is just like a beautiful liquid feeling going on over the top. Anyway, I have that kind of feeling in Spinning Away, something of two very opposing qualities: a rhythm that is staccato, off-balance slightly. If you listen to the way the drums begin on that song, they have a strange, off-balance feeling. Their sound is crisp. The vocals on the other hand, and the violins are not played in the same mood, they're in almost a different musical universe. They float on top of this sea of action, you know, this sea of activity. And the violins play in a different time signature: dam dam dam dam dada over taka tak taka taka taka tak taka taka... Well, actually I'm not very good at talking about that particular piece of music (laughs)." -- Brian Eno, interviewed by Michael Engelbrecht.

Brian Eno & John Cale - Spinning Away (totallywired edit)

Saudade

Heeds

Why Sleep Through Your Dreams-

Rapelle

Settling Days

Passerines

Melismatic

The Anthology of Fragments

Another Space

Big Tiny

Un Hiver

Soft Focus

never hit the bottom

Jungle Juice 
(Music & Lyrics by Horace Silver)

Stefania Arcieri vocals
Nathaniel Facey alto sax
Gareth Lockrane flute
Barry Green piano
Sandro Zerafa classical guitar
Dario Di Lecce double bass
Shaney Forbes drums

Jungle Juice (Horace Silver)- Stefania Arcieri Septet

76:14

14:31

Janeiro

Janeiro (Chiller Twist Blue Line Extended Remix)

In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country

Amo Bishop Roden

Black Market Gardening

Snake Ranger

Motion Without Pain

MOTION WITHOUT PAIN

Another Day At The Orifice

Narrow

Sound Burger

Pork Fiend

Absinth - The Finest Ambient House And Bar Cuts

Jacuzzi Jazz

Maybe They Appear In Graveyards

lovers carvings

Fi-Lamente' (Special Edition)

My Tears Become Lavender Oil (Plaid Remix)

Opalescent

Lost In Thought

Reasons

Love From The Sun

The Killer And The Chicken

Fenomenon - Pacific Memories

Taken from the album 'Mirror Infinite' out now on Bandcamp and most online stores. https://stateazure.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-infinite