Part #19 of the Chillout Series with tracks out of the Viva Electronica YouTube-Channel.
Tracklist:
1. D.Miller - Note A (Original Mix)
2. Coloray with Eagles & Butterflies - Face of Value (Eagles & Butterflies Sunrise Mix)
3. After Sunrise - Velvet (Original Mix)
4. Andre Sobota - Southern Sundance (Neil Browne Remix)
5. Mollono.Bass - Dancer in The Dark (Album Version)
6. Ben C & Kalsx - Solstice (Original Mix)
7. Weltmusik & Asomnia feat. Sarah Camille - Heights (Extended Mix)
8. Lane 8 - Atlas (Original Mix)
9. ANAKLAV - Feeling Acid (Dole & Kom Remix)
10. Joep Mencke - Vedana (Original Mix)
11. Darenosa - Open For her (Kryptic (UK) Remix)
12. BONDI - Deep Shards (Original Mix)
13. Ben Böhmer - Vale (Extended Mix)
14. Definition feat. Pete Josef - Caught Out (Original Mix)
15. Teho & Jibe - White Panda (Original Mix)
16. Sebastian Leithold & Christoph Leithold - Deep Blue (C-Ro Remix)
17. Marek Hemmann - Doxa (Original Mix)
18. Monkey Safari - Sign (Avidus Remix)
19. Dole & Kom - Ardani (Original Mix)
20. Adana Twins feat. Jeppe Kjellberg - Relentless (Original Mix)
21. 187rec - Gamma (Original Mix)
22. Pupkulies & Rebecca - Fou De Toi (Aaron Ahrends Remix)
23. Anderholm - Muzik (Original Mix)

Viva Electronica Chillout Series

Chillout Series #19 by SoundPort 7 [Adana Twins / Definition / Mollono.Bass / Dole & Kom / Lane 8]

Pete Josef is not just a singer, songwriter and multi- instrumentalist from the South-West of England. His social conscience and inherent need to create, build, share and protect as well as educate himself about issues regarding the environment, society, politics, race and gender have seen all of these permeate into his musical output in recent years. This has never been more overtly the case than with his brand new single, Utopia.

The song is ultimately about “greenwashing” - the method by which businesses exaggerate their environmental credentials for financial gain, and how this trickles down to consumers. Pete for one is frustrated by how companies, for decades, have made a calculated refusal to engage with the facts about climate change. This is reflected in the song’s lyrical content - “They doping ya, so be wise, be alive. Don’t look up, ya house is on fire.” Lyrics inspired by the film Don’t Look Up and a famous speech by environmental activist Greta Thunberg. The ironic lyricism continues in that it’s “Gonna be the summer, the summer of our lives” reflecting on how people bask in high temperatures without under- standing why these changes are happening, and the danger it poses to our future.

Pete is very aware that he himself could be accused of “greenwashing”, but at the very least hopes that he can be a small part of a growing movement to force change. Artists like Lil Simz, SAULT and Michael Kiwanuka are very much leading the way with that and Pete feels that he has little choice but to add his voice, but at the same time is conscious that his “consciousness” may never be enough.

Musically, the track has a retro and somewhat South American feel. The introduction features Pete playing a vintage 1960s Harmony Bobkat guitar, before he’s joined on suitably haunting vocals by Marie Lister. The song builds around Miguel Andrews’ steady drums as percussion and horns bring more weight to the proceedings. Imagine a politically conscious Curtis Mayfield backed by Khruangbin and you get the idea.
Utopia is taken from Pete Josef’s forthcoming third album, to be released in 2024, recorded in his self-built and self-sustainable studio cabin in his garden. The exchange between studio and live has become a unifying force since the resurrection of his live quartet in 2022. This year will bring choice live shows, featuring the mercurial Eli Jitsuto from Bristol based outfit Snazzback on guitar and longtime collaborators Jihad Darwish on bass and Miguel Andrews on drums.

Pete Josef - Utopia

Pete Josef is an artist who uses his soulful eloquence not just to entertain, but to open up conversations about his own social consciousness. He has an inherent need to create, build, share and protect as well as educate himself about issues regarding the environment, society, politics, race and gender. All of these have permeated into his musical output in recent years, but on the new single, entitled Sunny Side Up, it’s the often not talked about topic of depression that comes to the fore.

Despite the bleak subject matter, it’s actually a song about the importance of having people around you to support you when you’re not feeling at your best. Pete admits to suffering from anxiety for much of his life, and cherishes having his family present when he feels unable to step up as a partner or parent; when he experiences that ‘hazy funk’ in the day-to-day. In many ways it’s a love song, or at least one of appreciation for the people who carry you through those moments in your life.

“Took a little while and it might take longer, god only knows.. But darling I try. I’m invested all ways. I just hit bumps in the road that I cannot evade.”

Like much of Pete’s new material, the song has a retro and somewhat South American feel. For the first time in a long while, Pete chose to perform all the instrumental parts on this track himself.

A 1960s Harmony Sovereign (the ‘Stairway to Heaven’ guitar!) provides the core, whilst minimal drums (recorded with one single mic in Pete’s Orchard Cabin) and Hofner vintage bass provide a groove reminiscent of stripped back 1970s Al Green productions. The result is something delicate and spontaneous – perfectly reflecting the shaky ground felt in the moment of conception. The track ebbs and flows between some surprising harmonic twists, later on bringing the Hammond organ to the fore and swelling to a dramatic climax, permeated by backing vocal arrangements and glimmering electric guitar.

Sunny Side Up is taken from Pete Josef’s forthcoming third album, to be released in 2024, recorded in his self-built and self-sustainable studio cabin in his garden. The exchange between studio and live has become a unifying force since the resurrection of his live quartet in 2022. This year will bring choice live shows, featuring the mercurial Eli Jitsuto from Bristol based outfit Snazzback on guitar and longtime collaborators Jihad Darwish on bass and Miguel Andrews on drums.

Pete Josef - Sunny Side Up

Pete Josef is an artist who uses his soulful eloquence not just to entertain, but to open up conversations about his own social consciousness. He has an inherent need to create, build, share and protect as well as educate himself about issues regarding our habitat, society, politics, race and gender. All of these have permeated into his musical output in recent years, but on the new single, entitled Carbon, Pete writes very personally, and for the first time, about the death of his brother and how it has made him think about a wider, environmental subject matter.

Carbon is a simple and poignant guitar and vocals song that, on the one hand, mourns the loss of his brother Mark, but on the other, celebrates the idea that we will all somehow end up being part of the carbon cycle “in a beautiful field of green”. Mark was buried on a hillside, overlooking a stunning valley in the South-West of England, and the idea of being part of the carbon cycle was something that he felt quite content about - the idea of returning back to the land after his death.

“Now you are carbon, in a beautiful field of green. Wake up in the morning, rise over the valley, in a place you call your own.”

Carbon is the third single to be taken from Pete Josef’s forthcoming third album, released in 2024 and recorded in his self-built and self-sustainable studio cabin in his garden. The exchange between studio and live has become a unifying force since the resurrection of his live quartet in 2022. This year will bring choice live shows, featuring the mercurial Eli Jitsuto from Bristol based outfit Snazzback on guitar and longtime collaborators Jihad Darwish on bass and Miguel Andrews on drums.

Pete Josef - Carbon

1. Rony Breaker feat. Pete Josef - Stay (Original Mix) Moulton Music
2. V-Tone - Let's Play House (Original Mix) Groovebom Records
3. Soshi Takeda - Long Dream (Original Mix) 100% Silk
4. Frits Wentink - Spiritual Basslines (Club Mix) Clone
5. Roy Jazz Grant - Phoenix Rising (Original Mix) Apt D4 Records
6. Maytra - GODSPEED (Original Mix) Energy Exchange Records
7. Satoshi Tomiie - Lately Dub (Original Mix) Phonogramme
8. Demarkus Lewis - A Good Night (Original Mix) Over The Top
9. Moodena & Charles Levine - Badman (Radio Slave 'Tell Me Something' Dub) Rekids
10. DJ Deep - Cable Guy (Original Mix) Gettraum 
 
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