Country : USA Genre : Trip Hop Style : Industrial , Electronic
Label : Auto Prod Year : 2013
WOMAN debuted at #20 on the college electronic music charts (CMJ RPM) on February 5, 2013 after just one week. Karen's music merges industrial electronic beats and cinematic orchestration with a voice that seems to come from the bottom of her soul. She lures you into her sonic world. Once you are there, it is difficult to escape, though you may not want to. Her deep and layered arrangements create the atmosphere for her darkly poetic lyrics. Each song feels like its own epic film noir as she sings about the secret parts of our psyche. In her own words: “We live in a world of mass distraction. Bombarded by facebook and tweeting and texting and reality shows. But this is not reality. We have learned to fear reality. We have learned to fear our dark emotions because they make us vulnerable. So we hide these emotions, we bury them beneath the surface. But the raw experience of feeling is beautiful even if it is often painful. It is what makes us human and connects us as human beings. Without it we are vacuous. Our emotions do not exist in isolation. They are layered and complex. Beneath the surface we are passionate, we are angry. We are guilty, we are proud. We are scared, we are strong, we are wounded. We are mean, giving, untrustworthy and loyal. We are lost and looking for answers and can make mistakes in finding them. We are beautiful and grotesque. We have things that make us unlovable. We want to be loved. And so I offer you my new album WOMAN. I wrote these songs to connect with you. I wrote them to connect with myself. I wrote them because I am alive, I am a human, I am woman". Karen's music was born while she was attending medical school, which was an unusual place for her to end up after receiving her degree in theater. She didn’t quite fit the mold of a medical school applicant. Music may have saved her life during her medical training. Not literally, but it pulled her out of some very dark corners. She says, "When you are working 80-100 sleepless hours a week there is no room for expression. And you need it when surrounded by so much death and sadness". She sought solace in writing, arranging, and recording her own music. Karen has evolved from those harsh days of medical training. And while she still writes and sings about the hidden sides of our psyche, she has let go of a lot of the internal angst she experienced and wrote about on her first album, Animals in the Street. Her music is now an external lamentation and she approaches those darker topics with confidence and femininity. This can be heard on WOMAN, which was released February 12, 2013. Karen wrote, recorded, arranged and produced WOMAN in it’s entirety as she did with her first album, Animals in the Street. Animals in the Street also charted and peaked at #27 on the CMJ RPM charts. Both albums were mixed and mastered by Darren Morze.Source
Country : U.S.A Genre : Trip HoP Style : Electro , Downtempo
Label : Auto-Prod http://archive.org Year : 2010
Rigolo ! C'est le terme qui revient à la fin de chaque écoute de l'album de Dutch. Les productions sont riches et la voix pleine de bonnes intentions. Une base excellente de hip-hop et de sampling, saupoudrée d'une douce brise féminine : tout pour plaire ! Surtout que le producteur Stoupe n'en est pas à son premier coup d'essai. Mais voila le souci, c'est que c'est peut être un peu trop ! Un peu trop rempli, un peu trop similaire. Quand Liz Fullerton se met à chanter, elle ne s'arrête plus, et on attend l'instant où les chansons sauront respirer un peu. D'une chanson à une autre, l'album s'écoute en apnée. Les compositions s'enchainent de façon monocorde. Où est la petite prise de risques supplémentaires qui viendrait hisser ce disque au rang d'indispensable ? Ainsi, si le premier essai s'avère relativement convaincant, aucun titre ne viendra réellement me hanter par la suite. Un album sympathique donc, très accessible et agréable à l'écoute, mais qui risque de faire saturer très vite ceux qui recherchent un certain espace dans la musique qu'ils écoutent.Source
Tracklist :
1. Intro 2. Just Before the Rain 3. Pearls 4. 2000 Leagues Under My Keyboard 5. Woman Like The Wind 6. Charlotte 7. California Cloaked In Wool 8. Tristess 9. Cerulean 10. Beyond All Walking 11. Meaning Of Unequipped 12. Shoe (Outro)
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Country : U.S.A Genre : Trip Hop Style : Electro , Downtempo
Netlabel : Position Records Year : 2006
The debut release from The Atomica Project, Metropolitan maneuvers effortlessly through genres, incorporating elements of trip hop, orchestral, downtempo, and lo-fi, all the while illustrating a compelling story of loss, affliction, collapse and recovery through Wade Alin's unadorned writing approach and Lauren Cheatham's impassioned delivery. While fans of Portishead, Bjork, and Lamb are certain to appreciate, Metropolitan introduces a sound that is distinctly Atomica.Source
Tracklist :
1.One Day In New York City 04:12 2.Delorian 03:25 3.Larsen 04:26 4.Salt 03:56 5.Recent 03:20 6.Quiver 04:03 7.Bittersweet 04:01 8.Sorrow 04:23 9.Pollen 03:16 10.Gun 04:21 11.Worry 04:22
Country : Netherlands Genre : Trip Hop Style : Alternative , Cinematic Beats , Post Rock
Tracklist :
1 Bright Sky 5:01 2 The Calm 5:58 3 Blood Red Chevy 5:26 4 Two Minutes East of Everything Else 8:13 5 Panorama 6:01 6 Reminise 4:47 7 Xiao Mei 4:59 8 Le Quartier Latin 7:43
All songs mixed & produced by Le Dimanche All songs mixed by Jurgen Krooshoop Mastered by Paul Matthijs Lombert Lyrics by Marjolein Kooijman
guests: Marijke Damen | viola Jos van den Dungen | violin Erik van Hoof | trumpet Vincent Houdijk | vibraphone Marije de Jong | cello Fernand de Willigen | trombone
Country : Germany Genre : Trip Hop Style : Electro , Lounge , Downtempo
Label : Columbia
Tracklist :
1. Love You're In (05:13) 2. After Hours (04:55) 3. When We're Mad (04:33) 4. Bluebird (03:12) 5. Turned On (03:59) 6. Dark World (05:54) 7. Barbarella Disco (04:10) 8. Raw Love (04:11) 9. If You Believe (05:05) 10. Deals (04:43) 11. Late Night Story (04:35) 12. Cardigan Lane (01:44) 13. Raw Love Mix (By Blue Carbon) (06:12) 14. Raw Love Mix (By Da Dope Smugglaz) (05:37)
Acoustic Guitar [Additional] – Choque Hosein (tracks: 5) Arranged By [Strings] – Frank Ramsay (tracks: 1, 3) Bass [Outro] – Simon Russel (2) (tracks: 1) Bongos [Additional] – Neil Sparks* (tracks: 6) Design – Stylorouge Drums [Additional] – George Veros (tracks: 1, 3, 11) Engineer [Assistant] – Alison Lynch (tracks: 1, 3, 6, 9, 11), Tom Salmon (tracks: 7, 8) Engineer, Mixed By – Choque Hosein, Daren Mohamed (tracks: 1, 3, 6, 9, 11) Harmonica [Additional] – Choque Hosein Performer, Programmed By – Andy Campbell Photography – Michele Turriani Producer – Hipkiss Producer, Programmed By [Additional] – Choque Hosein Vocals, Lyrics By – Catherine Mather (tracks: 1 to 10, 12) Written-By – Campbell*, Mather* Written-by [Strings] – Frank Ramsay (tracks: 1), Hipkiss (tracks: 3)
Tracklist : 01 - Far Side 02 - Dig 03 - Copy 04 - Hobbit 05 - In Between 06 - Camille For Now 07 - Hey Preppie 08 - Sweet Cheeks 09 - Song Number 9 10 - Pushing Him Away 11 - To You 12 - Go
Origine du Groupe : North America Style : Indie , Trip Hop Sortie : 2012
From http://www.fipradio.fr Cinq ans après "Brasil" le collectif new-yorkais Wax Poetic, toujours dirigé par le saxophoniste et claviériste Ilhan Ersahin, revient avec un sixième album "On a ride" dans les bacs le 10 septembre.
Un retour et une nouvelle direction pour ce groupe qui a commencé par la drum and bass et le trip hop toujours teinté de jazz. "On a ride" est un retour à une formule plus concise avec le même groupe de musiciens officiant sur l’album : le guitariste Zeke Zima, le bassiste Jesse Murphy et le batteur Jojo Mayer. La musique se fait ici plus pop, les mélodies et les 10 ballades de l'album sont dans la pure veine de l'Americana. Wax Poetic, dès ses balbutiements en 1997, a été le projet vocal du compositeur Ersahin avec des artistes comme Norah Jones à ses débuts, Saul Williams, U-Roy, N’Dea Davenport ou Bebel Gilberto. Ici Norah Jones pose sa voix sur un titre "Fall away" tandis que Sissy Clemens, Gabriel Gordon, Natalie Walker et Jovanotti chantent sur les autres titres de cet album surprenant et enchanteur.
Tracklist : 01 No escape 02 Good & evil 03 Tonight 04 Fall away 05 Beautiful 06 East side 07 Times moves on 08 Warm night 09 Solitude 10 On a ride
Un album tout simplement envoutant, où l'ambiance feutrée accompagne divinement la voix aérienne si singulière de Bronagh Slevin.
Purple ou Close to my Eyes font indiscutablement partie de ces rares titres qui dès la 3ème écoute s'imprègnent au plus profond de l'âme. Les beats lents et lourds confèrent aux titres une rare profondeur et les mélodies résonnent inlassablement. Les accompagnements au violon servent très bien l'ambiance ethérée de l'album. D'autres titres plus légers comme Flame ou Reverle n'en demeurent pas moins empreints d'une certaine mélancolie.
Finalement, après avoir écouté les 10 chansons de l'album, on se ressent comme bouleversé, changé au plus profond de nous.
Un véritable chef d'oeuvre, une perle méconnue mais à mes yeux tout aussi belle qu'un Dummy ou Londinium. Dommage que Crustation se soit séparé ... A découvrir absolument !
Tracklist : 1. Hey 2. Purple 3. Close my eyes 4. Face the waves 5. Reverie 6. Down down 7. Falling 8. Flame 9. Life as one 10. Ride on
Archive have done pretty much whatever the hell they wanted their whole career. Take trip-hop and add a string section to cheese it up, only to have it work perfectly? Sure. Add prog rock elements to trip-hop, because what’s cooler than that? Yep. Make a trip-hop album (in its own way – perhaps we should call it “rave-hop”) in 2012 when the genre is all but comatose? Of course.
It’s that last one that really matters here because it’s exactly what Archive have done with their new record, With Us Until You’re Dead. Yes, Archive have crafted what may be the best trip-hop album of the year. Which, certainly, isn’t saying much considering it isn’t the late ‘90s anymore. Yet it all makes sense because, hey, the London collective have always done things their own way.
Despite that, Archive have come close to mainstream composition before. ‘The Empty Bottle’, for example, contained “big” chords and a chorus ripe for a 20,000-person singalong. This time around, it’s done on ‘Conflict.’ The difference is that this time, the arena-ready anthem is built around skittering drums, pulsing sonics and a staccato vocal hook. Perhaps ‘Conflict’ is better suited to a rave, but who says a rave can’t be held at O2?
They’ve also done grimy club rock before, as in ‘Men Like You’. With Us’s closest parallel here is single ‘Violently’. It’s certainly grimier than anything they’ve done with a rock-tinge, and grimier than anything they’ve done ever. The soundscape is built around the kind of chords usually reserved for the score for a historical film epic, but since this is Archive and not John Williams, it’s laid over buzzing synths and held together with a stomping beat. You can practically see the Gladiators fight under hazy strobe lights.
“Constantly in motion”, then, appears to be the lyrical theme of the album. And it’s a cynical perpetual motion at that – as in, being hurt and moving on. ‘Hatchet’ is the most literal example of this, with a collection of hypotheticals centered on the narrator giving a (former) lover various weapons only to be betrayed: “If I had a pistol, it’d be yours to have/You can shoot me in the head, blow a hole in my back”. Then there’s ‘Twisting’, an attempt to reconcile reality during the push/pull of a broken heart. But best of all is the aforementioned ‘Violently’, which has both one of the best matter-of-fact lines in recent memory (“I’m mentally fucked”), and perhaps the best concluding lyric of the year (“When I close my eyes/I think of how you died/Died in me/So violently/Quietly”).
So, With Us Until You’re Dead is just Archive being Archive. Yes, the record’s a tad pretentious. Yes, it not easy to swallow or trendy. Yes, this album is a bit sad. But, here’s the trade-off: you won’t find Dr Luke or Max Martin or Shellback anywhere in the liners. If nothing else, we can be thankful for that.
Tracklist : 1. Wiped Out 6:20 2. Interlace 4:42 3. Stick Me In My Heart 3:57 4. Conflict 5:01 5. Violently 6:24 6. Calm Now 3:53 7. Silent 5:39 8. Twisting 4:01 9. Things Going Down 1:51 10. Hatchet 4:15 11. Damage 6:49 12. Rise 2:49
