Il nuvo album di Jessie Ware contiene diversi brani molto interessanti ed sicuramente ben confezionato.
Come di consueto sono stati commissionati diversi remix.
Il primo che propongo è firmato Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, che non sentivo da un po' ma ha realizzato un bel pezzo da ballare, per quanto lui non ne sia convinto al 100%:
“Belgian Italo disco remix for Jessie Ware I’ve just done. It currently feels like I’ll never get the chance to play this in a club, but fingers crossed.”
Quello che è iniziato come un casino di suoni classici degli anni '80 e '90, si è rapidamente trasformato in qualcosa di immediatamente unico e speciale per me. Penso che uno dei motivi per cui creare e scrivere il brano sia stato così divertente per me è sia che sia davvero in ogni senso della parola - sia dal punto di vista lirico che musicale - un "Inno" a Ibiza - uno dei miei posti preferiti al mondo. Penso che ci sia qualcosa di abbastanza magico nella capacità della musica di trasportarti in un determinato luogo o tempo e, per me, è quello che fa Ode. Cattura lo zeitgeist di Ibiza ed è per questo che il brano avrà sempre un posto speciale nel mio cuore e (spero) anche nel cuore di tutti gli amanti di Ibiza.
I’m so happy to put our new music out.... Ross and I have been working on this stuff since before everything changed. We have no scene. We are sceneless. It’s more the soundtrack to our friendship than anything else. Which is perfect. LOVE MINUS ZERO. Me and Hudson Mohawke Hardcore Romance by Hardcore Romantics. Made with love.
Together We Stand” talks about a community of people who devote their lives to the community. I wrote most of the album when I was on tour, and after the release of my first EP on Ed Banger, I saw this community around us and the electronic community [as a whole]. It’s a bit too cheesy for me to translate it like “hey, everyone is dancing on the dance floor and girls are beautiful,” so I chose a different way. I translated it as if it was a community all living together and dedicating a part of their life to the music. It’s almost talking about a cult.
I’m so addicted, I just can’t get enough
“work, freedom, listen, now, us!”Lo stile si avvicina ai vari Todd Terje, Lindstrøm o Prins Thomas.
Retour aux sources. On dirait un unreleased track époque 1995 chez Roulé.
"I’ve recorded my voice before but this time I tried to sing. I'm not a pro singer but I did my best!"
"I really wanted to represent different styles and moods on this EP, from 'open air' warm-up vibes to ‘proper party’. I tried to draw on all my influences of the last few years, from electro, African music, early 90s house music and also techno, especially Maurice Fulton and DMX Krew"
“Woke is a song about freedom, specifically my freedom. About me, at the end of the earth, pushed towards a final act of emancipation: throwing my phone into the sea, and watching it sink.”
“People may have a hard time empathizing with a successful DJ, or anyone who associates an annoying buzzword with anything approaching enlightenment. But I don’t think it’s that hard to relate to feeling like you’ve entered into a lopsided bargain with a magic box that is more or less designed to hack its way into your self-image. Call it an empty gesture, but as I hurled my phone into the water, it was very much an instance of facing up to something I knew wasn’t good for me, and finding some sense of release, if only for a moment.”
"it’s been one of the most enjoyable records to make in my life, if not the most fun ever (i think it is, for sure, the happiest i’ve ever been making a record.) so it will be sad in some ways to see it leave the house etc., but we’re really looking forward to not feeling “late” all the time, and being able to do things like plan a weekend to do something fun. or respond to an email about eating with a friend with something other than “i’m sorry! i’m totally buried in the LP! check with me in a month?"
"The title came to me while I was playing a pyramid that had been converted into a multi-purpose event space. The hieroglyphics over what is now the coat check made me imagine a world in which pictures could mean words and words could mean anything. The thing about wordplay is that it’s fascinating to conceive of different realities informed by different systems of meaning, and how each reality would invariably bend to vault me to the pinnacle of all possible worlds. It’s humbling, really."