Sit down and reflect and let those beautiful pianos skim the water s surface. This release also features a bonobo recording exclusive to the release, a stunning cover of Donovan s "Get Thy Bearings, " as well as an depth personal track comments by Simon Green aka Bonobo and an exclusive spoken word piece by A list actor Benedict Cumberbatch Star Trek/The Hobbit/Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Not only that, the unsettling sounds of lapalux or maybe even shlomo pierce the misty evening air, but there s Bonobo s special LNT cover version, a brilliant reading of Donovan s "Get Thy Bearings, " As the light dims, before giving way to the ethereal splendour of Eddi Front s "Gigantic" or even Nina s paean to an imagined rural idyll "Baltimore.
It could be the great ouse, as willows weep into the water; it could even be in Brooklyn overlooking the Lower East Side, as the sun slides down the sides of the skyscrapers. Amble down to the riverside. Stepping forward into the compilers spotlight for the 33rd edition is Simon Green aka Bonobo a musician, producer and DJ perfectly suited to soundtrack an evening spent reclining to some parallel beats.
Six albums to the good, green has been on a winning streak since 2010 s breakthrough Black Sands. Wrapped in delicately programmed drums, Green s music is at once both somber and reassuring.
Migration
Green, meanwhile, built the structure of the track during a transatlantic flight another meaning of Migration rests in the fact of making large chunks of the record while out on the road. Over time, the identities of new places evolve. It is a theme with a personal as well as a sociological aspect to it.
Opener and title track "migration" sets the tone for the record - a shifting, gradually building combination of complex electronic programming Green programmed a special algorithm to create the drum sequencing and live piano playing, the sense of movement in the music is palpable. Simon green aka bonobo returns with his sixth album, the masterful, magisterial Migration - a record which cements his place in the very highest echelons of electronic music and beyond.
Nick murphy formerly known as chet faker, on the other hand, is from Australia, but a shared love of disco brought the pair together for the hugely emotive "No Reason. Nicole miglis of hundred waters delivers a superbly understated vocal for the glistening textures of "Surface, " while Moroccan band Innov Gnawa, based in New York, make up the last of the vocals, offering real grit and beauty to the housey shuffle of "Bambro Koyo Ganda.
North Borders
. The north borders' is a long stride forward - both a natural evolution and a continuation of the electronic palette of Black Sands.
Black Sands
Late Night Tales
Late Night Tales
Also features tracks from The Durutti Column, The Chills, The Jacobites and Felt.
Animal Magic
Late Night Tales
Trentemoller is the Dane who did. No. For it's in the dark beauty of low's tremulous Amazing Grace' or even the way that the Shangri-Las' Remember Walkin' In The Sand', surrounded by t. He's been making electronic music of one kind of bent or another for over 15 years, first making his name as part of Trigbag, a live house act that toured extensively.
It's just a little indicator to reassure you we know the way. You can hear that yearning in his productions and its evident here, a sort of Protestant northern European melancholy. He is aided on his journey towards the Baltic by some heavy hitters, Mazzy Star, of course: Velvet Underground, This Mortal Coil.
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Days to Come
Dial M for Monkey
One Offs Remixes & B Sides
