Archive for September, 2008

In the train – ONLY in the train

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Sunday morning. Indian summer day ahead. I am on the way out of Copenhagen. I am tired. I am looking at the still long shadows from the early sun.

I am in the train. Car gave up on me yesterday, so I am in the train with my laptop.

In the train. In the train.

Like any other office clerk on the way to work.

 

The landscape rolls by me very quickly while I am listening to Mike Sheridans new CD “I syv sind”. Seems like a very nice atmosphere is building up in these tracks.

The sounds are blending beautifully with the impersonal sounds and messages  from the train – like it was meant to be a mixture of Mike Sheridans dubby chilled sounds and the metal sounds and boring voices coming from the train.

 

Now we are driving just beside the motorway. The cars are floating along nicely, like were they controlled from the same remote. And maybe they are – maybe we all are.

That would be a new and funny conspiracy strategy – everyone and everything in this world is triggered by one – just one – remote.

The power that controls it is beyond black matter, black holes, infinity theories, relativity theories and  any – however sophisticated – forms of communication and language.

The most fantastic works of art and literature and music is like simple first grade math compared to this remote control.. controller. The mother of all controllers.

Controller, yes that is the word.

That would be some theory to write and talk about. People would spend days and months of their life figuring out how someone can keep control of everything like this. And they will try and find all the evidence they can to prove their paranoid theory.  crazy. It’s an evil path.

 

Maybe better to spend time on being present in what it is you are doing right now. Like being in the train and just being there, not writing your blog. Hmm.

That be the dishes or the nine o´clock news or the loop on your computer screen or the music in your head or the pain in your heart or the sensation you have of the newly cut grass you are lying on.

Anyway, I am off again. – riding the train. Riding the train, riding.

 

Downbeat and chill out artist Ganga.

 

<a href=”http://www.ganga.dk”>Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music</a>

 

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grey day approaching and FOCUS FOCUS

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

I have had some busy days and still has, but fortunately mostly with fun stuff. If it was only always like this!! Trying to stay focused on the important things. I guess if they are important enough its easy, and if they are not…. it can be difficult. Maybe thats the time when you should know what to dismiss and what to focus on. To much stuff going on right now.

I just got the pictures back from a video shoot with Claire Ross-Brown. They are making the video for the track “Assassin”  – (listen here) – and they made some really cool artwork.

Really looking forward to see the video after having seen this artwork.

I am gonna fire up ableton now and move some odd shapes back and forth on the screen whille listening to their weird little sounds – both alone but also together. Together is best – no waveform is an island. Its almost like they are humans, but I guess they are not. At best they are organized by A human – me. Humanising them – great word, HUMANISING – dont know if it even exists outside this crazy little blog. It does, I am sure.

Okay I am astray now, but thats a really good place to be before you start working. It can take a while to get there though…. I am there now.

Bye for now.

<a href=”http://www.ganga.dk”>Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music</a>

 

 

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Claire Ross-Brown “Complexity” – release 30th sept.

Monday, September 15th, 2008

I know I am repeating myself a little, but I am just thrilled about this new album with danish/british singer Claire Ross-Brown that we are releasing tuesday the 30th sept.

The first single was released last year – before I was involved in the projekt – and is called two sisters. Its produced by Berry Sode and written by Claire and Berry. You can watch the video here.

The next video is called “Assassin” and is very near to being finished. We hope to premiere it on the release the 30th sept. This track I produced. Its almost a bit James Bond like in the atmosphere.

All lyrics on the album is by Claire and they are very personal writings.

The album is very electronic sounding, but still with lots of acoustic instruments also. I would say definitely some influence from Massive Attack and maybe Everything But The Girl.

One track is produced by Gauzz.

Some tracks are actually chill out like in their calmness and overall its a downtempo album I would say – electronic downtempo with a little psychedelic dreamness inbetween.

Check out more on Claire here.

<a href=”http://www.ganga.dk”>Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music</a>

 

 

 

 

The history of chill acc. to wikipedia

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

I just wanted to share this chill out background article with you.

Chill out History

The earliest mentioned ‘chill out room’ was at the legendary Madchester nightspot, Konspiracy[1]. In these rooms, visitors would find couches, comfortable pillows, psychedelic light shows projecting trippy images and music that was decidedly downtempo, especially when compared to what was going on a few feet away on the dance floor. Its history began in the UK, with new wave band The Durutti Column being an abstract influence on the genre in the ’80s. Higher Intelligence Agency (the HIA) helped move the chill room concept from sideshow to main event with their Oscillate chill party events in Birmingham and elsewhere in the early to mid nineties. Their first releases came out on the now defunct Beyond record label and soon thereafter in the U.S. on the Waveform label – who describes the music as ‘exotic electronica.’

A number of compilations with “Chill Out” in their titles were released in the mid-1990s and beyond, helping to establish the genre as being very closely related to downtempo and trip hop but also incorporating, especially in the early 2000s, slower varieties of house music, nu-jazz, psybient, and lounge music. The genre also includes some forms of trance music, ambient music, and IDM, and it has entirely subsumed the older genre Balearic Beat, although that term is still used interchangeably with chill out. Chill out is generally tonal, relaxing (or at least not as “intense” as other music from the styles it draws from), although when used to describe the music played in chillout rooms at raves, it can also encompass extremely psychedelic experimental sounds of great variety.

 <a href=”http://www.ganga.dk”>Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music</a>

“Complexity” – debut album from Claire Ross-Brown

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Check out this new album from danish/british singer Claire Ross-Brown – www.musicclaire.com

This is what the press – or some it says:

   

“Claire has taken us by surprise with painfully honest lyrics and cool, contemporary music, making it an album that is already tipped “ahead of its time”.
Denise Burt
 
One saying one thing, one saying another, we walked up and down the stairs

So scared, frightened, clinging to each other thinking

 

whose side should we choose
The tall man we didn’t really know who called himself our daddy
Or the mother, the only one we knew but clearly just as wacky
Help us! Help us!

 

 

 

from the song Two Sisters

 Many of the lyrics on the album, all written by Claire herself, are tough and personal. They touch on taboos such as violence, cutting and addiction. But there are also songs with lighter subject matter like South Beach – about the good life in Miami – and The Office, a song about a woman out to seduce.The music, like the text, is innovative and artistic. It is difficult to determine the style, but it hits the nerve of our time. Both life-affirming and uncompromising, it stirs the emotions and creates a strong contrast with Claire’s naked and innocent vocals. A fascinating combination that you could describe as “Lyric-downbeat – electronica” with a hint of “cinematic lounge”.

Claire was born and raised in London in a dysfunctional family where violence was normal and relations were clouded by lies and fear.

Complexity has been a journey of memory and soul-searching for Claire who today lives with her Danish husband and their shared children in Copenhagen. Despite her turbulent home-life, Claire thrived at the Corona Academy of Performing Arts in London, where she studied singing, dancing and acting. Her talent was allowed to unfold in a environment that fostered other well-known artists such as The Spice Girls, Patsy Kensit and Leona Lewis.

Producers Berry Sode and Ganga (Christian Rønn), have worked with Claire Ross-Brown’s lyrics and melodies to create a polished and intense musical universe.

Complexity is an appropriate title for an album that combines the exploration of the artist’s emotional inner-life with an exciting musical universe to create a collection of songs that are easy to listen to and yet thought-provoking.Berry Sode and Ganga have many years experience producing, composing and re-mixing international and Danish artists such as Atomic Kitten, Mel Gaynor (Simple Minds), Maria Montell, Peter Peter, Hanne Boel, Buda, DJ Ravin and Kenneth Bayer. 

Complexity is released on the 29th september 2008

<a href=”http://www.ganga.dk”>Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music</a>