Are you a fan of downbeat music, chill out and downtempo grooves? My name is Christian Ronn and I’ve released over 4 albums of downbeat and chill out music under the artist name Ganga, while touring, performing internationally and collaborating regularly with other artists in electronic, funk and world music genres. I am blogging regularly on the free chill out music blog, reviewing, recommending and showcasing new chilled beats and tracks from around the world. So make sure you’re signed up to my email list to receive ongoing updates on new chill, world, funk and electronic music as well as free chill out music downloads – including instant access to the track “Light” from my 4th album “Gaia” and another bonus track “Chioolin”.
School of Seven Bells has taken their magic seriously. Symbols, myths and mantras—in the hands of sisters/vocalists Alejandra and Claudia Deheza and guitarist/producer Benjamin Curtis, these mystical practices has become achingly human, methods of making sense of an emotionally very complex world. School of Seven Bells’ sophomore album Disconnect from Desire the follow-up to the Brooklyn trio’s breakthrough debut Alpinisms and takes its title from one of Brian Eno’s oblique stratagems; its’ cryptic album image is a “sigil,” a mystical figure containing the energy and intent of the whole album. The real magic of Disconnect from Desire, though, lives in the music: ten tracks of soaring, visionary beautiful dream-pop from a band working at the height of its powers.
On Disconnect from Desire, School of Seven Bells has focused the layered electronic textures and dense lyricism of Alpinisms to a razor’s point, distilling the music to its very essence as guitars ring, beats crunch, and the Deheza sisters’ voices intertwine with new, right-in-your-ears clarity. “I want you to know that I loved you,” Alejandra Deheza sings on “I L U”, lending emotional directness to the track’s maelstrom of synthesized atmosphere and gently curving samples; “Babelonia” lays the protagonist’s wounded psyche on top of a deep, baggy beat and overlapping, Stereolab-esque vocal tricks; “Dust Devil” matches a staccato, New Order-style bassline to the Dehezas’ distended melodies as the trio dips the toes into dance music and comes up glowing; and lead single “Windstorm” deftly evokes Eurythmics’ pointillist art-pop, slashed through with shoegaze guitars and sweetly menacing high falsetto. More than anything, Disconnect from Desire sounds huge, and each instrument and electronic blip complements its partners and contributes to an ever-expanding whole.
Disconnect from Desire is indeed a complete work—an old-fashioned album from forward-thinking minds, as thematically airtight as it is mind-bendingly beautiful. In the end, the “sigil” on the cover of Disconnect from Desire is the perfect analog to this music: strange and yet familiar, exquisitely rendered, breathtaking to behold.
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Website: http://www.schoolofsevenbells.com/
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