SInce I started this blog, I have been around many topics and arguably many non-topics, as it sometimes has been difficult to find out what the focus of the writings should be.
I dont know why it took me so long to figure out that the focus ofcourse is music and everything that has to do with music.
Sometimes its about the creation of the music itself – in generel or more specific about my own music and the whole practice of writing and producing the way I do.
Sometimes it has been about the world surrounding us, crazy stuff happening and thoughts about the nature of music and why we bother to care for music. The most abstract artform of all.
Isnt it just a waste of time – basically sometimes its entertainment, sometimes it can be enligtenment and sometimes a bit of both or nothing of the kind.
Music also comes in many disguises – go into the street and listen or go into the countryside
and open your ears.
Anyway, the writings in this blog is about music.
And then next many blogs I will write about other peoples music. TRacks or albums that I like or that inspires me.
I just got hold of the newest album from danish “Bliss”. Its called “No one built this moment”. All their albums are released on Music For Dreams – the danish chill out, downbeat label that does very well at the moment and releases artists such as Lulu Rouge and Aura.
I think the album must be the best they ever made. Its further away from New Age than ever before. If anything, some of the hypnotic tracks of the album is a bit trancy in their nature. This is a great thing I think, and makes the tracks breathe more. Not trancy synth lines, but in the way the guitar f.ex. plays the same line for one whole track.
The track “Calling” features Sophie Barker from Zero 7 and is a good example of this.
Hypnotic guitar line nearly all way through the track and an – admitedly – poppy Sophie Barker vocal on top. They make good use of the small guitar also. Dont remember the name of it, but it has a very distinctive high timbre and fiots the track great. AT the end the violin is a bit disturbing I think, but all in all a very good track.
The more I think of it, the clearer it is to me that it is Sophie Barkers vocal that is the most important ingredience on this album. She has a fantastic voice for this kind of music. “So Still” is a brilliant example of this.
“Stop me” is another track with Sophie Barker on it and he small guitar. STill cant remember the name of it. I use on my new album also. This track is a bit more uptempo but still goes down in a long breathy break in the middle of the track. Rest of the track is a bit electro dubby in the production style. Very suttle though. The best track on the album I think. Again Sophie Barkers voice tend to spread gold all over the track.
“Light to your life” is the only track with Sophie Barker where it sounds like the same recipe but without any content in the same league as the other Sophie Barker tracks.
For some reason Boy George sings on one of these tracks also (”American Heart”). He actually does it very well. Would have been fun to hear him just on top an acoustic guitar and not drenched in Bliss synthesizer pads. Nice chorus in this song. Didnt understand why they needed to have Alexandre Hamnede on this track. She sings well, but its actually more disturbing than rewarding.
Lets see if they dont make it on to another hollywood production with one of these cinematis tracks.
Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music
http://www.ganga.dk
http://www.flincmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/gangalounge
http://www.youtube.com/gangalounge
http://www.last.fm/music/Ganga
http://www.ilike.com/artist/Ganga
http://www.gangamusic.info
http://www.bandbase.dk/ganga
http://www.reverbnation.com/ganga