secret love 4

12.10.2007 von mk.

With Secret Love 4 JAZZANOVA teamed up with Swiss DJ, producer and Drumpoet Community labelowner ALEX DALLAS so as to present various artists that all share with them the belief that Folk Music is a genre that transcends every predefined categories. For this 4th installment they tried to challenge commonplaces and clichés that go along with the idea of Folk Music without betraying the singer/songwriter tradition where the message conveyed is as important as the music played. They conceived this new opus like you choose a gift for someone you love. You don’t try to do better than the year before but you try to be inventive and original so as to surprise the loved-one and to see a smile illuminating his face and sparkles of joy in his eyes.
Many new talents in the field of folk and neo-folk such FINDLAY BROWN with Losing the Will to Survive or JAMIE WOON and his Wayfairing Stranger are here gathered to refresh our ears alongside with more experimented artists such as multi-instrumentalist and singer ANDREW BIRD with Imitosis taken from his critically acclaimed album Armchair Apocrypha or the 5-piece american neo-folk band MIDLAKE. Their tune Roscoe (beyond the wizard sleeve’s mix) with its contemporary grooves taken from their critically acclaimed album called ‚The Trials of Van is its sound and construction a beautiful definition of what modern folk is all about. From CLARA HILL with About You to THIEF with down down over to A RACE OF ANGELS with Afrika Displaced every artist give his personal meaning of the word Love. It is also interesting to see that ALEX DALLAS and JAZZANOVA experimented a bit more and chosed a few artists, who surprise us with a lesser known facet of their artistic personality. Minimal-techno producer KALABRESE will astound more than one fan with the tune Hide taken from his latest album Rumpelzirkus featuring Reggae-Soul singer GUILLERMO SOHRYA and his soulful and deep voice. Hip-hop DJ ZANE LOWE from New-Zealand, who reached the status of superstar with his own radioshow on BBC 1 in UK, reveals his soul and folky side through his band BREAKS CO-OP and a beautiful piece called Duet. Sonar Kollektiv’s first lady of dub, electro and house EVA BE completes the picture with a sublime acoustic version of her ballad She walks alone present on her recent full-length album Moving Without Travelling on Sonar Kollektiv’ dub and ragga sub-label Best Seven.
The guest appearance of singer/songwriter legend PAUL WELLER is the cherry on the cake. ALEX DALLAS and JAZZANOVA decided to pay hommage to his career by releasing the beautiful ballad The Loved, where his voice finds the perfect harmony between light acoustic guitar riffs and flute melodies for the happiest end you could possibly think of.

Label: sonar kollektiv

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