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artist : chari chari
title : spring to summer
year : 2000
genre : lo-fi
label : file records
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ripper : pooley^
rls-date : 19-jan-2001
encoder : fhg radium mp3 codec v1.263
quality : 192kbps/44,100hz
source : compact disc
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01 flow dub outta borneo 6:46
02 spring ocean (smoker's delight) 5:24
03 across the universe 7:55
04 the sun song 4:56
05 udu spiral monkey dance 6:02
06 life in flow motion 6:46
07 solar - pass 1:36
08 buddha & jewel 7:08
09 we 5:04
10 ti burung 3:44
11 subtropica 7:46
12 enter the metal circle 4:14
12 tracks (01h 07m 21s)
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>> includes a ticket to the deep forests and jungles of africa and
southeast asia
i couldn't have started off the new millenium any better. this
album is one of the strongest of the year 2000, and it almost
escaped the kW "we know what's good" scope =) but it's here for
your listening pleasure.
note: track 12 had to be ripped through analog mode, as it couldn't
be ripped digitally.
"imagine if a sampler could travel to the jungles of southeast
asia, visit a japanese shrine on new year's day, and wallow in the
religious music of borneo.
"spring to summer" is that sampler as a musical postcard sent along
a chain of destinations around the world, picking up bits of local
sounds along the way and fusing them with all the other sounds that
have come before.
this postcard bears the sonic stamps and postmarks of brazil, bali,
west africa and east asia, plus the digital fingerprints of europe
and japan.
the postcard gets carried around tokyo in a dj bag where, by some
mystery of "x-files" science, it's fused further with the contents
of the records: techno, minimal, house. before arriving in your
letterbox, it gets passed around a jazz club and witnesses a salsa
lesson. that's "spring to summer".
it's a sophisticated collection rooted in deep, meditative textures
and serene organic samples: the sounds of insects, birds,
rainforests, wind and surf. its indigenous musical sounds are woven
carefully into the fabric of electronica and jazzy grooves. it's
beautiful. almost perfect.
chari chari is the moniker for tokyo-based kaoru inoue and his
handpicked line-up of sound sculptors, musicians and
percussionists. apart from the "ethnic" organica, it's the
percussion and rhythms that stand-out. and the way these work with
the album's laidback keyboards and sampling makes for a
well-crafted balance between digital tech and nature: balinese
bells and s3000s; ghanaian shakers and crickets; slot drums and
programming.
originally a guitarist and club dj, inoue has seen it all, heard it
all, played it all, and now, armed with the confidence of an artist
who has found his own voice, he has arrived on a tropical paradise
isle that's the musical equivalent of phuket's natural landscape,
minus all the crap tourists and their crap traps." - NICHOLAS BLACK
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greetings to sweetbeats, quadrophenia, sour, mindscape, deephouse
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