s w e e t b e a t s
november.20.2000 - #331
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artist : Koop
album : Sons of Koop
year : 1997
label : Superstudio
genre : Lo-Fi
catalogue : 74321478882
url : www.superstudio.nation.se
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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01 Introduktion 1:47
02 Gl÷md 4:53
03 Psalm 4:38
04 Bjarne Riis 2:46
05 Absolute space 5:05
06 Words of tranquility 5:13
07 Salvation 5:05
08 Jellyfishes 6:53
09 Once britten 4:07
10 Hellsbells 4:03
10 tracks | 00h 44m 30s | 61MB
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Imagine yourself in a picture. You're in a forest. It has just
stopped raining. A few rays of sunshine dance on a bog in the
forest. It looks like fairies dancing to greet the warming light. A
thin fog is lying like milk between the trees and it is cold and
totally still. You hear music. It is the sound of Koop and it is
the perfect soundtrack to a picture like this.
But Koop is more than just the soundtrack of a forest-dream. The
gentlemen behind the album and the name - Oscar Simonsson and
Magnus Zingmark, built their studio in a cabbin on a small island
far from the city. But every weekend they went into town to go to
clubs and this too is reflected in the music. The result is a
strange mixture of urban and rural sounds.
None of the songs can really be called "club-song", though. In
stead it is a nice blend of jazz and ambient techno that I have
never heard before, even though names such as Tricky and Massive
Attacks later work comes to mind (but they lack the unmistakeable
sound of scandinavian nature and climate - cold, dark and
desolate).
One of the songs is called Bjarne Riis and it is named after the
danish cyclist that won the Tour de France race last year.
According to the Koop-team the song is arranged as a race and the
listener follows Bjarne on his struggle through the French
mountains.
It is very typical for Koop to have this kind of idea behind each
song, where the sound creates animpression or an image. Another
example is the 8th track, Jellyfishes which is about the tragical
Estonia accident in which more than 1000 people drowned in the
Baltic Sea.
Koop is in a way very Scandinavian. The music is melancholic and
slow, dark and cold, silent and lonely, yet beautiful and
emotional. I guess that listening to this record sitting in an
apartment in, for example, Los Angeles or on a beach on Hawaii
would be a weird experience. --Fuzzlogic
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