Le Lotus Bleu
2009-06-14_17:35
[img:2gbsgfhp]http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/5391/clcd015800pix.jpg[/img:2gbsgfhp] Tracklisting: 1)Under pressure 2)Weeper on the shore 3)Night diving 4)Just the sea 5)When the clouds come 6)Diving 7)Beyond the ocean
Underwater Dub (Letter to Egypt)
9)Driving (Cydelix remix)
10)Vin del mar (remix for Red Eye Express)
11)Hoover (Zero Cult remix)
D Batistatos has nothing to do with the American catcher Dave Batista which has Filipino origins whereas Dimitris Bastistatos is from Greece. This is his second album , the first one was Architect also on Cosmicleaf.
Inside the cd following the tracks =>
1)Dub warm with soft morning colourful tones close to 2nd album of Kuba on Chillcode or some productions from another Greek Psy-Dub well known artist Gabriel Le Mar under his project Dub Connected.
2) Emotional & ultra melodic tune with, among other instruments violin, pan flute conferring, a special harmonic & orchestral feeling.
3)Back to dub with acoustic guitar in guise of accompaniment this time, this track is especially rich in its multi-layered way with a pensive, dreamy mood.
4)Focuses from start on piano melody then concentrates on the acoustic guitar, you've got a close feeling such as in Children from Robert Miles despite the production is completely different in their respective forms.
5) If you're fond of emotional melodic piano lines (here the piano got the main eventer role); you'll be pleased here, simple, sober & effective.
6)Like hypnotized or stunned, is the position in which puts you this tune, more passive than really controlling the elements : a spectator.
7)The song could have been called "songe from a summer night" reflecting the moment when in the beginning of the night , the heat decrease & you start perceiving some chilled breeze.
Time for old school influenced Dub, with a pumping loop of trumpets reminds me some old stuffs from Klf in the White Room album with samples from King Tubby.
9)Surfing on the old power, D Batistatos brings us (with help from Cydelix for the remix) now an eclectic mix a of 70's vocal soul-funk piece with a Sade's pop hit from the 80's meaning soft warm sounds capes & exotic percussions and for the finish a slight hint of a more current electronic touch, via dreamy clubby Ibiza Trance-house few notes.
10)As part of a remix work, indeed you won't see the difference here between it & the own produced Batistatos, so no worries here if you dig up to now the sound delivered.
11)In guise of conclusion, we've got a remix from Zero Cult, which contrasts the most with the rest, even the Cydelix's one was perfectly matching with the spirit of the album. Furthermore i'd say it even denatures the global music orientation displayed since the beginning, it's a pity to conclude on this one according to me. It's somehow the only black point, reproach, i'll formulate for the whole album.
Verdict=>
The 2 main attractive characteristics of Weeper On The Shore consist in:
- the classical musical background highly reflected all along the D Batistatos's songs through the intensive multi- use of instruments.
- consequence to the first statement, leads to a massive "story telling" entertaining capacity coming out the whole album that obviously can't be other than adapted, recommended to all fans of Chill melodic dreamy music.
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