Mauro Sambo – electronics, zither, bass and contra-alto clarinets, flute, percussion, gong
George Cartwright – alto and tenor saxs, acoustic and electric guitar, “deer call”
The titles of the CD and the songs are taken from the book “Flussi” by Matilde Sambo
cover art – Mauro Sambo
from the series “myodesopsie”
What is the sound of a color? Is it the same as the color of a sound? If so, it must be both bright and dark, rich and dry. It must sing its hue to the world, and paint its pitch across the sky.
Featuring bass clarinet.
Breaks expose facets – facets offer perspectives. Such variety is less transparent, but it rewards amply. Yet it also carries risk – the danger of a a breach too far, and an edge too sharp.
Featuring piano.
“Stay well, stay kind to each other, do unto them as you would have them do unto you, be a good person, and enjoy music. This is the story of life. Enjoy music, and be a good person – be a good person to other people, and enjoy music. Then you’ve got it all.” – Sonny Rollins
Featuring jazz trio of organ, drum kit, and clarinet.
In the embrace of the unreal real, we are often overwhelmed. We chase loose notions, seeking candor but finding confusion. It is only through directness that we can discover our intention – act simply, and simply act.
Featuring tenor saxophone.
Entwined, betwixt and twisted – beneath a silken sheet. A before and an after, with a coupling on the beat.
Fertility is but assured, as opposites will meet. This is a fecund evening, where creation is complete.
Featuring alto saxophone.
This album reflects on the feeling of a world devolving into chaos and the associated anxiety, while grasping desperately for some kind of sense of normalcy throughout. It’s also about the retreat into apathy or aimlessness.
Secondly, this is an exercise in making musical choices that can stand out in in a world where music can be prompted into existence; or the resentment of even having to think about that in the first place.
Breaking in isn’t always about burglary – it can also refer to the process of getting a new thing settled. Fresh, crisp – but not yet pliable. It takes use and time for many materials to reach their optimal point.
Featuring clarinet.
It’s easy to unfocus – it only takes a moment. That moment can stretch and blur and become something else. Yet there’s more to all this than just being along for the ride. The capacity to experience is an unparalleled wealth.
Featuring piano.
You can go somewhere, come back – and not fully return. It is not a place you are attached to, but an idea – an experience, a feeling, a mind.
Featuring piano.
Precious things are often hidden. We choose to protect what we treasure by shielding it from prying eyes, and more. To a point, this is rational – but to a broader point, it’s inevitably best to share what we have.
Featuring alto saxophone.
Smell, like sound, permeates a space. But smell is physically inculcated onto and into the substances it reaches, where sound simply bounces off. Imagine experiencing music as a smell, allowing the sound to stay with you.
Featuring bass clarinet.
Coming from opposing directions, seemingly in disagreement – the triads belie tribalism. Within their cozy group the harmony is clear, but when considered in broader context it becomes uncertain. Yet this conflict is illusory – though they duel, the outcome of their combination is in fact a larger and more beautiful harmony than before.
Featuring electric keyboard.
Once upon a time there were two mice. Despite their size, they imagined a world where they could do whatever they wished – where all other forces submitted to their designs. They had this dream quite frequently – essentially, every night.
Featuring metronome and saxophone quartet – baritone, alto, tenor, and soprano.
What’s in a name? That which we call a channel, by any other name would be as off-topic.
Featuring improvised electric keyboard.
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”
So it goes.
So *something* goes. For now – until it becomes something else. Yet, still – the same.
Featuring bass clarinet, and breathing.
Periodically, things happen. The specifics depend upon whom they are happening to. Regardless, it can be understood as the union of two sets – that which is expected, and that which is not.
The expected is best met with preparation – practice makes perfect, when a thing can be practiced.
The unexpected requires something else – it asks of us a certain height. To achieve what we can, and to go beyond it, even – especially – imperfectly.
Featuring clarinet.
Local optima aren’t – plurality runs counter to true highs. Yet such sweet spots are satisfying nonetheless, and worth indulging in from time to time. Ideals, subjective or otherwise, are still a matter of perspective, and benefit from such reflection.
Featuring electric keys and effects.
A baffle makes all the difference. If baffled, consider – shifted. Though much remains similar, a new perspective offers altered wavelengths.
Featuring overdubbed tenor saxophone.
as if music would not be a message – We are very sure you know that and will listen. Music, no matter what musical genre you prefer, is always a message – and a language, spoken and understood by all.
Dear music lovers, Smooth Genestar did it again. Nearly 6 years passed since the release of his last album, and so he felt it has become time to cook some new, delicious groove snacks for you.
Within the last 18 months, he worked on a lot of tracks, all of them handcrafted for you with love. He worked obsessed on every little detail and every little feature, of course always with a subtle portion of humor, as you may notice on the one or other title of the tracks.
What can you expect from this brandnew release? Well, a handpicked choice of 22 tracks out of 30 tracks he has produced within the last 18 months. So, get ready for 4 hours and 3 minutes of deep, groovy, melancholic and tasty flavoured Downbeat, Lounge, NuHazz, TripHop and Chillout tunes – spiced with a good portion of retro flavours and deepness.
For that, he did some serious musical research and work to create authentic beatz, deep and rolling basslines and, of course, jazzy chords and dusty, livind pads and background atmospheres. Most of the musical spices is played and recorded live to keep the human touch.
Overall, you can say, his goal was to serve great tracks for your perfect or even unperfect moments. These 22 tracks will fit nearly all of your moods. May it be as background music while sitting with people you love, for doing your studies, for your way home after a hard day on work, for driving at night, for dreaming or just for your new years day chill out session.
Have a nice christmas and a happy new year!
And now… get into the tunez and enjoy the music!
With best wishes from germany,
CYAN
Smooth Genestar dedicates this music in love to Zeynep.
In addition, he pays tribute to Mr. Paul Hardcastle, a man and musician who influenced him absolutely most with his musically smoothness. Thank you for this kind of gentle smoothness!
Hung – over.
…
Perchance, to dream,
with visions of a better.
A better?
Sometimes, stopping is
good –
a suspension of maladaptive behavior.
Sometimes, stopping is.
Featuring clarinet.
Sometimes, we live. Sometimes, we rush, headlong into the many of the many and the concerns of the lesser and the greater and the in-between.
Sometimes, we live. Sometimes, we speed, from this to that to this again and this other this that was not even a that which we thought of.
Sometimes, we live. Sometimes – we breathe.
Featuring piano and orchestral strings.
