Blackfish - Hidden Shore
OGG Vorbis | 500 kbit/s ABR | 44.1 Khz | Stereo | 63:47 Min | 229.41 Mb
Label: Maxelect Records [MXE012-2] | Original Release Date: January 3, 2005
Styles: Electronic, Ambient Dub, Trip-Hop, Downbeat, Lounge, ChillOut
Maximilian Lopp and Andreas Bassermann have been keeping their fans and friends waiting for a new work from the Blackfish forge for almost two years now. These have been two years without atmospheric trip hop, profound downbeat and electronic jazz. It seems like ages have past since the first Blackfish album “Pole Navigation” made its mark.
But if you ask the artists, the long period between the debut and the new long player seems to have been planned. They needed the time to release themselves from their bonds so they could work more freely. “Hidden Shore”, the result of the well-earned, but still very busy break, is certainly impressive. Distancing themselves from conventional chill-out productions and synthetic Ibiza compilations, Blackfish play with sounds and loops, use unusual voices and sounds that form an extremely aesthetic pattern and leave the listener silently crying for more. Perhaps it would be best to call the music advanced chillout as the influences from jazz and blues along with the sometimes abstract sounds, which are reminiscent of Björk or Massive Attack, seem to break the otherwise subtle harmonies without destroying them.
Artists like MC Santana, J. Peter Schwalm and DJ Double D. definitely share the responsibility for the new direction taken by Blackfish. Their style was obviously injected into “Hidden Shore” during their collaboration. This record features twelve songs that not only feel like individual tracks, but also tell a wonderful story in the overall context. It only remains to hope that Blackfish will not keep us waiting again for so long... ~ maxelect.com
But if you ask the artists, the long period between the debut and the new long player seems to have been planned. They needed the time to release themselves from their bonds so they could work more freely. “Hidden Shore”, the result of the well-earned, but still very busy break, is certainly impressive. Distancing themselves from conventional chill-out productions and synthetic Ibiza compilations, Blackfish play with sounds and loops, use unusual voices and sounds that form an extremely aesthetic pattern and leave the listener silently crying for more. Perhaps it would be best to call the music advanced chillout as the influences from jazz and blues along with the sometimes abstract sounds, which are reminiscent of Björk or Massive Attack, seem to break the otherwise subtle harmonies without destroying them.
Artists like MC Santana, J. Peter Schwalm and DJ Double D. definitely share the responsibility for the new direction taken by Blackfish. Their style was obviously injected into “Hidden Shore” during their collaboration. This record features twelve songs that not only feel like individual tracks, but also tell a wonderful story in the overall context. It only remains to hope that Blackfish will not keep us waiting again for so long... ~ maxelect.com
~ Track Listings ~
01. Lost
02. Move On
03. Infinite
04. Corazon De Oro
05. Intermission
06. Bondi Beach
07. Watch Ya Wayz
08. Cerebro
09. Roots
10. Worth Fighting For
11. Together
12. Hidden Shore
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