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V/A Ear Pleasure (Chill Tribe) 2007
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Fragletrollet
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Chill tribe Records came as a surprise to the relaxed trippers in 2005 when they/he (PKS) released the very first CTR release. People got their eyes and ears open to his compiling skills and had wet dreams about the artists being involved. This is the third release in his pleasurable VA series and this time he topped himself with names known from the earlier Goa-Trance days and other acts that had managed to build a steady reputation as serious trippers with musical skills worthy of the respect they gained. Here we are about to dive inside a new chapter of Chilladelic sounds from all over the globe with mature beats to woggle your cradle and creative sounds to tickle your aural organ.
V/A - Ear Pleasure (Chill Tribe Records) 2007 (CTRCD03)
Album-Art: http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=838797
01 Robert Leiner - Beginning Of The End 7:32
02 Blue Planet Corporation - Gengis Khan's Reverie 7:34
03 Kris Kylven & Syb-Sonic - Forgotten Souls 12:08
04 Cosmosis - The Himalaya 6:59
05 Digital Mystery Tour - Nemo 6:03
06 Slot Machine - Quick And The Dead (Snake Thing Dub Remix) 6:34
07 Kiwa - Inside 6:59
08 Highpersonic Whomen - Free Space 6:51
09 Bluetech - Embrace 6:12
10 Zen Lemonade - Island Of Forgotten Dreams 7:47
Some track by track words:
01. From silence sneaks a musical piece with sounds crumbling up your ear passage to inner drum of reflection in dedication. The beats quietly build around static frequencies with background sounds and voices to be raised into delightful elements of pleasurable sounds and subsonic echo of a dubby bass with strange summer breeze.
02. Playful sounds blimps while strings of comfort and expectations jumps in the lap of a leftfielders tune where the build strongly and firmly gets toward a dub realm of escalating sounds and humming shamans with sitars and squinty effects . The vibe and feel is as strange as one can expect from experimental ChillOut delivered by a set of acoustic audio freaks with chillums.
03. Ambience of space revived by dreamcatchers sets the mood with mountain callings of the Great Spirit playing didgeridoo. The setting is nature filled with a lot of nice details (like all of the tracks represented in this VA). As the bassline kicks in I get a feeling of masters at work, its bleep dives deliciously inside my ears and the visions are getting fat while tribal elements surrounds my being of light and comfort. What a beautiful melody, the universal travels in this one is mighty and euphoric with chanting voices raising the spiritual level. Beautiful work like this leaves me feeling blissful and competent yet eager to reach even higher levels of consciousness because this is inspirational and divine for you and me to be and see hidden worlds of forgotten magic.
04. Swaying wind from the Himalayan peaks caresses a void as the deep dubass with chanting prayers fills the air with their blessing of love to be and feel. A beautiful blues guitar joins the play with melodic strings to stroke your chakras from where Gods rest and watch while feeling sort of amused and pleasant by our humanitarian sanity. I’m very much a fan and an appreciator of Cosmosis’ work of delightful layers and acid lines that sets a perfect trance to your meditational aspect. This track is beautiful in all its vision and belief, but I have some problems connecting to the crying man chanting his beautiful love and devotion.
05. Feelings are getting more wired, the elevator to stars and cosmic relations gets a massive dance boom of tribal filled gardens and volcanic depth. The melody is lurking and strangeness as the track evolves with space and drum. The feel and vibe isn’t exactly what I crave but it works well enough. This is defiantly music for the Serengeti with mystical creatures roaming around like festive jumpers of time.
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[ .. the second part ]
06. Funks the word, dub’s the bass and levitation is the effect. A beautiful layer with heightened blues play gets a powerful addition from a woman’s voice that seems to truly raise the level in dedicated musicality. This is for me one of the highlights as this funk is groovy and heavy like slick slot machines ready to dingding’sing you into vivid colours of emotional delight. These feelings for me are bliss, and defiantly not piss.
07. Strong techno dub for the groovy ones, creative effects for the drowsy clowns. It’s a pleasure to ear the strong and immense tracks by people with musical gifts. Quality is evident as the (again) blues guitar with crunchy sounds and funky melodies strikes your headspace of a creative race. The flute touch is truly pleasant and swings the hoolahoops into a rotating fresco without the waterbus fundamentalism.
08. There is no free space and we are all waiting for some sort of contact. Funky groove is still strongly present as PKS, the compiler and record label boss has been building the mood and setting us up for an upraised chillization dancing behind staggering beats and dubby civilizational distress. For me this is quality music straight through, but I got some problems really enjoying its vibe because of personal taste and feel of groove.
09. Abstract journeys of selfish liberation, beautiful tingling strings swing their emotional tears around a wide open eye of non-judgementalism. Or so it can seem. Bluetech is a talented soul with his own divine dub of soft play and technological landscapes. One can argue that if you’ve heard one Bluetech tune you’ve sort of heard them all, and this is defiantly no exception. I embrace the blips and beeps coming out of Bluetech’s imagination and emotional being, though I’m sure I’ve heard this beautiful track many many times before with minor variations. Still, it’s good Bluetech sounds that I think we all love and adore to some degree of agreement.
10. A baby is born into a world of hope and endless possibilities, we all hold the key to realize that heaven is here, right now – never far away. There is no reason to not smile when the sun hits your face and there is no reason to not giggle when water splashes on to your body. There is so much beauty in this world of ours, all of us, animals and plants, humans and rocks. Our compassion, our gift to love and care for each other is something to remember and practice, and there is hope in a smile and knowledge in a beautiful aliening eye. Care for your mother like a mother cares for her child. Care for a child like a mother cares for you, deep inside. Heaven in your thoughts, divinity in your hopes – When will we all realize that we are already here, surrounded by bliss of our mother Gaia’s warm and safe womb. I would like to remind us all; don't pick the scabs or you will never heal. ( - Jeg elsker og savner deg mamma, der du er å svømmer i det evige kosmos av kjærlighet og guddommelighet .. )
Recommendations: Dub is the word with experimental and psychedelic atmospheres for ants to crawl and giants to listen and create. Some of the tracks sort of seems to have been built around a theme and doesn’t really lead anywhere except to a pleasure of receiving sonic vibrations to the ear and beyond. I have owned this release since it was released in 2007 (It’s now end of 2009) and it took me time and growth to truly appreciate and understand the music presented inside Chill Tribe Records Ear Pleasure. I knew when I first got and listened to this VA that I was in possession of something utterly creative, psychedelic and funky. I respected and liked some of the contributions on it, but I for some reason couldn’t manage to really flow with it as the vibe is and was sort of experimental and dubby, sort of strange I think.
I see now clearer then before that this is music made by highly creative musicians with years of musical experience and that it is compiled by a person who has a lot of inner respect and love for what he transmits out to the listeners. Unfortunately I’ve never had the opportunity to hear a DJ-set by PKS, but as I’ve said before in a previous review of one of his releases, I would trust my trip-experience in his magic any day or night. I am extremely happy to own this release and it’s a proud feeling to see so many great and respected names on the track list. Only thing missing in my book is an Altitudes track (Which was presented on both previous VA’s), and a Norwegian contribution..
As always the VA's released by Chill Tribe Records is with a booklet filled with goodies like words about the artists and pictures of their beings. The artwork by Marmelade is beautiful and thought lingering as usual and PKS' skills in giving you a ride through sonic visions and beautiful revisions is as masterful as one could hope for. And it’s worth a mention that the mastering is done by Tim Schults and Detlev Funder @ 4CN Studios, Germany.
I guess I would like to sum this review up with a couple of key words: Sophisticated in dub, experimentalism in groove, funk and trip factor in jazzy atmospheres. It’s ChillOut for mature listeners wanting something else then light and easy accessible down-tempo music with trance flow.
Favorite Tracks: 1(!), 2, 3(!!), 4, 5, 6(!!), 7(!), 8, 9(!), 10(!!)
Where to buy and other links:
CTR-home: http://chilltriberecords.com
CTR-Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/label/Chill+Tribe+Records
CTR-MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/chilltriberecords
Psyshop.com: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/ctr/ctr1cd003.html
Saikosounds: http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display_release.asp?id=6393
Play.com: http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/3356804/Ear-Pleasure/Product.html
Beatspace: http://beatspace.com/dettagli/dettaglio.asp?id=3332
Juno.co.uk: http://beatspace.com/dettagli/dettaglio.asp?id=3332
More relaxed reviews: http://www.myspace.com/psytonesmusic
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