Six long years have passed since Bohren & The Club Of Gore released their last album with "Piano Nights". In 2020 the band finally presents its successor: "Patchouli Blue" is the band's eighth longplayer, the first album without drummer Thorsten Benning, who left the group in 2015. The trio has recorded eleven tracks, a unique mix of dark jazz, doom and ambient, as always instrumental, as always decelerated, another highlight in their discography.
Six long years have passed since Bohren & The Club Of Gore released their last album with "Piano Nights". In 2020 the band finally presents its successor: "Patchouli Blue" is the band's eighth longplayer, the first album without drummer Thorsten Benning, who left the group in 2015. The trio has recorded eleven tracks, a unique mix of dark jazz, doom and ambient, as always instrumental, as always decelerated, another highlight in their discography.
''I am you'', Marc Moulin’s new album is also his third for Blue Note, after "Top Secret" in 2001 and "Entertainment" in 2004. It carries us through peaceful soundscapes, along the sensual, sinuous banks of a river. The atmosphere is warm and damp. "Welcome to the club", the opener, ushers us into Moulin’s singular world. It’s a sort of club that he has owned for years already, but which he has re-decorated. A club in which each room shows a part of the musical life of the founder of Placebo (1971-1974, as charted in "Placebo Sessions" from 2006) and Telex.
The breakout star from the burgeoning Romanian dance scene that has also spawned the likes of Alexandra Stan and Edward Maya, permanently scantily clad Inna has been pivotal in restoring some musical pride to a country whose only previous notable contribution to the pop landscape was the Cheeky Girls. Produced by regular cohorts Play & Win, her second album, I Am the Club Rocker, picks up where her debut, Hot, left off, with 13 sun-soaked Europop tracks that appear destined to blare out of various Club 18-30 hotspots until the inevitable 6-a.m. stagger back to the hotel. As individual pieces of undemanding trance/house-lite pop, the summery flamenco-tinged "Un Momento" and "Endless," the Italo house throwbacks "No Limit" and "House Is Going On," and the dreamy chillout of "July" and "Senorita" all provide the necessary Mediterranean "booze cruise" vibes.