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Jazmina – In Our Time EP review

January 30, 2021 by admin
bossa, bossanova, folk, house, inourtime, jazmina, knoziz, soul, willywashington

The tinderbox roof-raising house heroics which have cemented Jazmina’s stellar club reputation down the years are put on pause in this quality five-track EP, packed tight with emotional pull and resonance.

In Our Time is a pearler of a package, that’s at once very much in our time and of our time. Its winter 2021 release – and in mind of the stuff everyone’s dealing with at this particularly fractious juncture doesn’t need labouring much further – is properly timely indeed. In Our Time brings our precious friend – time – to your door, to think deep and draw big, restorative breaths.

Lyrically and musically, the lead track flickers for the listener with a mindful, candlelit, slow-burn lure. Its gentle pace and simple melody light that very same candle for the timeless, object lessons which underpin the craft of good songwriting. What you receive in return has the plaintive quality of a childhood prayer; it’s an invocation to keep on keeping on as those struggles will – yes they will – ebb away, laced with the shy buds of spring just around the corner, promising renewal.

This EP is a prize proponent of those unshakable virtues of strong songs, where the strength is to be found in their seeming simplicity. That quality runs strongly from song one to five – start to finish and then back again, with Jazmina’s rich voice showcasing its spiritual soulful ache in every heartfelt lyric.

All five tracks take a bow as bossa-folk-infused melodic earworms – think Terry Callier and the early ‘70s Linda Lewis folk-soul school at their finest if you’re taking notes – that will pleasingly resonate on repeat through your day.

Track two Daylight takes a concerned, self-critical peer into the voids of widening silence and regret as a relationship shows its cracks. Then as the sun comes up the next morning, Peace in our Town shakes itself off to grab the new day with spring-like zest, a capricious skip down the street peppered with jaunty positivity.

The haunting introspections of Jazmina’s voice drive Travelling, with this bossa’s minor keys drawing on the timeless spirits of Jobim and Brazilian guitar great Luis Bonfa, while sensitive background vocals breathily snake across the peaceful piece.

At once stripped down, acoustic and percussive – the power of Jazmina’s vocal presence draws you in ever further on Hard for Me. The harmonised chorus lends a sympathetic ear, as the push-and-pull of love and doubt find a melodic outlet to wage their own internalised battle on this unmissable five-gem set.

Jazmina – In Our Time is released on February 1st 2021 and is available here

Willy Washington starring Gary Adams – Can You See My Light review

December 10, 2020
canyouseemylight, conan liquid, conanliquid, deephouse, garyadams, house, knoziz, thecriminal, willywashington

House DJ, producer, songwriting legend and Knoziz Recordings co-founder Willy Washington has a blinding backstory to the genesis of this incandescent floorfiller par excellence, which he shares with you here.

The deep dancefloor dish that is Can You See My Light is served in three illuminating ways, pooling the incendiary electronic talents of The Criminal and Conan Liquid.

Stabby, spiky, while lunging headlong into soaring and ethereal in barely a blink of a beat, The Criminal’s What Could Be Mix trips the Light fantas-mic as it makes its euphoric climb, climb, climb to a head-spinning house resolve, after the klaxon of drop-the-beat neatness.

Conan Liquid (Crates Motel Mix ¬– nice Psycho ref there, diggers) pours heaps of Ibiza azucar into the irrepressible party proceedings. Thrill to crunchy bass foundations showing no signs of subsidence, while Gary Adams’ uplifting vocal line fires skyward a beacon of hope and joy. Conan’s dub reimagining of Light meanwhile pursues a driving groove topped off with a swirling outro that meet up at just the right time.

Available now here

Berlon featuring Helen Webster – Living It Up review

August 30, 2019 by admin
berlon, dancemusic, helenwebster, house, knoziz, livingitup, vocalhouse

Knoziz Recordings’ Berlon (Berlin-London, see?) dance trailblazers are swishing straight out of the terminal and onto the autobahn of UK-Euro house sophistication with this lush classic in the making, showcasing the effortless poise, depth and grace of singer Helen Webster’s vocal stylings.

Pristine production and polish, smoothed to a finish with a killer life-enhancing hook single out Living It Up as the complete crossover deal, oozing heavy radio, club and home airplay credentials to the hilt.

And yes there’s those breakthrough vocals to savour, proferring a distinctly British pop-dance burr to a package of sound perfection, of which you lucky bods will be hearing much, much more.

Tap up both the Radio and Club mixes of Living It Up for guaranteed double-the-fun listening pleasures

Available here and all your favourite music sites.

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