Wabi Sabi by Strictly Mint
STRICTLY MINT - WABI SABI
The album debut of the two musically well-traveled free spirits - a fresh trick. Cover albums? There are many. The break that covers can leave behind, Strictly Mint putty. The A-side of their cinematic trip-hop longplayer is populated by their own compositions, the B-side by covers. Everything becomes one. And the originals smell like covers. Done!
Two sides, two tasks, nine "Electric Evergreens", as Mark calls the complex, yet easily flying in with span. Their fine sense, for the sound intersections of the past and present, makes them intimately electrifying companions.
The vision on "Wabi Sabi": pairs songs that stage your vast musical collective consciousness. An insane undertaking, with what especially Mark has in the studio trick box of knowledge and vita from 40 years. With The Wirtschaftswunder, the German-Canadian wrote German music history with 80s avant-garde electronics shortly before NDW. With his techno project Kopfuss Resonator he traveled around the world as a live act. Musical obstinacy, cosmopolitanism: his driving force. Like curiosity in the studio: choosing the right instrument for every changing mood of the multi-layered pieces, creating sounds, designing FX... months of fine-tuning details. When "Our Love" starts with the high art, when it seems as familiar as an old friend, when it seems to scream "sample me"... then the cover and the original come full circle, then the emotional sound journey begins.
Everything was lovingly created in Mark's studio. A huge sound cosmos for leisurely sinking. Whether Strictly Mint Breakbeats with 60ies Larmoyanz à la film noir glued. Whether triphop grooves swing heavily with cinematic string sequences, whether electro and new wave waft in bass and memory, or the project delivers addictive pianos on its originals for lo-fi lovers of the present... the fresh as well as patina-afflicted sound color envelops a fine, deep emotion that shimmers golden. Interwoven in it, Machado's voice, which sometimes as a languorous jazzy chanteuse, then as a scratchy barmaid and next up as a blazing Bond voice - as a chameleon - clings to the sound colors. From light to dark she gives new shine.
Like "Wabi Sabi"... which by the way is a traditional Japanese repair method for porcelain fragments , their fractures are glued with a putty together with fine powder gold. The fracture shines. Also on Strictly Mint. But which fracture? Is being asked by the other side of the record!
VÖ 05/05/2023
Vinyl 300 Copies ltd.
Tracklist
| 1. | Our Love | 4:23 |
| 2. | The Light | 5:35 |
| 3. | Breakable | 4:00 |
| 4. | Just A Sway (As Time Goes By) | 4:46 |
| 5. | Nature Boy | 3:52 |
| 6. | I Put A Spell On You | 4:15 |
| 7. | Gotta Move | 2:03 |
| 8. | Sittin on the Dock Of The Bay | 5:20 |
| 9. | Perfect Day | 3:20 |
Credits
Vocals,& Lyrics: Yvonne Machado
Piano, Synthesizer, Beats: Mark Pfurtscheller
Produced, Mixed & Mastering: Mark Pfurtscheller
Artwork: David Stoll
Liner Notes: DJ Franksen
License
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STRICTLY MINT
Their album debut WABI SABI is an artifice as much as a cool trick!
Cover albums? There are many. But Strictly Mint are bridging the slight gap that covers can leave behind. When their original "Our Love" starts the album with high pop art, when it seems like a well-known song to us, literally screaming "sample me"...