Afternoons in Stereo - Tinto Brass (2021 Remastered)

Afternoons in Stereo - Leaves of Brass (2021 Remastered) Archival Remastered Series Catalogue No: KRK137 Release Date: June 25, 2021 Originally Released June 2006 Media: Digital - CDR buy/support/stream: They say the second album is the hardest for any artist, but this proved untrue for Canadian producer Afternoons In Stereo. With a myriad of musical ideas and new concepts to explore, the sophomore slump was hardly a worry. Starting with an album title that pays tribute to poet Walt Whitman and infers that jazz is a driving component, the record would push the envelope and defy expectations. Leaves Of Brass came two years after the debut, Aural Pleasure, but it is easy to hear the music was already pushing into new sonic territory. "The biggest departure was, I think, away from club music," says producer Greg Vickers, the man behind Afternoons In Stereo. "I was determined to not rely on the repetition of loops and 4/4 beats and to find a way to express myself instrumentally in a way that wasn&repeating what I had done." In fact, there is only one song on the album that employs the dancefloor-friendly house sound that was more prevalent on the debut album -- the dreamy Ibiza club anthem of Andalusia. Across the rest of the album its fat cinematic spaghetti western funk (Django&Revenge) and urban blaxploitation funk (The Puma), glacial ambient (Tidal Passage) and vintage spy thriller beats (Chasing The Lotus). Still working independently, both producing and releasing...