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"Days To Come" (Ninja Tune) [oiça aqui] Comentários: Simon Green (aka Bonobo) returns with his 
third album and the kind of quantum leap in quality that very few artists make. "Days To Come" has the feeling of a classic all over - a big, brooding, emotional and uplifting record that you can dance to, do the dishes to, or sit and really study. Green has always been expert at welding together music dripping with atmosphere, combining his own musical and technical talents in such a way as to make utterly organic-sounding machine music. This is not just a knob-twiddling producer but a multi-instrumentalist at work, who writes, plays and then manipulates almost every note of music he releases. And "Days To Come" shows a new structural awareness growing from this, a feeling for the song form and the gradual build which raises it way above the work of many of his contemporaries and cries out for him to achieve the kind of mainstream success that his talent has long hinted at. Rather than turning himself into a producer-for-hire on his own record and delivering a compilation album, Green found one main singer to work with, and her voice certainly adds that crucial edge to proceedings. Bajka (pronounced Biker) grew up as part of Embryo, a travelling music commune, whose journeys took them through Afghanistan, Nepal and Pakistan. Now based in Germany she has released records on labels such as Ubiquity and Compost. A smokey, soulful singer, she sounds as at home on the big band soul-jazz of "Between The Lines" as on the more melancholic "Nightlite". Green is also joined by label mate and fellow Brightonian Fink on the beautiful come-on "If You Stayed Over", a gem of emotional pop that sees both of them at the top of their game. Green hasn't abandoned the instrumentals, though. "Ketto" arrives with a dreamlike intensity, "On Your Marks" hits with the all the force of early-era Shadow, while Part 2 of "Transmissions 94" is amongst the most beautiful and transcendent music that this quiet and self-effacing producer has yet crafted.
third album and the kind of quantum leap in quality that very few artists make. "Days To Come" has the feeling of a classic all over - a big, brooding, emotional and uplifting record that you can dance to, do the dishes to, or sit and really study. Green has always been expert at welding together music dripping with atmosphere, combining his own musical and technical talents in such a way as to make utterly organic-sounding machine music. This is not just a knob-twiddling producer but a multi-instrumentalist at work, who writes, plays and then manipulates almost every note of music he releases. And "Days To Come" shows a new structural awareness growing from this, a feeling for the song form and the gradual build which raises it way above the work of many of his contemporaries and cries out for him to achieve the kind of mainstream success that his talent has long hinted at. Rather than turning himself into a producer-for-hire on his own record and delivering a compilation album, Green found one main singer to work with, and her voice certainly adds that crucial edge to proceedings. Bajka (pronounced Biker) grew up as part of Embryo, a travelling music commune, whose journeys took them through Afghanistan, Nepal and Pakistan. Now based in Germany she has released records on labels such as Ubiquity and Compost. A smokey, soulful singer, she sounds as at home on the big band soul-jazz of "Between The Lines" as on the more melancholic "Nightlite". Green is also joined by label mate and fellow Brightonian Fink on the beautiful come-on "If You Stayed Over", a gem of emotional pop that sees both of them at the top of their game. Green hasn't abandoned the instrumentals, though. "Ketto" arrives with a dreamlike intensity, "On Your Marks" hits with the all the force of early-era Shadow, while Part 2 of "Transmissions 94" is amongst the most beautiful and transcendent music that this quiet and self-effacing producer has yet crafted.
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