500枚限定ブルー・ヴァイナル仕様！2021年にCDでリリースされたアルバムが待望のアナログで登場！トランペット、フルート、サックス、バイオリン、ベース、キーボード等のゲスト陣を迎え制作されたアンビエント、ジャズ、レフトフィールド等がブレンドされたCalmならではの世界観を披露！DJ CosmoやPhil Misonも賛辞を贈る傑作です！ Hell Yeah Recordings · Calm - Beauty On Earth A1 Beauty On EarthA2 Long Summer DreamA3 Blue In VoidB1 Liminal MomentB2I Love YouC1 Feel ItC2 Before Sunrise BlueC3 KunpooD1 Freedom SunsetD2 Lets Make Harmony Hell Yeah Recordings · Calm - Beauty On Earth Hell Yeah Recordings · Liminal Moment Hell Yeah Recordings · Blue In Void Hell Yeah Recordings · Long Summer DreamLimited edition run of 500 copies - pressed on transparent blue vinyl.Following a CD-only release in Japan in 2021, legendary downtempo producer Calm finally releases his “Before” album on vinyl and digital courtesy of Hell Yeah. The 10-track record is a slow-burning Balearic beauty.Calm aka Kiyotaka Fukagawa has never been to the White Isle, but he sure knows how to capture its musical essence. He has done so over a long and storied career that has taken in 17 albums and some 35 EPs on many labels including this one over the last 20-plus years. His unique blend of ambient, jazz and leftfield was last showcased on this label in 2018 with his By Your Side album, and now he does it again with another timeless and escapist offering.The record was written, arranged, mixed and produced by Calm, but with gorgeous musical embellishments, trumpets, flutes, saxophones, violins, bass and keys played by friends and guests like Shiba, Sinsuke Fujieda, Fumiko Takeshita, Tomokazu Sugimoto, Yuichiro Kato and Toshitaka Shibata. Tracks from it have already had support from Cosmo Coleen Murphy on Worldwide FM, while Phil Mison says it is "100% reminiscent of an old Café Del Mar or José Padilla record." He is not wrong.As soon as the opening chords of 'Beauty on Earth' wash over you there is no escaping the naturalistic charm and beauty of this record. 'Long Summer Dream' layers mystic wind sounds and gentle percussive patterns into suspensory bliss, 'Blue in Void' is a plaintive moment of sombre sax and pensive piano, then 'Liminal Moment' awakens the soul with its gorgeous flute lines and looping arps.There is perfect horizontal sunset house on 'I Love You,' 'Feel It' picks up the pace with seductive saxophone motifs and psychedelic synth loops and 'Before Sunrise Blue' is crushing downtempo melancholia. 'Kunpoo' reawakens you with leggy bass and expansive synths that reach for the heavens, while 'Freedom Sunset' is an epic 10-minute journey out to sea. Lastly, 'Let's Make Harmony' is super slow motion jazz-funk that swells the heart. Before is a superb album that is well-deserving of this double vinyl pressing and is sure to become a Balearic classic.DJ Support:Phil Mison, Colleen Cosmo Murphy, Chris Coco, Buena Onda Crew
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