Koop - Waltz for Koop
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Artist: KoopEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2002-07-09
Music Label: Palm Pictures (Audio
Soundtracks:
- Waltz For Koop (feat. Cecilia Stalin)
- Tonight (feat. Mikael Sundin)
- Baby (feat. Cecilia Stalin)
- Summer Sun (feat. Yukimi Nagano)
- Soul For Sahib
- Modal Mile (feat. Earl Zinger)
- In A Heartbeat (feat. Terry Callier)
- Relaxin' At Club F****n
- Bright Nights (feat. Yukimi Nagano)
Music reviews of Waltz for Koop
Music Review: Cool!
Rating: 5 Stars
A lot of chillout or lounge people of recent years go for the atmosphere of "jazz" or bossa nova and end up producing something that is, at least, inoffensive to the ears. When I heard this Koop CD, I could tell that they had the same goal, but they do it so well. They don't sound like Thievery or St. Germain, even though St. Germain is all right...but they approach their music with the paced and sophisticated sensibility of the generation of jazz musicians that were killed by fusion. The live musicians on this album are very solid and interesting. As a jazz musician myself, I can tell when producers or second rate musicians are faking it. Even though some of the sampled material is completely ripped of from old jazz songs, the end result is a swinging and utterly ethereal set.The 4 songs on the beginning of the album are mostly traditionally arranged vocal bits that sandwich an instrumental solo between a sung melody. The singers have a light and delicate touch to match the instrumentation behind them. The melodies and overall compositions are good enough to use in a big band or other traditional jazz setting. The rest of the songs seem more like hipster pieces. They mostly hang out on one chord and feature deep voiced men, but the key in these is the consistently deep and stylish atmosphere.
This album is delicate and retro without the shallow elevator music style of other "jazzy" electronic producers, and it also avoids the overly assertive recycled splash of Japanese acts like Pizzicato Five and Fantastic Plastic Machine. It occupies a space that a lot of artists reach for, but hits such a delicate balance that I doubt even they can try to do it again. That makes it essential; that makes it a classic
Description of Waltz for Koop
Koop comes from a universe where Miles Davis never made Bitches Brew, replacing swing with funk, and instead double basses kept walking and jazz kept swinging all the way until the sampler arrived to chop it up. Not electronic music with a touch of jazz, but jazz sparingly laced with electronics. Magnus Zingmark and Oscar Simonsson, both from Sweden's main university-town Uppsala, now residing in Stockholm, were the first two jazzheads in their hometown to lose interest in the perpetual Hammond organ-licking of Jimmy Smith. Instead, they embarked together down the more rewarding paths of Hard-bop and raw Latin beats, avoiding fusion's tendency to dilute the original spirit of jazz. Waltz For Koop has been re-released by Palm Pictures with a added tracks and a bonus DVD, containing the acclaimed videos for "Summer Sun" and "Glomd," as well as two remixes, "Summer Sun" (Markus Enochson Remix) and "Relaxin' at Club F***n" (Dorfmeister vs. Madrid de los Austrias Version).Koop combines a wealth of summery melodies and floating vocals with the acid jazz of Gilles Peterson and the laid-back trip-hop aesthetic of Jazzanova and Peter Kruder. The result is a sweet, effortless sound on Waltz For Koop. Starting off with a Brazilian feel, Koop enlists Astrud Gilberto-like chanteuses Cecilia Stalin and Yukimi Nagano to augment the mood, while later, electronic trickster-legend Earl Zinger shows up for a decadent "Modal Mile." The record takes an otherworldly turn with the presence of Chicago folk-jazz artist Terry Callier, as his wistful, spiritual pipes give "In a Heartbeat" a depth that eludes most DJs, who go for electronic lounge and end up with elevator music. Good-natured and accessible without being trendy, Waltz puts a lot of other "chill" collections to shame. --Matthew Cooke
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