My newest discovery is sating my trip-hop/electronica appetites until the new Portishead album finally comes out. I haven't been to Europe since 2003, but that's okay because when I play Marsmobil, it is dusk at a riverside cafe in Venice, not noon at a flourescent-lit office in California. Although people at work do look at me a little funny when I light a cigarette and pour myself numerous glasses of Chianti!
Marsmobil is the Italian multi-instrumentalist Roberto Di Gioia and the French singer Martine Rojina. Di Gioia is a famed keyboard player who has toured extensively with jazz musicians like Art Farmer, Dave Holland and Gary Peacock. Marsmobil was created as a way to meld Di Gioia's love of analog '60's sounds with futuristic beats and vocals. Fans of Air, Goldfrapp, Gainsbourg and Talk Talk will dig the atmospheric trip through space and sound Minx takes.
The album was mastered at Abbey Road Studios. A fan of the Beatles since age 4, their influence on Di Gioia is most apparent in the track Reversed Mantra. Mangia Amore takes full advantage of Rojina's cool-to-the-point-of-ice voice while simultaneously making the listener want to dance the flamenco and eat to the point of bursting. Lastly, the track most reminiscent of Air, circa Talkie Walkie, is Sovatex 2055, proving that you can't go too wrong with a little piano, some effects pedals and a spacey theme.
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Gah! I have to have a Multiply account to listen? C'est triste!
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Well, that's just stupid. Multiply changed their site, I guess. I only put the tracks up there so EVERYONE could hear them. How annoying. Here are some alternate links to listen to the album: http://www.marsmobil.net http://www.myspace.com/marsmobil http://www.soulseduction.com/common/item_detail.php?ItemID=165450
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Cool, thanks. I have enough internet accounts and emails as it is.
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Don't know if you caught this on P-fork (my love/hate relationship with that site continues) but apparently there's some new Portishead music in the works
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Whoa whoa whoa, a new Portishead album?!? I didn't see this one coming, thanks for the heads up. I'm definitely going to have to check out that Marsmobil too. I'm all for reminiscing about Europe, I miss the Netherlands like nobody's business.
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Finally had a chance to access my Multiply and listen to some chunes. Can't do that at work. Those were cool tracks. Very diverse and not bad at all. I had a psychedelic hippy freak out over that Reversed Mantra. I simply must find more. Thanks Kate!
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Yeah, as soon as I first heard Reversed Mantra I had to listen to it several times. Glad you dug Marsmobil. Sometimes I get sad 'cause it's all rockrockrock on the MOG-O-SPHERE and people don't always seem to want to get out of their musical shells and listen to something slightly different. I've been on a big electronica kick lately, with this and an album by this guy, Joakim: http://www.myspace.com/jimibazzouka
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Joakim was pretty nifty too. I'm with you on the rocky rock. I'm pretty bored with all of it.
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Oooh! I like it. Going to have to chase them up. Damn this Mog thing. My music bill has skyrocketed...
Jonathan
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And I'm with you on the too much rockrockrock thing on Mog. I'm soooo bored by thrashy guitars - particularly when I feel like I've heard it before. I've always been into a range of music but particularly electronic - going as far back as early Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream etc. (It must be the art school influence...) Am planning on posting some more electronic stuff soon. Jonathan