Finally the tracks we’ve been working on with Tanya Goroshko and Stepan Bitus are out for the world to behold. Having contributed the lyrics to the brand new duet Monsoon Sexy Season, it feels a bit weird to hear them in their ‘final cuts’. The tracks landed in my inbox, Stepa’s arrangements and Tanya’s alien vocals intact, and the lyrics dropped breathlessly on me, like snowflakes, or bits of spider web, but only the three of us know how much work went into these seemingly effortless productions. These tracks are different from both TaninJazz and Stepa’s former projects (DrumEcstasy among others) as they combine live instruments with fat synths, the artificial and the natural, melancholy and naivety, the hot and the cold. You can dance to them, you can work to them, you can [bleep] to them… My favorite is Let The Feeling Flow which is as airy as the title, weightless, floating, out-of-this-world. Memory is moody and Tanya sounds like a jaded, languid feline (she talks like a cat too, purring into the receiver), the whole track is a long, lazy meow in music language… Heavenly is sensual and mechanical at the same time, idyllic and hypnotic, dripping drops of dew into one’s ear, perfect for the clubs, but not out of place in a steamy bedroom with ‘Let me down there, please’ repeated pleas… I Do is the strangest track, a bit alienated, with Tanya’s whispers barely human, with live guitars and cascading synths, cutting through the air like miniature saws… Gravitation, an instrumental track, with distinct club beats, comes as if from below the waters deep, bubbling and burping from underneath, drawing pretty ripples on the no-more-still surface. For something so distinctly electronic Monsoon Sexy Season has some old-fashioned, vintage soul. Finally, something fresh.
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