Slowly Rolling Camera Slowly Rolling Camera

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Album-Release:
2014

HRA-Release:
03.07.2014

Label: Edition Records

Genre: Electronic

Subgenre: Downtempo

Artist: Slowly Rolling Camera

Composer: Dave Stapleton

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  • 1 Protagonist 05:15
  • 2 Dream A Life 05:26
  • 3 Rain that Falls 06:09
  • 4 Bridge 06:20
  • 5 Slowly Rolling Camera 05:19
  • 6 Outside 05:52
  • 7 Fragile Ground 05:46
  • 8 Undertones 03:30
  • 9 Color 04:28
  • 10 Two Roads 05:05
  • 11 River Runs Free 03:06
  • 12 Rolling Clouds 07:22
  • 13 Silent Song 04:41
  • Total Runtime 01:08:19

Info for Slowly Rolling Camera

Slowly Rolling Camera, ist das neue Projekt von Komponist & Pianist Dave Stapelton (Chef bei Edition Records), Produzent Deri Roberts, Sängerin Dionne Bennett und Drummer Elliot Bennett. Das Ergebnis ist Musik, die nicht wirklich Jazz, sondern viel mehr im Stile von Cinematic Orchestra und Portishead ist.

Auf dem Weg zu einem Triphop-Comeback helfen dem UK-Quartett vor allem zwei Faktoren: mit ganz viel Jazz-, Soul- und Gospel-Feeling aufgeladene Klasse-Songs, vor allem aber die gewaltige Stimme von Sängerin Dionne Bennett. Die hinterlässt auf jedem der teilweise ausufernden Tracks, zwischen Saxofon-Soli, Kontrabass-Ploppen, echten Streichern, elektronischen Stolper-Beats und Fender-Rhodes-Piano, ihre eindrucksvollen Spuren.

Der ohnehin sehr epische, fast filmisch angelegte Klang von Slowly Rolling Camera (Anspieltipps: die orchestrale Ballade 'Bridge' und der Titelsong) gewinnt durch die fulminante Vokal-Performance zusätzlich an Tiefe. Die elf Stücke des über Edition/Soulfood erschienenen selbstbetitelten Debüts fließen oft nahtlos ineinander. Bewusst setzten Mastermind Dave Stapleton und seine Mitstreiter - ein gutes Dutzend inklusive der Gastmusiker - nicht auf einzelne Highlights, sondern konstruierten ein sehr organisches Werk, das 'am Stück' gehört werden will.

Zwischen Cinematic Orchestra und Portishead, mit Einflüssen der Supremes und von John Coltrane - so beschrieb der Kritiker des britischen 'Guardian' die Musik von Slowly Rolling Camera, und er kam zu dem Fazit: 'Rising Star written all over it. Superb!' Es gibt keinen Grund, dieser Einschätzung zu widersprechen. Ein tolles Soul-, Jazz- und (ja!) Triphop-Album, das dem totgesagten Genre neues Leben einhaucht.

„Und so ist die Musik des Erstlingswerkes von „Slowly Rolling Camera' eine, die sich langsam entwickelt, dabei Momente aus TripHop, Jazz und Drum&Bass miteinander verbindet und mit cineastischen Klangflächen, starken Melodien und Vocals beim Zuhören packt.“ (Jazzthing)

Dionne Bennett, vocals
Dave Stapleton, composer, fender rhodes, piano, hammond organ
Deri Roberts, sound design, electronics, producer
Elliot Bennett, drums

Weitere Musiker:
Neil Yates, trumpet
Mark Lockheart, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Chris Montague, guitar
Jasper Høiby, double bass
Jon Visanji, violin
Catrin Win Morgan, violin
Victoria Stapleton, violin
Katy Rowe, violin
Ilona Bondar, viola
Rebekah Frost, viola
Alice Hoskins, cello
Sarah Stevens, cello


Slowly Rolling Camera
a new project that teams pianist-composer Dave Stapleton, producer Deri Roberts, vocalist-lyricist Dionne Bennett and drummer Elliot Bennett, is proof positive that some of the most interesting work often arises from a meeting of many minds. The result is music that has distinct echoes of the ‘invisible soundtracks’ of UK progressives Cinematic Orchestra and Portishead as well as the polychrome textures of maverick Scandinavian artists like Sigor Ros and Oddarrang.

The intricate deployment of glowing keyboard colours and shifting rhythmic patterns imbues tracks such as Temptation and Eight Days In with the kind of stark atmospheres that often define the best scores for both big and small screen. Stapleton’s keyboards and Elliot Bennett’s drums create a wide range of sharp, often crunching timbres that are augmented by Roberts’ artful electronic washes, but it is the presence of guest players, double bassist Jasper Hoiby, guitarist Chris Montague and saxophonist Mark Lockheart that significantly enriches the sound palette. These greatly respected figures in British jazz contribute a heavy, bulky low end, eerie, crackling chords and crystalline solos that make for much more than a cut ‘n’ paste studio session. Their attention to detail is great.

Furthermore, the orchestral scope of the project is epitomized by the lush, plaintive string charts that embellish tracks such as Coin. There is also Dionne Bennett’s measured, highly soulful vocal performance on 21 Nov and Rain That Falls, two gorgeously wistful songs that skillfully weave together understated but nonetheless resonant chord sequences and soaring crescendos.

Slowly Rolling Camera is not a name without meaning. The whole aesthetic of the music vividly suggests a series of frames or images that unfold at a leisurely pace, thus settling strongly into the sub-conscious to reveal layer upon layer of detail. The combination of lean but incisive production and tightly focused live playing has yielded music that has the dot-matrix finesse of the digital age without being bloodless or clinical. Slowly Rolling Camera are purveyors of mysterious audio vignettes that are moulded by a structural sophistication that is plugged straight into the vibrant emotional current of pop culture.

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