£3.99
LUCKY015
LIMITED 12" VINYL
Released: 29th October 2007
1. Music is The Wine (Joakim Mix)
2. Music Is The Wine (Original Mix)
3. Ensoniq (Bi-Polar Men Refix)
4. Music Is The Wine (Joakim Dub Mix)
Seventeen Evergreen's chief-protagonists Caleb Pate and Nephi Evans, are both singers, multi-instrumentalists, & most importantly, storytellers of imagination and hyper-reality. "Music is the wine, to fill my cup of sadness, helping to forget a love electrocuted", is the simple eloquent message offered here, emphasizing the emotionally-healing quality that music holds for so many of us. "The songs of love that live, beyond the instruments, behind your eyes and growing, gradually pull...[you]...in", to a stronger place, of course! It's a sexy place too, adopting 'Moon Safari's sultriness as if played by an acutely amorous band of space-funkers. This is true to The Independent's reading of Seventeen Evergreen's album, its' "...other-worldliness recalls Midlake only with the time-machine set for the future rather than the past."
Further fortifying the aphrodisiac funk is the most chic of Parisians, Joakim. His remix comes on like the super-slinky 'Space-Disco' sister to Taana Gardner's classic Heartbeat', a groove of dancefloor lust you can imagine both Grandmaster Flash & Larry Levan championing as their own. It's a minimal but bumpin' breakbeat that feels like it's on the cusp of a new dance genre, cutting a fresh soulful edge to the track alongside the reverberations of a startling sonic mix of rasping keyboard trills & effects that Joakim rocks so well!
In addition we hear surely a new expression of 'dubstep' with Bi-Polar Men's mix of album track 'Ensoniq', providing an irresistible urgency to the deep bass tones we're used to from the genre. Championed by Sinden, Switch and Skream.
Artwork by Souther Salazar.