Description
Label: The Quiet Village – QV001
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: Europe
Released: 7 Jun 2024
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Broken Beat, Downtempo
Tracklist:
A Reunion
B1 Reunion (Radio Edit)
B2 Reunion (Reprise)
Companies:
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – The Quiet Village
Copyright © – The Quiet Village
Distributed By – Above Board Distribution
Recorded At – Riverside Studios, Berlin
Produced At – Otok Studios
Mixed At – Well House Studio
Published By – Rekids Publishing
Credits:
Keyboards – Thomas Gandey
Mixed By – Thomas Gandey
Saxophone – Jon Hester
Written-By, Producer – Joel Martin, Matt Edwards
Notes:
Unusually adept, jazzdancey sonic handicraft from new Rekids signee, Quiet Village. If we at Juno could issue some kind of official rosette or emblem for 'wicked production skills'- on par with a master builder's sextant-engraved headstone - then we'd award Quiet Village with one such memento in a heartbeat. 'Reunion', pressed onto vinyl for the first time here, hears a loose yet effortlessly rhythmic drum break furl, dance about a smooth, nighttime jazz progression for sax and piano. It's giving visions of a down-and-out PI in an 80s neo-noir/romantic drama genre fusion, except this protagonist has just tuned into Rinse FM for the first time - and Rinse FM, in this alternate reality, exists in the 80s. The 'Reprise' version is equally as evocative, sans-ing the drums to allow space to listen to just the melodics, just the overarching ambiences. It's as if Quiet Village know that the true force of the tune, its essence, rests in the core mystique of the aforementioned instrumental combo; the ghost of the drums may continue to play back only in our minds, yet we continue to dance.
Made in the EU.
PW 27
£25.00