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Recommended by us on 15th July 2010
...according to our Ant on Thu 15 Jul, 2010.
This is pretty slick stuff and amazingly accomplished for a debut album. It's giving off pure summer vibes with the lush synth lines and funky beats. I guess it's a kind of electronic synth/funk /soul/ house hybrid style that's difficult to pin down. Apparently Oriol Singhji is influenced by Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock and it shows as 'Night And Day' is a very "musical" record which is fairly rare in electronic music these days, which tends to be mostly loop and texture based. Oriol really makes the synthesizers sing with vibrant soul and enchanting melodies. All good clean fun here with nifty programming and shiny production. Lovely stuff.
* Oriol's debut album ‘Night And Day’ has the depth of musicality and subtlety of an artist who knows exactly what he
wants, and it’s also the perfect summer album.
* The facts are these: his real name is Oriol Singhji, and he was born in Barcelona but now lives between London and
Cambridge. He’s spent some time in Boston studying music and Oriol's got musical skills that set him above his peers.
* ‘Night and Day’ connects the dots between his musical tastes, from the 70’s fusion and experimentation of Herbie
Hancock and Stevie Wonder to the lush house of Theo Parrish, Larry Heard and Recloose, into drum and bass and
dubstep, he rewires these influences into something that's totally exuberant and fresh, a soulful fantasy, indebted to older
musical styles but still sounding bang up to date, surpassing any niggles you might have that this isn’t just seriously good
music.
* The album opens with ‘Joy FM’, mixing Moog melodies with warm early Detroit techno. The next track 'Spiral' builds
vox chords against diva vocals and rich talk box harmonies, while ‘Memories’ works up a nervous melody with staccato
chords. ‘Jam’ lets things roll out with a loose musicality, irresistible early 80’s soul stylings and big Moog synth. ‘The
Process’ works broken beats under Philip Glass-like chords and funky keyboards, while ‘Flux’ crosses warm arpeggios
with disco beats. *'Night And Day' captures the ambience of a party at sunrise at a Tropical destination, bittersweet and
beautiful, followed by ‘Fantasy for N’ where beatless layers of electronics create a dreamy mood. ‘LW’ is a graceful
mix of Jeff Mills techno energy and stringy disco, while ‘5 Bars’ finishes the album with tough beats and chords mixing
it up with ambient atmosphere.
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