Saturday 28th August – Chris Coco’s album launch party
August 19th, 2010 by sparky
Join tastemaker, DJ, broadcaster, producer, musician and journalist Chris Coco on Saturday 28th August, as he launches his fantastic new album on the Big Chill Label at the Big Chill Bar!
Get a taster of what to expect from Chris by tuning in to his Melodica online radio show (which has been short listed for a BT Digital Music Award in the Best Radio Show or Podcast category) – just click here!
Chris Coco’s ‘Feel Free Live Good’ is available now;
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For download:
Chris Coco has created a wonderful set of tunes on Feel Free Live Good. After multiple adventures with the band City Reverb, DJ’ing for Robbie Williams, and his usual circuit of global DJ dates, compilations, mixes and radio shows Coco took some time out. He spent a few months preparing these musical delights at 99, his studio in Camden, London. With the help of a laptop, a microphone, some very old synths and a bunch of good friends Feel Free Live Good was born. It was a very relaxed process, friends would pop in and lay down vocals and musical parts for Coco to manipulate and process.
“It’s amazing what you can get people to do for a bowl of pasta and a couple of glasses of Rioja,” reflects Coco on the laidback but fruitful recording experience. Though the music ranges from deep house to ambient to chillout to dub it is all held together by an atmospheric, almost romantic feel that is a soul of any Chris Coco production. The title track, Feel Free Live Good, is a little darker but is a mantra for modern, post meltdown living, like a C21 version of the wartime slogan – Keep calm and carry on. The album works on many levels, at a beach side barbecue or in an intimate setting, but there is enough going on for it be a good headphone listen too.
The album is built around Summertime, a simple and effective song that has been drifting out of all the right beachfront bars in Ibiza since last summer. Either side of this are My Beach House, featuring some fine Spanish guitar work from Nick, actually a Belgian who hasn’t been to a beach for five years; and Fizz, a cheeky cocktail bar number with the real sound of champagne corks popping integrated into the rhythm. The album artwork was created by Anthony Burrill and the No Days Off design studio. Anthony has also made some limited edition screen prints of the slogan.
Other musical highlights include album closer Fragile Beauty, coming on like the soundtrack for a tragic French love story; City Knows Your Name, a dubby workout about lost love in Tokyo featuring Japanese poet Iko; and Beards Of Paradise, a solid slice of dubby space disco. My Beach House, the first single from the album came out on June 7th featuring the original version plus remixes from Brendon Moeller/Beat Pharmacy and Red Rack Em.