Authors: Constance Power, William Holland
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Type: Soul
QUANTIC
il nuovo singolo
"Get In The Ride" ft. Connie Constance
Dancing While Falling esce il 10 novembre su Play It Again Sam
Quantic - alias il produttore e DJ britannico Will Holland - annuncia il nuovo album "Dancing While Falling" in uscita il 10 novembre su Play It Again Sam. Dopo 20 anni di carriera, secondo l'artista è il suo lavoro più live, euforico e adulto.
Will condivide un nuovo singolo "Get In The Ride" con Connie Constance. Il nuovo brano segue i singoli pubblicati di recente "Run" con Andreya Triana, che è stato il primo inedito di Will del 2023 ed è entrato direttamente nella playlist di 6Music, e l'empowering disco groover "Stand Up", e "Unconditional" con Rationale.
On “Get In The Ride” he worked with British singer-songwriter Connie Constance. Will says, “This is Connie and my first collab together, one of the futurist approaches on my new record.
The song's journey is a clash between hard synth patterns and pack vocals, like sitting in the backseat of a very bumpy ride."
Connie adds, “Was so cool to work with Quantic on this record, I used to listen to ‘Time is the Enemy’ all the time when I was first recording my own music. It feels like a full circle moment.”
Come un artista che vede ogni suo disco come un processo continuo di perfezionamento del progetto, l'album di 10 tracce, edificante e gioioso, è la sua prima pubblicazione su un'etichetta più grande. È anche più conciso rispetto alle sue recenti proposte su Tru Thoughts, tra cui Magnetica del 2014, un montaggio in stile mixtape di tutte le diverse esperienze musicali vissute mentre viveva in Colombia, e il suo album più recente, Atlantic Oscillations del 2019, che raccontava il viaggio di come ha intrecciato il suono della sua nuova casa, New York, nel suo mondo sonoro. Per quest'ultimo, inoltre, si è lentamente allontanato dalla produzione di beat basati su campioni su un laptop e si è invece avventurato in una configurazione più sinfonica in termini di strumentazione.
Similarly with Dancing While Falling, Quantic wanted to use old school techniques to make something modern, with the aim of creating a record that showed the players on it – an album where their identities and charisma can be heard. Predominantly recorded at his own Brooklyn studio, Selva, Quantic’s initial idea for his new album was to experiment sonically. However, after a while, he changed direction and realised that the record needed to also relate to the human condition - not just his “singular pandemic wormhole”. The demos, then, started off as symphonic, loosely disco-era dance music – a departure from his previous Latin and Spanish instrumental releases.
Influenced by legendary artists in the scene like Bohannon and Larry Levan, Quantic wanted to make a disco-leaning album at first. “I’m really interested in Latin music and Afro Caribbean rhythms and I think there's a really amazing point in history where the emergence of those rhythms and its combination with American soul sparked what we now know as disco,” he says. This is what excited Quantic most: “there's an infinite amount of time and experiments that can be had with the meeting and the marrying of different rhythms. That’s the power I think disco music has, and the marriage of that with the emotional content is really cool”.
As an artist whose reputation has been forged on how he engages with local scenes and cultures around the world, the story behind Quantic’s Dancing While Falling is typically collaborative. Recording drums, bass and guitar at Selva, he started off with sketches and arranged the strings and horns. He then invited different musicians into the studio so they could play the scores, which added different textures to the songs.
Talking about each collaboration in more detail, Quantic says that, having been friends with British singer and songwriter Andreya Triana since they were teenagers growing up in Worcestershire, the pair had always wanted to work on music together but never did. However, since reconnecting 20 years ago, that chance finally arrived during the pandemic and resulted in Triana singing on four of the album’s tracks: “Run”, “Brooklyn Heat”, “Morning Light” and “Where The Flowers
Grow”. He works with Rationale on “Unconditional” and Connie Constance on the track “Get In The Ride” which, having used a Eurorack synthesiser, Quantic sees as the “marriage of machines vs live musicians”.
When it came to naming the album, Quantic chose the title Dancing While Falling because of its ambiguous connotations. “It hints at dancing and falling in love, but there’s also dancing whilst falling, which is how I envisage it – when you’re in a perilous situation, but you still find happiness. There's also something about when you're falling, like after jumping off a rock, that feels like dancing. Because it's freedom.”
Pre-order Dancing While Falling HERE (LP / CD / Digital available
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il nuovo singolo
"Get In The Ride" ft. Connie Constance
Dancing While Falling esce il 10 novembre su Play It Again Sam
Quantic - alias il produttore e DJ britannico Will Holland - annuncia il nuovo album "Dancing While Falling" in uscita il 10 novembre su Play It Again Sam. Dopo 20 anni di carriera, secondo l'artista è il suo lavoro più live, euforico e adulto.
Will condivide un nuovo singolo "Get In The Ride" con Connie Constance. Il nuovo brano segue i singoli pubblicati di recente "Run" con Andreya Triana, che è stato il primo inedito di Will del 2023 ed è entrato direttamente nella playlist di 6Music, e l'empowering disco groover "Stand Up", e "Unconditional" con Rationale.
On “Get In The Ride” he worked with British singer-songwriter Connie Constance. Will says, “This is Connie and my first collab together, one of the futurist approaches on my new record.
The song's journey is a clash between hard synth patterns and pack vocals, like sitting in the backseat of a very bumpy ride."
Connie adds, “Was so cool to work with Quantic on this record, I used to listen to ‘Time is the Enemy’ all the time when I was first recording my own music. It feels like a full circle moment.”
Come un artista che vede ogni suo disco come un processo continuo di perfezionamento del progetto, l'album di 10 tracce, edificante e gioioso, è la sua prima pubblicazione su un'etichetta più grande. È anche più conciso rispetto alle sue recenti proposte su Tru Thoughts, tra cui Magnetica del 2014, un montaggio in stile mixtape di tutte le diverse esperienze musicali vissute mentre viveva in Colombia, e il suo album più recente, Atlantic Oscillations del 2019, che raccontava il viaggio di come ha intrecciato il suono della sua nuova casa, New York, nel suo mondo sonoro. Per quest'ultimo, inoltre, si è lentamente allontanato dalla produzione di beat basati su campioni su un laptop e si è invece avventurato in una configurazione più sinfonica in termini di strumentazione.
Similarly with Dancing While Falling, Quantic wanted to use old school techniques to make something modern, with the aim of creating a record that showed the players on it – an album where their identities and charisma can be heard. Predominantly recorded at his own Brooklyn studio, Selva, Quantic’s initial idea for his new album was to experiment sonically. However, after a while, he changed direction and realised that the record needed to also relate to the human condition - not just his “singular pandemic wormhole”. The demos, then, started off as symphonic, loosely disco-era dance music – a departure from his previous Latin and Spanish instrumental releases.
Influenced by legendary artists in the scene like Bohannon and Larry Levan, Quantic wanted to make a disco-leaning album at first. “I’m really interested in Latin music and Afro Caribbean rhythms and I think there's a really amazing point in history where the emergence of those rhythms and its combination with American soul sparked what we now know as disco,” he says. This is what excited Quantic most: “there's an infinite amount of time and experiments that can be had with the meeting and the marrying of different rhythms. That’s the power I think disco music has, and the marriage of that with the emotional content is really cool”.
As an artist whose reputation has been forged on how he engages with local scenes and cultures around the world, the story behind Quantic’s Dancing While Falling is typically collaborative. Recording drums, bass and guitar at Selva, he started off with sketches and arranged the strings and horns. He then invited different musicians into the studio so they could play the scores, which added different textures to the songs.
Talking about each collaboration in more detail, Quantic says that, having been friends with British singer and songwriter Andreya Triana since they were teenagers growing up in Worcestershire, the pair had always wanted to work on music together but never did. However, since reconnecting 20 years ago, that chance finally arrived during the pandemic and resulted in Triana singing on four of the album’s tracks: “Run”, “Brooklyn Heat”, “Morning Light” and “Where The Flowers
Grow”. He works with Rationale on “Unconditional” and Connie Constance on the track “Get In The Ride” which, having used a Eurorack synthesiser, Quantic sees as the “marriage of machines vs live musicians”.
When it came to naming the album, Quantic chose the title Dancing While Falling because of its ambiguous connotations. “It hints at dancing and falling in love, but there’s also dancing whilst falling, which is how I envisage it – when you’re in a perilous situation, but you still find happiness. There's also something about when you're falling, like after jumping off a rock, that feels like dancing. Because it's freedom.”
Pre-order Dancing While Falling HERE (LP / CD / Digital available
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