Winter Selections 06

2021-01-07 12:40

VA - Winter Selections 06 / SILKM286 / Silk Music

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1Meeting MollyIn The Circle Of Life (Mango Rework)06:3513
2Jake KaiserKestrel (Original Mix)03:226
3Thomas HayesRed Hill (Original Mix)06:1112
4OAIMoonwalk (Original Mix)03:527
5Anthony NikitaCloser (Original Mix)06:0712
6Jake KaiserKestrel (Extended Mix)05:5811
7OAIMoonwalk (Extended Mix)05:5111
A L O N E O U R S E L V E S

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[: ARTIST..... :] VA
[: TITLE...... :] Winter Selections 06
[: GENRE...... :] House
[: RIP DATE... :] 2021-01-07
[: LABEL...... :] Silk Music
[: CAT NR..... :] SILKM286
[: TRACKS..... :] 7
[: SIZE....... :] 73m
[: ENCODER.... :] LAME 3.100 -b 32 -V 0
[: CODEC...... :] MP3 (MPEG-2 Audio Layer III)
[: SOURCE..... :] WEB (FLAC)
[: URL........ :] https://store.tidal.com/nz/album/168240495

[ ::.. Tracklist ..:: ]
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01. Meeting Molly - In The Circle Of Life (Mango Rework) 06:35 
02. Jake Kaiser - Kestrel (Original Mix) ......... 03:22 
03. Thomas Hayes - Red Hill (Original Mix) ....... 06:12 
04. OAI - Moonwalk (Original Mix) ................ 03:52 
05. Anthony Nikita - Closer (Original Mix) ....... 06:08 
06. Jake Kaiser - Kestrel (Extended Mix) ......... 05:58 
07. OAI - Moonwalk (Extended Mix) ................ 05:52 

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The stark landscapes and crisp climates that characterize the 
winter months can clarify, if not intensify, our emotions. The 
music released this time of year has a tendency to be especially 
raw and poignant, which is certainly the case for the five 
exceptional cuts featured on Winter Selections 06.

Last year, Meeting Molly released the three-track In The Circle 
Of Life EP on our imprint, including the poignant title cut. 
It's our great privilege to welcome back label muse Mango, whose 
'Rework' centers on a more punchy and minimalistic groove, which 
provides more breathing room for the hauntingly beautiful 
vocals. Gorgeous piano melodies from the original mix and 
Mango's own new improvisations also dot the sentimental 
soundscape.

In last year's Winter Selections release, American talent Jake 
Kaiser treated us to the memorable Sequoia. His Kestrel on this 
year's edition is an equally timeless offering, featuring a 
variety of effervescent melodic themes, which gently tug at the 
listener's heartstrings.

Back in 2014, Thomas Hayes made his official Silk Music debut 
with the stormy melodic progressive number, Some Thing Never 
Change. Seven years later, we're pleased to welcome the 
Melbourne native back to our imprint his Red Hill is a 
delightful offering, which centers on an array of reverberating 
piano and bell themes, as evocative vocal textures and string 
elements accentuate the song's wintry aura.

Belarusian artist OAI, the only label newcomer on the release, 
exhibits his compositional prowess on Moonwalk, an inspired 
progressive offering. In the early going, a brooding bassline 
underpins a flurry of hypnotic arp lines, as the arrangement 
gently crescendoes toward the main breakdown. Suddenly, the 
beats drop out, and a few faint, pitched-down vocal lines begin 
to echo through the soundscape, as a rising arpeggio builds 
anticipation for the lush drop sequence to follow. The 
euphonious melodic themes carry the song to its conclusion.

Closing out the Winter Selections 06 release, gifted American 
artist Anthony Nikita, who last contributed Love The Way to our 
stable (back in 2018), serves up the melodic prog stormer, 
Closer. The song jets out of the gate with a formidable, 
peak-hour groove, punctuated by the song's main vocal motif: an 
intoxicating hook, which ends with a reference to the song's 
title. A trance-influenced chord progression ultimately 
culminates in an anthemic sequence, in which the soaring chords 
and recurring vocal motif join forces to create an awe-inspiring 
soundscape. The drop to follow is simply rapturous.

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