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Robert Henke / Monolake
Lawrence English
Justin Martin

Albums
Chica and the Folder
Ciëlo
Cobblestone Jazz
Cokiyu
Continuum
Crescent
Deceptikon
Fear Falls Burning / Nadja:
Feu Thérèse
Fink
Luca Formentini
Robert Fripp
Gultskra Artikler
Helios
Klima
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Akira Kosemura
Lusine icl
Michaela Melián
Morning Recordings
Geoff Mullen
Múm
Christopher O'Riley
Pluramon
Pure H
Roam The Hello Clouds
Reverbaphon
Sawako
Skøtt, Rasmussen, Munk
Sleeping People
Slow Six
Studio
Supermayer
To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie
Two Lone Swordsmen
Valentina
Worrytrain

Compilations / Mixes
Benno Blome
Booka Shade
Lee Burridge
Cielo
Justin Martin
Henrik Schwarz
VA: Add To Friends
VA: An Taobh Tuathail
VA: Echod
VA: Ikude
VA: Sky Diary Edits

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
Antonelli
Build Buildings
Sylvain Chauveau
Christ.
Daedelus
Daso
Matthew Dear
Goldmund
Kush Arora
Litwenko
Miss Fitz
Plant43
Pulsinger + DJ Glow
Sote
Strategy

Cielo: Volare
Kinkysweet

Volare, Cielo's fourth compilation, largely cultivates a breezy seaside vibe that's hard to resist, despite its ‘smooth' character. Mixed and compiled by DJs Nicolas Matar and Willie Graff and split into Departure and Arrival halves, the two-disc set's grooving material feels more like Brazil than New York, even though the popular Cielo club itself is located in Manhattan. Similarly, jazzy dance cuts like Kiko Navarro's remix of Chieko Kinbara's “Heart of Fire” have more in common with the Pat Metheny Group (in Brazil mode) than Frankie Knuckles. In twenty-two pieces, softly chanting voices, slinky house grooves, warm Rhodes and synth flourishes, congas and timbales, and jazzy bass lines are the ingredients, and Latin, funk, house, and soul-jazz the stylistic seasoning for this richly orchestrated collection.

Though an occasional track grates (over-the-top vocalizing in Whiteside's “Feel the Hope” and Fauna Flash's remix of Stereotyp's “Keepin Me,” for example), there's no denying the loveliness of the violin that sweetly sails through “Heart of Fire” or the lush horn writing that accompanies Ursula Rucker's silken voice during Raw Artistic Soul's superb “The Light.” The Beanfield mix of Koop's “I See a Different You” is sweet too, and certainly no one's going to argue when Matar and Graff end the release with Larry Heard's “The Sun Can't Compare,” whose ubiquity hasn't negated its appeal. Other disc two highlights include Fish Go Deep's “Esl,” which strips house to its soulful core, Julien Jabre's vibrant “The Stook,” and Rocco Tro Deep's remix of Cloudkickers' Police cover “Bring on the Night,” which doesn't start terribly promisingly but kicks into gear when the chorus hits. On the second disc in particular, Matar and Graff (wisely) broaden Volare's sound beyond the potentially one-dimensional ‘summer' vibe with darker techno and house moments by contributors like Pier Bucci and the aforementioned Heard.

November 2007