A Divine State Of Mind

”ベーチャン系”という言葉まで生んだドイツを代表するエレクトロニカ・レーベル Basic Channel の音響系ダブ・レーベル Burial よりRhythm & Soundの顔として数多くの作品をクリエイトするヴォーカリスト、TikimanことPaul St. Hilaireのセカンドをドロップ。ギター、オルガンなどを使用したディープで中毒性のあるエレクトロニカ・ダブ・サウンド。ズブズブ、ドロ～ンとハマって抜け出せません。この手のサウンドが好きな人は必携です!!

aul St. Hilaire hails from Dominica Island, but his approach to contemporary roots reggae has been profoundly shaped by his adopted home of Berlin, where dub and techno go hand in hand almost as a matter of course and where swinging acid jazz rhythms can appear in the mix without warning. St. Hilaire's sound is dreamy rather than trippy, and feathery rather than smooth -- unfailingly pleasant, but rarely obvious. Lyrically, he's as susceptible to cliché as every other rootsman: song titles include, inevitably, "Jah Love," "Humble," "Black Moses," and "Praise." But that's fine -- when the music is this warm and soothing, you don't necessarily want to be startled by an unexpected turn of phrase. So the faintly jazzy "Jah Won't Let Us Down," which follows the almost soporifically dubwise "Praise" and precedes the sumptuously beautiful "Clock a Tick," is distinguished not by its originality, but rather by its formal perfection. And when he pushes aside some of the ambient gauze to deliver more sturdily rootswise fare like "Jah Live Over the Hills," it sounds positively militant by comparison. Docked half a star for the children's chorus on "Fortunate." Recommended. ~ Rick Anderson|

ベーシック・チャンネルの傘下レーベル＝ファルス・チューンドから、ティキマンことポール・セント・イライヤが2作目をリリースしました。リズム&サウンドでのクールに溶けていく音に対して、土臭いサウンドで彼のヴォーカルを前面に出したあたりは流石にセルフ・プロデュースの賜物。マジックを伴った声がリラックスしながら沈んでいきます。いまの音響とルーツ・テイストを絶妙に組み合わせた、前作を超える出来でしょう。
bounce (C)池田 謙司