Wednesday 31 October 2012

clara hill meets meitz - run

"run" comes from clara hill's second album, which was released on jazzanova's sonar kollektiv. hill is the singer / songwriter of the collective but the music steered towards the jazzanova sound in the first two albums and took a more folky route on her third. her softmore album was a collaboration record where she sought out producers such as king britt, george levin, atjazz, slope, vikter duplaix and in this case meitz.

this is one of two songs that hill made with volker meitz and it is the uptempo of the two. "run" is a track that evokes so many feelings in the context of the album. the main one being that it's so polished and poppy but it really surprises me that it comes from clara hill or volker meitz. with regards to the slick sound is maybe a flirt towards airplay but it wasn't a single nor did it end up on compilations such as the hed kandi or ilk.

none the less it is a really good song and it reminds me of jay denes' productions on the less deeper tip. it rolls on with a lighter house sound but with a slight 80's influence but in that sort of neo-funk way. lyrically the song is good but the chorus is on an enervating state. it's catchy but pushes the level of dumb and wouldn't the rest of the track musically be good i would have discarded it completely.

basically the bassline is so good and funky that i will put up with clara hill employing that chorus.

buy here (sonar kollektiv shop)

note: the sk-shop has autoplay on said selected tracks with no stop-button but the whole track can be heard

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