last summer i was up i stockholm to attend the release party for daniel savio's third full length album which was selftitled/untitled (by his own words mind you). i had heard "revolt" on youtube and heard an interview with him on local radio station metropol 93.8. i was already in the know about his previous music but i was up for hearing him in a live setting.
it was quite amazing and there was a whole lot of people crammed into this small room all in a half circle around savio and his machines. it was difficult to even move your body but i had since his beats was impossible to stand still to. he performed a few of his tunes from the album but with a hefty load of improvisation and i remember especially "inseminoid" which i learned later that it was called. after the show i listened a little bit to the album but i was sort of let down comparedt o the live versions as nothing was up to par to them.
so when daniel savio announced that he was releasing a new record on soundcloud and twitter, about a week ago, i was very interested. it was to be called "ill eagle" and "flying rats" was to be the single for the album and it's an great piece of skweee but when of course i knew there was to be more of that good stuff on the record.
the day after i listened through the album and i wasn't wrong about that but i also realised that there was a fixation on birds and especially on pigeons as four of ten are have that reference. never the less it's not about our flying friends but it is about the funk and i have three favourites track on the record. "sleezy genes" with it's deep bass and atmospheric tone, "pigeons" with it's banging drive and wild arrangement of sounds and then also "real gangstas don't live".
right from the get-go it starts with an infectious bassline and while the arrangement is quite straightforward it doesn't matter as the level of funk is set firmly on eleven. somehow i imagine myself trawling around really smoothly and not being bothered by the winter that it's clinging on it's last days. it's impossible to not move your body to this song or be anyhow affected that bassline to the rhythm in general.
it's probably the kind of stunning funk that even mr. dām-funk would be into. i heard him on radio talking about how certain producers are taking their funk influences into directions he wasn't fond but i think this could have easily be one of his productions. it is a bit more lo-fi than most as savio brand of skweee is quite true to the format however there is same foundation.
what matter is if it's funky or not and if i haven't made myself clear then this is really funky and so is most of the works on this album. well recommended.
buy here (bandcamp)
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