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Atlantic Jaxx Recordings & Basement Jaxx are pleased to announce the release
of a new orchestral project in collaboration with the Netherlands’ Metropole
Orkest and renowned London conductor and arranger, Jules Buckley.
The project features a full sixty piece orchestra along with a twenty voice choir
and sees the Metropole Orkest perform classical and contemporary orchestral
versions of the legendary Basement Jaxx back catalogue.
Highlights include instrumental reinterpretations of the Jaxx breakthrough tune,
“Red Alert” and 2009’s “Raindrops”, a waltz version of “Bingo Bango”, the
Balkan stomper “Hey U” & the haunting ballad “Lights Go Down”, sung by long
time Jaxx collaborator, Sharlene Hector.
Produced and orchestrated over the last year by Jules Buckley and Basement
Jaxxs’ Felix Buxton and featuring many of the singers from their legendary live
shows (including LA’s finest, Lisa Kekaula, on “Good Luck”) the album will
also include an original piece, written by Felix, especially for this orchestral
project.
The combination of the Metropole Orkest’s cutting edge approach to orchestral
interpretation, Basement Jaxx's uniquely skewed take on dance music and Jules
Buckley's innovative conducting and arranging results in a remarkable
soundclash – Basement Jaxx as you’ve never heard them before. (Who’d have
imagined hearing a baroque harpsichord playing “Where’s Your Head At” ?)
The album is a mixture of studio recordings and live performances culled from
the first (and only) presentation of the project, in Eindhoven, in February of this
year and will be released on CD and digital download to coincide with the UK
premiere of the piece as part of this Summer’s “Blaze” programme at London’s
Barbican Theatre on July 14th and 15th.
These shows will feature a full cast of guest vocalists as well as the 70-strong
Metropole Orkest and the celebrated 40 voice Crouch End Festival Chorus
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RELEASE: 18.JULI 2011
ART: JAXXCD006
PPD: CD4
EAN: 5051083058841
LABEL: PIAS UK
Album Tracklisting:
1 Battlement Jaxx
2 Red Alert
3 Raindrops
4 Mozarts Tea Party
5 Bingo Bango
6 Hush Boy
7 Where’s Your Head At
8 Good Luck
9 Drill Loops
10 Lights Go Down
11 Violin Solo
12 If I Recover
13 Hey U
14 Do Your Thing
15 Samba Magic
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