On this album I wanted to explore the current fashion for analogue
synthesis and pure analogue sounds, placed against different styles of modern
dance music but also continuing my efforts to write electronic music which takes
the listener on a journey in every song. This album was six months in the making; written, recorded and produced in the second half of 2013.
The 11 tracks include rave, trip-hop, trance, rap and drum & bass influenced
music unified by electrifying, screaming leads, pounding drums and complex
arrangements, interspersed with more vocal sections than in previous albums.
Play this on your iPod in the gym and run faster, jump higher and hit harder.
Play it on your car radio and I can't be held responsible for your speeding
fines! Please enjoy...Rush.
Flex Your Trunk sees Kalabi experimenting with some darker trip hop elements than on his earlier work for the first half of the album, with the second half of the album containing some beautiful floaty chill out as a counter balance.
Somewhere between birth and death you begin to look deeper, to ask the big questions. Every civilization since the beginning of time has worshipped some sort of deity - almost as if it's written in our DNA. This is an album of conversations, rants, curses and longings for a God that repairs, that fixes all the broken parts.
Description:
Renaissance and Baroque beautiful music revealed by Dutch gambist and multi-instrumentalist
The Italian recorder player Romeo Ciuffa visited the Netherlands for this
concert. We have chosen an all Italian program ranging from the Early baroque
with Giovanni Paolo Cima (c. 1570 - 1622), till the high Baroque period with
Francesco Maria Veracini (1690 - 1768).
On this album we have recorded some canzonas for solo or duo instruments
(recorder and viola da gamba) and some sonatas for recorder and basso continuo.
Karel Smagge also played some solo works on the organ of the Meerburgkerk
Zoeterwoude in the Netherlands.
Although we were in this combination joined for the first time, our musical
temperaments matched remarkably well.
This album was recorded during rehearsal time for a concert program with
Italian baroque music in the Summer of 2013.