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所属专辑：Under Tangled Silence - Djrum
风格：#新古典主义，#碎拍，#新爵，#英式贝斯，#科技舞曲，#氛围乐，#智能舞曲
"We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves." This line from Patti Smith was going round and round Felix Manuel' s head as he gradually constructed Under Tangled Silence, his first album in six years and a record of a literal creative rebirth. Felix originally began it in earnest in 2020 Covid lockdown, but a catastrophic hard-drive meltdown destroyed almost all his work and sent him close to psychic collapse himself. However, ultimately this pushed him to rebuild from scratch and in so doing to confront and reassess every part of his musical and psychological processes. The result is utterly extraordinary. Felix was a child prodigy as an instrumentalist and his advanced musicality has always been prominent in his music, but here he has put himself front and centre as pianist, harpist and more. And this sense of exposure as a performer interweaves with an unflinching emotional openness too. Where sometimes electronic production as advanced as this can use intellect and techniques as shields from soul-baring, this is the sound of someone who can boldly say " I feel things, I cry all the time, and I'm not afraid to say it or show it in the music." But this doesn ' t mean there ' s a move away from the soundsystems and dancefloors where Felix made his name as a uniquely innovative vinyl DJ. Even just in the opening track " A Tune for Us ",minimalist piano ripples and jazz drumming flow into the breaks of vintage jungle - and as the structure of the LP unfolds, a deep ambient meditation like " Hold " can sit very naturally in between the futurist dancehall of " L ' Ancienne " and the high-definition acid house mind movie of " Galaxy in Silence ".In fact, as with the hands-on musicianship, that gutsy big-speaker electronic impact is delivered with more certainty, more expertise, more personal flourishes than ever. And all of those elements are more integrated than ever too: the sound of a total musical personality emerging afresh is truly something to behold. An already remarkable talent has been refreshed, reborn and is making the music of his life.
“我们走过人生。我们褪去旧皮。我们成为自己。”帕蒂·史密斯的这句话在费利克斯·曼努埃尔的脑海中反复回响，他逐渐创作出了《在缠绕的寂静之下》，这是他六年来首张专辑，也是一张实实在在的创作重生之作。费利克斯最初在 2020 年的新冠封锁期间认真着手创作，但一次灾难性的硬盘崩溃几乎毁掉了他所有的作品，也让他自己几近精神崩溃。然而，最终这促使他从零开始重建，从而重新审视和评估自己音乐和心理过程的每一个环节。结果令人惊叹。费利克斯自幼就是一位乐器演奏神童，他高超的音乐才能在以往的作品中一直十分突出，但在这张专辑中，他将自己置于舞台中央，担任钢琴手、竖琴手等角色。这种作为表演者的自我暴露感与毫不掩饰的情感坦诚交织在一起。有时，如此先进的电子制作会用智力和技术作为袒露灵魂的盾牌，而这张专辑则是一位敢于直言“我有感受，我总是哭泣，我不怕在音乐中表达和展现”的人的声音。但这并不意味着菲利克斯会远离那些让他以独具创新的黑胶唱片 DJ 身份成名的音响系统和舞池。即便在开场曲《A Tune for Us》中，简约的钢琴涟漪和爵士鼓点也流畅地融入了复古丛林音乐的间奏之中——随着整张专辑的展开，像《Hold》这样深邃的环境冥想曲目，也能很自然地出现在未来主义舞厅曲《L' Ancienne》和高清晰度的迷幻浩室心灵电影《Galaxy in Silence》之间。事实上，就像他亲力亲为的音乐演奏一样，那种大胆震撼的电子音效冲击力也比以往任何时候都更坚定、更专业、更具个人特色。而且所有这些元素也比以往任何时候都更加融合：一个全新的音乐个性正在焕然新生，这确实令人惊叹。这位已然非凡的天才，如今已焕然一新、重获新生，并正在创作他一生中最出色的音乐。
released April 25, 2025 Written, produced and arranged by Felix Manuel from 2017 to 2023. Piano, harp, mbira, percussion - Felix Manuel Cello - Zosia Jagodzinska Tracks 1,6,7 - additional writing by Zosia Jagodzinska Track 8- vocals by Willow and Rudy Manuel Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Metropolis, London. Manufactured at optimal-media, Germany. Creative Director & Photographer -Riya Hollings
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@xvsvt：新古典电子节拍，在挫折低谷中发热的声音设计大师之作。2025年音乐迪哥吹牛资本之一
