HAND NUMBERED! LTD 300 COPIES! Ferdi - Playing Life [CLAREMONT 56]

>>> Thanks for being subscribed to Horizons Music. No longer interested? :0 HORIZONSMUSIC Something special for you Every now and then, we like to feature some of our favorite products. Well, we've got something special here for you today. Get yours before they're gone! Ferdi - Playing Life [2LP] Ferdi - Playing Life [2LP] CLAREMONT 56 £29.70 Add to cart View product Format: 2 x Hand numbered Gatefold, limited to 300 copies Catalogue No.: C56LP024 Release Date: 05 May 2023 Genre: Balearic / Instru / Chilled Side A Dream Quality A Step Further Playing Life Side B Due The Fuzz Version Osho Again Side C Light Minded Moving Forms Gentle Man Universal Dance Side D Pulsing Lungern Vastness Four years after wowing listeners with his surprise debut album, All One, Ferdi Schuster is back with a similarly inspired sequel. Taking his distinctive, freewheeling approach to its predecessor, Playing Life offers a set of inspired instrumentals full of soft-focus grooves, alluring musical motifs, subtle mood shifts and plenty of intricate musical details. In fact, such is the layered nature of the productions, you’ll still be noticing new things on your fifth or sixth listen. Those who know Schuster’s story and previous work for Claremont 56 won’t be at all surprised. Arguably the label’s best-kept secret, Schuster ended up on Paul ‘Mudd’ Murphy’s label in 2017 after speculatively submitting a demo. Murphy was blown away by the quality of the publicity-shy multi-instrumentalist’s work and asked him to work on an album; two years later, All One appeared in stores and the rest, as they say, is history. Just as he did on his celebrated debut album, Schuster played every instrument, note, chord and riff on Playing Life, arranging and producing the whole thing at different points between 2020 and 2023. The results are undeniably spellbinding, with the talented artist arguably delivering an even more assured, attractive and entertaining set. For proof, check opener ‘Dream Quality’, a sumptuous affair in which immersive pads, jazzy guitars, twinkling keys and smooth bass rise above a dubby, minimalistic beat, the steel pan-infused gentle jog towards the dancefloor that is ‘A Step Further’, and the Balearic ambient jazz masterpiece that is ‘Due’. Or, for that matter, the lapping waves and deep, dubbed-out grooves of ‘Playing Life’, and the starry magnificence of ‘Light Minded’, where Ferdi offers a few nods to the great Pat Metheny over twinkling synths and sparse, spaced-out beat. Everywhere you look across the album, you’ll find a softly spun, exquisitely executed highlight. There’s ‘Moving Forms’, whose instinctive beat pattern and sun-bright jazz guitars enrich the soul, the marimba-sporting sunset wonder of ‘Universal Dance’, the chunky dub disco shuffle of ‘Pulsing’ and the awe-inspiring brilliance of ‘Vastness’, a suitably star-gazing, effects-laden excursion that provides a fittingly impressive conclusion to an album dripping with emotion-rich sonic gold. Other bestsellers Hillside - Sunday In June X A W I il p Hillside - Sunday In June CLAREMONT 56 £25.92 Shop now O ?fl STEREO 45 SIDEA 656075 WALPOLE DAYS JOE CLAUSSELL'S SACRED RHYTHM VERSION MURPHYSEARLEDAWES UMITED T0 500 GLAREMONT 56 2020 o claramon6.com Hillside - Walpole Days (Joe Claussell mixes) CLAREMONT 56 £21.60 Shop now Hear & Now - Aurora Baleare [Repress] Hear & Now - Aurora Baleare [Repress] Claremont 56 £27.90 Shop now 6; 7 7a R RN Hillide I JOE GLAUSSELL'S COSMIC ARTS JAM LHHTED"U e HILLSIDE - Walpole Days (limited 12") CLAREMONT 56 £17.99 Shop now Claremont Editions – Vol 3 (various artists) Claremont Editions – Vol 3 (various artists) Claremont 56 £29.70 Shop now Fürsattl – Rheinlust Fürsattl – Rheinlust Claremont 56 £29.70 Shop now SMITH & MUDD - Le Suivant L3N0 LN VI 2 SUIVANT SMITH & MUDD - Le Suivant Claremont 56 £12.99 Shop now Hear & Now - Aurora Baleare Hear & Now - Aurora Baleare Claremont 56 £20.99 Shop now Jpye - Samba With You Jpye - Samba With You CLAREMONT 56 £27.90 Shop now Hear & Now - Milvus Hear & Now - Milvus CLAREMONT 56 £27.90 Shop now ALMUNIA - Pulsar [Repress] Mmunia ALMUNIA - Pulsar [Repress] Claremont 56 £25.92 Shop now Leo Almunia - Minor Circle Leo Almunia - Minor Circle CLAREMONT 56 £27.90 Shop now JPYE & RENATO - Cosa Ti Va JPYE & RENATO - Cosa Ti Va Claremont 56 £13.99 Shop now 6411 ornl STEREO 45 SIDE A 656074 al 614'7 SERPENT STRUT FEAT DAVID HARKS 40 THIEVES MIX PARTS 1 2 CUTTERSANDERS PRODUCED BY 40 THIEVES GLaREHONT 56 2020 o clarmont6.com Jack Cutter / Almunia remix sampler Claremont 56 £13.99 Shop now View all Youtube Twitter Facebook [email protected] © 2023 Horizons Music. All rights reserved. 58 Vernon Drive · Stanmore HA7 2BT · United Kingdom Powered by Seguno