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ITALIC 083CD
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"We are very happy to announce the release of Coloma's new album, Love's Recurring Dream, on Italic. After years of friendship and mutual admiration, we have seized this chance to work together. Alongside Italic's great affinity for electronic dance music in its multitude of forms, from techno to house to disco, we have always harbored a love for pop (attitudes), as exemplified by the likes of Prefab Sprout, Steely Dan, Orange Juice, Scritti Politti, Japan, Pulp or Scott Walker. The new Coloma album follows in this tradition and is an opportunity for us to reveal this aspect of our passion. We invite you to share in this world of perfect pop with us. Coloma is the collaboration between singer/lyricist Rob Taylor and producer/composer Alex Paulick. Though originally from England, the two spent a period of musical education and discovery in Cologne, Germany, where Taylor is still based. Paulick flits between Berlin, the UK and his teenage hometown in California (a few miles from the Gold Rush town of Coloma). This geographical caprice is without doubt one key to the Coloma sound. The fourth Coloma album is a song cycle with recurring harmonic and rhythmic themes. Lyrically, Love's Recurring Dream is a narrative chronicling the phases of a romance, which symbolically runs over the course of a year. In the twelve songs, singer Rob Taylor follows the progress of the seasons from spring, summer and autumn to winter, with the implicit promise that a new spring will follow. For the recording, a group of musicians was assembled in San Francisco for improvisational sessions that make up the body of the album. Precise editing by producer Alex Paulick brings coherence to these spontaneous takes, with performances ebbing and flowing between rather loose and artificially tight."
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WARE 038EP
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Features remixes by Monophace, Markus Güntner, Alex Paulick (Coloma) & Mathias Schaffhäuser.
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WARE 011CD
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"A little over a year after the release of their debut album Silverware, Alex Paulick and Rob Taylor are dressing up in their Sunday best to present Finery, a collection characterized by harmonious shape and classic lines. Once again the pair have clearly been attending to detail, as befits their bespoke approach to songwriting. Paulick's cuts (and clicks) are perfectly measured, and piano, vibraphone and violin (hand-played, of course) provide natural warmth. Taylor's voice is sometimes buttoned up; sometimes he gets just a little hot under the collar... As you are probably realizing, there is a common thread running through Finery. From a melodic yearning to put away the winter garb and put on the clothes that summer wears, along a procession of thought (in seven verses!) from a megalomaniac tailor, and on to a stream of consciousness journey wrapped in a coat made out of senses. 'Illegible Love' features Christoph Clöser, Of Bohren & The Club Of Gore."
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WARE 027LP
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WARE 026EP
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"A new chapter for Ware: The duo Coloma doesn't make dance music, but rather a wonderful hybrid between classic British pop-sensibility and crisp, minimal electronic music. 'Clicks'n'Pop(s)' is the buzzword on the scene. This pre-album remix maxi single guarantees Coloma a suitably worthy and seamless entrance into the world of Ware, prior the February release of the album Silverware. Decomposed Subsonic and Mathias Schaffhäuser build a bridge between those lofty Coloma melodies and typical Ware-dancefloor. Clyne (alias Thomas Klein of Kreidler) also contributes with a tastefully restrained, four-to-the-floor version of 'The Difference Between Silver & Grey', more or less the album's title song. 'Transparent' itself is a collaboration between Coloma and Mr. Subsonic, created in two intensive night sessions, and is as clear and resonant as cut crystal. By the way: Coloma's singer is Rob Taylor, who also sings that 'Hey Little Girl'. His partner Alex Paulick is primarily responsible for the wonderfully understated instrumentation and production (he also doubles as live-bassist for the Düsseldorf band Kreidler)."
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