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01. LARS LEONHARD + ALVINA RED - Le Printemps
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02. LARS LEONHARD + ALVINA RED - Spring Day
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03. LARS LEONHARD + ALVINA RED - Deep Breath
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04. LARS LEONHARD + ALVINA RED - L'Été
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05. LARS LEONHARD + ALVINA RED - Dancing in the Noonday Sun
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06. LARS LEONHARD + ALVINA RED - Summer Storms
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07. LARS LEONHARD + ALVINA RED - L'Automne
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08. LARS LEONHARD + ALVINA RED - Colors of Autumn
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09. LARS LEONHARD + ALVINA RED - Soaking Wet
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10. LARS LEONHARD + ALVINA RED - L'Hiver
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11. LARS LEONHARD + ALVINA RED - Frozen Landscape
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12. LARS LEONHARD + ALVINA RED - Blizzard
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ARTIST
LEONHARD + ALVINA RED, LARS
TITLE
Seasons - Les quatre saisons
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
BINEMUSIC
CATALOG #
BINE 029CD
BINE 029CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
3/19/2013
It's been 287 years since
Antonio Vivaldi
wrote his popular masterpiece "The Four Seasons." Following in these musical footsteps,
Lars Leonhard
now takes on the idea of molding the distinct characteristics of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter into 12 pieces of electronic music. After the previous, purely instrumental releases by the Düsseldorf artist -- the remix EP
No Comment
(2012) and his debut album
1549
(2011) -- his new 12-track album
Seasons - Les quatre saison
features singer
Alvina Red
lending her voice to the first of each four seasons' three tracks in pure French -- a language whose natural melody is tailor-made for Leonhard's synthetic yet warming sounds. Living in Stockholm, Alvina Red is no newcomer either, gaining her first professional experience at the age of ten as a background singer for
Agnetha Fältskog
: the blonde
Abba
singer was looking for beautiful children's voices for her song "Take Good Care of Your Children" (the B-side of her hit single "The Heat Is On"). Following further engagements in professional choirs and as a singer, songwriter and keyboard player for several band projects, Alvina and Lars Leonhard get together on this joint release. With all tracks written in their respective season to add authenticity, production of
Seasons - Les quatre saison
took almost exactly one year. Leonhard starts the awakening of nature in Spring with the sleepy minimalistic "Le Printemps," a digital spring of tiny and frail sound-flowers on whose meadow Alvina's voice flies like a soft breeze. Following its soft doze are spheric ambient landscapes, deep house rhythms and dubby chords like on the feather-light "L'éte," and by "Dancing in the Noonday Sun" the dancefloor is open -- Leonhard's signature grooving dub-techno flows like a tequila sunrise at the Café del Mar. Just as the seasons' influence on our lives gets more or less intense, songs like the cryptic then rhythmic "Colors of Autumn" enter the listener's soul both wittingly or unwittingly before unfolding their energy. And once Winter's last frozen sound dies away with "Frozen Landscape," you can look forward to the next seasonal cycle.
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