Seefeel - Everything Squared - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Seefeel - Seefeel [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging date 02/01/2011

As a lifelong soul boy - poet, actor, presenter Craig Charles has been adding to his trunk of funk music since his youth, and now after almost 20 years hosting his world renowned BBC6 Music and Radio 2 shows, DJing at clubs and festivals around the globe his reputation as an ambassador for all things soulful & funky is indisputable.Craig was overwhelmed with the success of Volume 1 which hit the Official UK Album charts; InchIt's been a whole year (and what a weird year) since I unleashed Volume 1 on a music starved world. It clearly hit home with a funk hungry public as it got into the UK charts, nestled between film soundtracks and pop compilations, so I'd like to thank everyone for supporting - especially those who grabbed the double vinyl album - that was an instant sell out!InchVolume 2 contains all the trademark features his fans have come to love - kicking off with The Allergies - and their 100% exclusive Trunk Of Funk remix of their bombastic Move On Baby.A1/1. The Allergies - Slow Down Baby - Exclusive Trunk OfFunk remixA2/2. Cha Wa - My PeopleA3/3. Acantha Lang - He Said / She SaidA4/4. The Lafayette Afro Rock 22Band - Soul MakossaA5/5. STR4TA - Rhythm In Your MindB1/6. The Bamboos - Ride on TimeB2/7. Jay Nemor & Electrified - Sitting On Top Of The WorldB3/8. Mario Biondi - This Is What You AreB4/9. Luther Ingram - If It's All The Same To You BabeB5/10. The Souljazz Orchestra - Sorrow Fly AwayC1/11 Smoove & Turrell - Slow Down - Smooves ExclusiveTrunk Of Funk editC2/12. Joseph Malik - Mixed Race CombinationC3/13. The Crow - Your Autumn Of TomorrowC4/14. Ferry Ultra ft Ashley Slater - Why Did You Do It? - TheReflex Revision (Edit)C5/15. The Traffic - Beat ItD1/16. Lettuce Ft. Big Tony & Jungle Boogie - CheckerWreckerD2/17. Joel Culpepper - WARD3/18. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Hole In OneD4/19. PM Warson - (Don't) Hold Me Down

4 panel gatefold wallet. Seefeel return with their first full-length album in fifteen years - a beautiful, hazy and blissed out collection of fractured melodies and vaporous textures. In some ways, this can be regarded as Seefeel's 'dub' album - the deceptively cloud-like arrangements of Mark Clifford are somewhat ambient adjacent at low volume, but blasting out of a proper sound system, the cavernous bass undertow and skilful employment of effects are more apparent, messing with the listener's perception of time and audio placement. As always with Seefeel though, it never drifts too far into cold experimentalism or synthetic texture, the heavily manipulated vocals of Sarah Peacock lending the tracks a vital human element, with processed guitar loops allowing slivers of melody to drift through the trails of delay. The longtime perception of the band as sitting at the overlap point between electronic music and experimental guitar music meant that they were often overlooked during their original lifespan, not making music that was instantly recognisable to either scene. Over the years though, this blurring of genre lines increasingly looks prescient of where music was headed, steadily building a catalogue of music that hasn't aged in quite the same way as some of their contemporaries. Their influence has been cited by a new generation of artists such as Maria Somerville and Yu Su, and they return in 2026 with Sol. Hz, a collection of new tracks that further reinforce the idea that Seefeel's time has finally come.