RELEASE: Tide Will Turn
ARTIST(S): Tom Trago
REMIXERS:
LABEL: Jong Nederland | JNL003
GENRE: LOSSLESS, Electro (Classic / Detroit / Modern)
RELEASED: 2022-01-28
AVAILABLE FORMAT: 976Kbps/LOSSLESS
DOWNLOAD SIZE: 98.22 MB
TOTAL TRACKS 3
- Tom Trago – Number Own (04:32) key, bpm146
- Tom Trago – Tide Will Turn (04:36) key, bpm120
- Tom Trago – Understood (06:10) key, bpm141
Total Playtime: 00:15:18 min
During 2020/21, when the global pandemic raged and hundreds of millions of people around the world were confined to their homes, Tom Trago kept himself busy by increasing his daily music-making activities. As he had done pre-pandemic, Trago set aside time each day to improvise and record tracks in the studio attached to his home in Bergen on the Netherlands North-West coast.
Tide Will Turn, Tragos third release on the Jong Nederlands label he established to share his work, showcases three such outings. As with previous EPs on Jong Nederlands, each of the tracks was created using a small selection of electronic instruments, drumcomputers and effects units.
EP opener Number Own is typically emotive and quietly colourful, with chiming lead lines, sustained synthesizer chords, stirring riffs and fluid electronic motifs rising above bustling, body-popping beats and a smooth, jazzy bassline. Bubbly and ear-pleasing, its the aural equivalent of watching sunlight bounce off the waves that wash up on the beach just a few hundred metres from Tragos studio.
Title track Tide Will Turn is an altogether more relaxed and becalmed affair. Its drowsy chords and gentle, undulating melodies slowly sashay their way between clicking drum machine percussion and slow-motion beats. Trago picks things up again on Understood, wrapping attractive synth stabs, cascading lead lines and fizzing electronics around a pulsating bassline and breathless, all-action, electro-influenced beats. It provides a fittingly attractive and emotion-rich conclusion to another fine batch of straight-to-tape improvisations.
Tide Will Turn, Tragos first EP of 2021 and the third release on the Jong Nederlands label he established to share his work, showcases three such outings. As with previous EPs on Jong Nederlands, each of the tracks was created using a small selection of electronic instruments, drumcomputers and effects units.
EP opener Number Own is typically emotive and quietly colourful, with chiming lead lines, sustained synthesizer chords, stirring riffs and fluid electronic motifs rising above bustling, body-popping beats and a smooth, jazzy bassline. Bubbly and ear-pleasing, its the aural equivalent of watching sunlight bounce off the waves that wash up on the beach just a few hundred metres from Tragos studio.
Title track Tide Will Turn is an altogether more relaxed and becalmed affair. Its drowsy chords and gentle, undulating melodies slowly sashay their way between clicking drum machine percussion and slow-motion beats. Trago picks things up again on Understood, wrapping attractive synth stabs, cascading lead lines and fizzing electronics around a pulsating bassline and breathless, all-action, electro-influenced beats. It provides a fittingly attractive and emotion-rich conclusion to another fine batch of straight-to-tape improvisations.//
