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Backseat Lover

by Marshall Cooper

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  • Soundtrack des popkulturellen Diesseits

    Es ist ein Phänomen, wie es Marshall Cooper mit „Backseat Lover“ gelingen konnte, ein Debut-Album aufzunehmen, das eine einzige Huldigung an die globale Popkultur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts ist, ohne dass auch nur ein einziger Plattenliebhaber der Welt die Scheibe unter dem Genre Pop einsortieren würde. Grund für diese akustische Täuschung dürfte der wuchtige Brass Band-Sound sein, dem es gelingt ein wildes Knäul aus Genre-Klischees und popkulturellen Sniplets zu einer abwechslungsreichen und völlig neuen Assoziationskette des popkulturellen Diesseits aufzureihen. In dieser Welt der Illusion darf natürlich ein Medium nicht fehlen und so wird die Soundästhetik des analogen Old-School-Kinos zur treibenden Kraft, die es erlaubt, die epische Sprache der Filmmusik in den plakativen Sound einer Brass Band zu transformieren.

    Elegant fügt es sich, dass sich unter den 14 Tracks verschiedenste Musikstile finden. Von Swing, Rock n´ Roll, Funk und Pop bis hin zu klassischen Elementen kommt alles in den Filmmusikinkubator, komplettiert und veredelt durch effektvolle und analoge Dialogsamples und eine kleine aber feine Schaar an Gastmusikern.

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1.
Everglade 03:51
2.
Cooper Inferno 02:24
3.
Dogshot 02:56
4.
Porque Te Vas 03:30
5.
A Mexican Affair 03:37
6.
Drunken Heart 02:11
7.
Monster Chit-Chat 02:46
8.
Giant Monkey Bird Invasion 02:14
9.
The Big Funk 02:39
10.
Calling Don 03:15
11.
Don't Let Her Daddy Know 02:35
12.
Motherland 03:27
13.
The Orientalist 04:08
14.
Hat Is An Exciting Emotion 03:52

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The soundtrack to pop culture’s here and now

It’s simply phenomenal how Marshall Cooper has managed to turn his debut album “Backseat Lover” into an out-and-out homage to 20th and 21st century pop culture even though you won’t find a discophile anywhere who would place this album in the pop genre. This acoustic paradox is probably down to the brawny brass band sound which somehow, from a wild tangle of genre clichés and pop snippets, weaves a fresh and wide-ranging associative thread firmly rooted in pop culture’s here and now.
This illusory world is built on an essential cultural medium. Taking the sound aesthetics of analog old-school cinema as the driving force, the album transforms the epic language of film music into the bold and simple sound of a brass band.

The 14 tracks feature an elegant variety of musical styles, from swing, rock ‘n’ roll and funk to pop, with touches of classical mixed in. The ingredients are all thrown together into the film music pot, rounded off and refined with some dramatic dialogue samples and fleshed out with a small but exclusive flock of guest musicians.

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released February 28, 2015

Manuel Hilleke (Trumpet)
Joe Goltz (Trombone)
Viktor Wolf (Tenor Sax)
Matthew Bookert (Sousaphone)
Florian Schlechtriemen (Drums)
DJ Mahmut The 1st (Turntables & Samples)

feat. Alex Pugh (vocals on #4 & #11)
feat. Woody Galore (vocals on #5, #6 & #10)

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Herzog Records Hamburg, Germany

Label für Jazz, Lounge, World... Jeff Cascaro, Nighthawks, Rafael Cortés, Jessica Gall, Kitty Hoff, Lily Dahab, Alexander Stewart, LebiDerya, Les Brünettes, beat 'n blow, Benny Greb's Moving Parts, Pasadena Roof Orchestra Daniel Stelter, Trio Macchiato, Viaggio, Sebastian Studnitzky, Triband, Claude Chalhoub, Amy Antin ... more

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