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CD-DETAILS VOICES AND CHOICES [LEE, SHAWN'S PING PONG ORCHESTRA]

Lee, Shawn's Ping Pong Orchestra

Voices And Choices [Electronic / Dance]


RELEASE: 26.01.2007


LABEL: Ubiquity Records

VERTRIEB: Groove Attack

WEBSITE: www.shawnlee.net/

In Shawn Lee's world Ennio Morricone dances with Esquivel and Gainsbourg as spaghetti western guitars and harmonicas ride fat drum breaks accompanied by vibes, lush strings, and piano. On "Voices And Choices" Lee's signature style moody instrumentals are accompanied by vocals for the first time in four albums. Full songs and instrumental textures are nods to classic producers David Axelrod and Charles Stepney who used choir-like walls of vocal to create their big productions. Ubiquity label mate Nino Moschella joins Lee on the rock'n'soul epic "Kiss The Sky", while Ohmega Watts waxes positive lyrical on "The Hour Glass Effect". Instrumentals "JW" and "Song For David" are just begging for an accompanying movie to match the cinematic sounds, while "Tense Bossa" and "Glass Act" feature subtle vocal parts to heighten the spy-theme tension.
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra started off as an experiment. Multi-instrumentalist and record collector Lee was obsessed with vintage library records and wanted to see if he could recreate their soundtrack-worthy sounds in his curio-shop-like London studio. Library records were originally produced to provide instrumental musical backing for TV, film, radio and advertising. Specific library records have become highly collectable, and are favored by DJs and producers for the occasional drum break, sample, or funk track.
Lee's idea was to make full-length library albums that were good from start to finish and equally listenable at home as they might also be DJ friendly. Unsure of how commercially successful these records would be, the first three albums were released in limited pressings and with only a very minor publicity push. However, not only did Lee succeed in recreating the vibe of classic library records, he also attracted the interest of advertisers and producers with tracks being used in commercials for BMW and Jaguar, in tv shows like "Malcolm in the Middle", "Lost", "Desperate Housewives", and "Boston Legal", in the trailer for the forthcoming "Oceans 13" movie, and the soundtrack to "The Break Up". He was also asked to score the entire soundtrack to the highly controversial Rock Star video game "Bully" (nominated for Game Best Original Score) and "Save Angel Hope", a movie which will be released in 2007.
Inspired by the success of his instrumental albums Shawn Lee raises the stakes on "Voices And Choices", which follows the release of the Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra vs. Nino Moschella EP (featuring collaborations and remixes from both artists and a remix by Mark Pritchard). Lee is planning on taking the Ping Pong Orchestra live in 2007 and is already working on a new album of all pop song cover versions.

As a multi-instrumentalist and singer Shawn Lee has played and recorded with a diverse range of artists including Psapp, Coldcut, Leeann Rhimes, Martina Mcbride, UNKLE, Tony Joe White, Chateau Flight, The Dust Brothers, St. Etienne, Jeff Buckley, Bomb The Bass, The Spice Girls, and Natasha Atlas, not to mention solo records for Talkin Loud, Wall Of Sound imprint We Love You and BBE. He is also known to breaks'n'beats collectors as the man behind "The Ape Breaks" and "Planet Of The Breaks" series which were sampled by everyone from Guru to The Gorillaz.


Tracklisting:

01. Intro
02. Song For David
03. Tense Bossa
04. Kiss The Sky feat. Nino Moschella
05. Fiendish Fifth
06. Francoise Hardy
07. Glass Act
08. Perculator
09. Nod Your Head
10. The Hour Glass Effect feat. Ohmega Watts
11. JW
12. Changing Times
13. Bobulski
14. Mondo Mondo
15. Tired
16. Jawbreaker

(Quelle: PR | Groove Attack, Dezember 2006)


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