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"Gilles Snowcat's "Last Day On The Beach" hides a nostalgic background with a 70's and 80's style, oscillating between reggae and jazz fusion."
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Barely two years after "You "ve Benn Unboxing...", a kind of funk-erotic-Zappa hybrid, Gilles Snowcat offers himself a new musical escapade in the form of a 4-track EP plus a bonus remix track. If the previous album allowed a free and singular form of expression, this "Last Summer On The Beach" with its evocative name confirms this artistic direction.
What holds the attention here is the broken voice of the singer which has some similarities with the tone of Leonard Cohen. However, the music and the style are not quite the same as those of the late Canadian celebrity. There is here a crooner aspect that the artist certainly cultivates and as such 'Lemoncello' proves to be relatively amusing with its assumed reggae rhythm and its almost paradoxical vocal lines. For all that, if Gilles Snowcat, with his universe with several degrees, could lead to smile, he knows how to offer pieces which prove to be very solid musically. The musical bridge of 'Lemoncello' with a guitar solo turns out to be rather refined.
In the continuity of the previous album, we find a funky and groovy composition. 'Lemon Body Scrub' brings a little acidulous side to this album. In spite of its aspect a little scrambled, it has a certain charm. Taking the opposite of this title, the cover of the title 'Just How Many Times' of Cold Chisel brings a little more jazzy and fusion touch to a music which invokes some ghosts of the 70's. In this new version, the guitar replaces in part the original piano and the author keeps the magnificent solo of the version of the Australian group by reworking it a little. Gilles's voice, more serious, gives the song a greater gravity which enhances the interest of this new version. The second cover is of a 1984 song by Eddy Grant ('Blue Wave'), one of the popes of reggae. Gilles Snowcat voluntarily speeds up his rhythm a bit to stick a bit more to the overall style of the album, watering down a bit the original romantic aspect.
This EP turns out to be more serious than it seems and hides in it a nostalgic or even melancholic background. "Last Summer On The Beach" can be enjoyed like a good glass of fresh limoncello in a straw hut, by the sea at sunset. - Official website
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TRACK LISTING:
01. You've Been Drinking Limoncello
02. Lemon Body Scrub
03. Just How Many Times
04. Blue Wave
05. You've Been Drinking My Limoncello (bonus)
LINEUP:
Gilles Snowcat: Chant / Claviers
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