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If music can take our mind to any imaginable place, on endless individual journeys, Noa Erni’s “The Mental Traveller” is the infinite soundtrack. A soundtrack for mental wandering and soul searching, a blend of rap, jazz and hip-hop beats. “The Mental Traveller”, an album assembled like a literary anthology, offers musical arrangements and unique narratives where epilogue and prologue of each track merge seamlessly. Far beyond the horizon of compiling single tracks, “The Mental Traveller” is a journey of sound and unity. Inspired by David Axelrod and William Blake, Ahmad Jamal and Flying Lotus – just to name a few – this work aims to be a tribute to these legends’ legacies of past, present and future, detached from trends, norms and classical narrative structure. Swiss-born producer and computer conductor Noa Erni has been crafting obscure jazz and hip-hop behind closed curtains (a.k.a. his flat in Berlin, Germany) for years – free from external pressure and as an adjunct to his day jobs as sommelier and co-owner of local fine wine store “Friedenauer Weinhandlung”. While the album sounds like it was played by a jazz outfit with years of stage experience, the truth surprises and is even more exciting: Noa crafted the songs in countless hours of experimenting with a midi keyboard, various instrument plugins and perfected reverb settings. It was not one and the same band but one and the same person. Just a few tracks include actual live instruments.
TRACKLIST:
0:00 - The Mental Traveller Takes Off
1:06 - The Mental Traveller Theme
6:12 - Train Ride
9:33 - Seeds of Labor
12:46 - Microsleep
15:56 - Longitude
20:10 - Calmility
22:51 - Second Nature of the Beast
24:46 - Square
26:53 - Uncertainty
29:51 - Shapes
32:25 - Damn, It's Sunny
released April 30, 2021
All tracks composed, played and produced by Noa Erni
[2] Vocals by Nardo Says, Drums & percussion by Max von der Goltz
[3] Flugelhorn by Miles Bonny
[4] Vocals by Shamir of WOLM
[6] Co-production by S. Fidelity, Bass by Roman Klobe
[8] Vocals by Count Bass D
[9] Vocals by Nardo Says
[10] Drums & percussion by Max von der Goltz
[12] Co-production by Robot Orchestra
Mixed by S. Fidelity & Noa Erni at Manolo Purple Studio
Mastered by Mark Pfurtscheller at Chin Chat Studio
Artwork by Benedikt Luft
Graphic design by Dominik Keller
Animations by SMS 3D
physical distribution by wordandsound / whatpeopleplay
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