{"id":633,"date":"2016-06-21T19:30:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T18:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conedm.nl\/?p=633"},"modified":"2021-10-14T19:24:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T18:24:58","slug":"2meetu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conedm.nl\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"New album: 2meetu"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2<\/a>The 2meetu <\/i>title -correctly- suggests the\u00a0influence from Prince and his\u00a0style of writing\u00a0song titles. It serves as a small ode\u00a0to commemorate the late artist from Minneapolis who always had\u00a0such a major\u00a0influence on Ewald\u2019s music.<\/p>\n

The lyrical theme of the album\u2019s title song 2meetu<\/strong>\u00a0is about the process of saying farewell to\u00a0the pillars of one\u2019s youth and the somewhat unbearable thought that any interaction or contact with these people will be\u00a0secluded forever. The whole album breathes an atmosphere of this sadness augmented by the\u00a0loss and detachment from events unfolding in the real world where freedom and progressive thinking is becoming\u00a0increasingly under pressure. The music almost becomes a way to\u00a0escape from these harsh realities.<\/p>\n

Originally the goal of the album was to collect a string of compositional sketches, mainly in the domain of electronic music, that had been composed and recorded between late\u00a02015 and May 2016. But while in the process of making that compilation new songs were composed, recorded, finished and a number of these\u00a0new songs made their way into this album. The album 2meetu<\/i>\u00a0has an outspoken electronic character: the Roland TR-8 drum computer is omnipresent in the tracks and there is little to no room for guitars or acoustic instruments. The album is instrumental with the exception of the vocal title track.<\/p>\n

Despite the more dark atmosphere throughout the album 2meetu<\/em>\u00a0starts with\u00a0a rather light hearted, almost frivole track:\u00a0From Silence\u2026to Sound<\/b> followed by the album\u2019s main and most prominent track 2meetu<\/b>, a melodic and catchy 3 minute statement.
\nIt\u2019s Getting Late <\/b>sounds dark, fast and mysterious, while next track Festival of Light<\/b> has a more conventional and melodic approach. Syntheblues<\/b> is exactly what the song title suggests: the mix of a blues inspired chord scheme with synthesizer music: the Moog bass fulfils a prominent role in this track.<\/p>\n

Next comes an ambitious yet peacefully arranged track Whitestar<\/b>. The composition started its life with the intention to become a vocal track, yet the version on this album is an instrumental one. The song was composed as the anti pole of Bowie\u2019s Blackstar<\/i>. Whitestar<\/i> tells the tale of the people who must cope with the loss of the Blackstars<\/i>, the deceased ones.The songs ends in a heavily synthesized ethereal segment that serves as the outro of the song. This outro is strongly\u00a0reminiscent of 1970s synthesizer music, like for example you can find on Steve Miller\u2019s Fly Like An Eagle<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The final song Au Revoir<\/b> was inspired and written around the time of the terrorist assaults in Paris in November 2015. It serves as a memory to an era of freedom and (the feeling of) progress coming to an end. Yet Au Revoir<\/b> is not the album\u2019s final track as it is followed by two more, hidden instrumental tracks, Hidden\u00a0<\/b>and Where<\/b> both songs finished right in time before the album\u2019s release. Hidden<\/b> has some similarities\u00a0with the music that Stevie Wonder produced in the 1970s, while Where<\/b> is exploring ambient musical textures. These hiddentracks brings the running time of Au Revoir<\/b> to almost 10 minutes and the album itself to 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

2meetu<\/em> will be available from July 2nd 2016 on all major music streaming and download services.<\/p>\n

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