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Beat's n Bobs

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For all nu jazz fans.... simply buy it. It's a a great cd it has some dance moments and some very cool slow jazzy tracks (check out "love is here to stay" and "time"), "Spirits with jiwe" is a track I had listened 'till I consumend the cd, it's a african sounding like track with a jazzy-house feel ...it has to be listen... the last track is inspired to eric satie gymnopedie, it's a slow piano solo with subtile synth arrangements and a sax outro .... simply marvellous
Don't think about saint germain des pres compilation or to the various nu jazz composers, this is really different from the others it deserves to be listened to jason robertson is a great toughtfull musician .... put it in an hour around midnight...it'll creates an atmosphear that is unique.

Heralding from Glasgow, Scotland, Aqua Bassino delivers a pitch perfect album under a startling array of influences, ranging from Jazz and African rhythms, to Nu-Soul and House. "Beats and Bobs" unfolds each track with a deep and intimate layering of textures, a lot of which is provided by live instrumentation and vocal performances. Avoiding over sampling and the generic feel of drum machines, it favors quiet rhythms with an organic feel. At times, the piano delivers such emotionally rich melodies, a strange melancholy creeps in, and seems to resuscitate the spirits of Eric Satie and Claude Debussy.

I first listened to this CD in a record store in Tokyo and I suppose word hasn't made it across the ocean yet. This is one of the best albums I have purchased in a long time. Great mix of jazz and downtempo with a little house thrown in on a few of the tracks. If you like St Germain you should definately get this.

So I picked-up this album and I'll admit, I was at least in-part influenced by two glowing reviews on this site. So, yeah, it's good. It's totally listenable and the instrumentation is really pretty nice. Still, it doesn't seem, to me at least, to be very original. I suppose I will periodically put it into the CD player over the next few weeks but I can't say I'm "taken" by it. Well, that's my 2 cents...

I have to admit that I was disappointed by this album. After 4 astounding EPs, Beat's N Bobs comes off as a watered-down: 2 tracks come directly from other EPs and at least 2 or 3 tracks are remakes (including "Time...", a vastly inferior downtempo version of "As Time Flies"). The new material helps balance out the album ("Baby C'Mon" is great, as is "To Hard, Try & Find"), but I had really hoped for better.

There is a restaurant in San Francisco, California, that plays the most divine music. I asked the DJ if he could tell me the name(s) of the artists and/or the genre of music he was playing, but all he could tell me was that the current song playing was Aqua Bassino. Can anyone give me some recommendations for artists whose music is akin to Aqua's? Also, what type of music would Aqua be listed under, e.g., house, dance, jazz, etc.? Thank you to all who respond.

One of the best downtempo/jazzy albuns of the last years.
BUY IT!