Jigsaw Pieces [Import]

Timewriter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 20, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Under Cover Music
• ASIN: B00008LM5G
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #778,504 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Travelogue

2. Here Comes the Sun

3. Words

4. Almost Lost (On a Deep Train Tonight)

5. Jesus

6. Photographic Life

7. On a Day Like This

8. Belief

9. Sunset Walkin'

10. Someone to Hold Me

11. Tender Wind on a Summernight

12. Deliver Me

13. Skywritings

14. Sensual Pieces

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Jean F. Cochois, a.k.a. Timewriter, has been involved with music since he began lessons at age 10. Both his classical training and European background figure prominently in this collection's sound. Rhythm, melody, tempo, instrumentation, texture, and contrast are all effectively explored over the disc's 15 tracks. Each cut can be taken separately or as a progression through mood, and the tracks on Jigsaw Pieces run the gamut from deep, abstract house ("Almost Lost") to midtempo tech-house ("Sunset Walkin'") to textural studies that combine elements of acid house mixed with Future Sound of London-esque eclecticism ("Deliver Me"). Jigsaw Pieces is the type of recording that will appeal to novices exploring the dance-music genre, because it is not aggressively rhythmic. For this very same reason, die-hard house and techno fans may feel slighted. But for anyone willing to listen, Jigsaw Pieces is not only a satisfying dance record but an excellent couch listen as well. --L.V.R. Odiaga

Product Description

Jean F. Cochois - (the "F" stands for Frank), has been engrossed in music since his early boarding school days and is one of the most outstanding house music producers Germany has to offer. Making an amazing debut with his 1996 album Letters From The Jester, he managed to thrill the music media and a wowed audience right from the start with his unique production style that manages to fuse the virtues of house with the energy of techno, something that would later be categorized as tech house.

Now, the Plastic City label is offering the sophisticated lovers of deep vector house The Timewriter's best-selling album Jigsaw Pieces, originally released to an acclaimed audience in 2000, as a re-release which comes with one new mix. This album is a dazzling collection of "real 21st century soul music, avoid of clichés, overflowing with magic", as Muzik magazine put it, that oozes profound feelings of spirited deepness and boundless beauty. With Jigsaw Pieces, The Timewriter shows his expert skills and profound knowledge of music, and craftily, he interweaves of pieces them together into one big picture which he paints with his favorite colors. Deep, wide, spacious, sensual, luscious, melancholic and at the same time uplifting, this album easily becomes an all-time favorite.

Transcending limits and boundaries with a flawless, timeless elegance, it would be very hard to pigeonhole and label The Timewriter who now has four albums and a string of successful single releases on such acclaimed labels as Plastic City, Mole Listening Pearls, Elektrolux, Wave Music, Driftwood and Fiji as well as remixes for example. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars utterly awesome, November 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Jigsaw Pieces (Audio CD)

Jean Cochois a very gifted house producer. The brilliance of this album is that even with the atmospherics and sometimes ambient sound, Jean still keeps it very DEEP. A really unique style of House music. This music is jazzy and beautifully composed, but still has a touch of groovin' House to shake that behind to the dancefloor!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sensual, Atmospheric, Deep House at it's Best, December 19, 2003

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Pantytec is my god, it should be yours too (Tem) (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jigsaw Pieces (Audio CD)

The first thing I ever heard from the Timewriter was "Sunsetwalkin" on WRCT 88.3 fm, in the fall of 98. Needless to say, I fell in love with the track. "Jigsaw Pieces" to me, not only sums up the distinctive sound of the Timewriter, but the sound of Plastic-City as well; lush, futuristic, and sensual. This is the kind of record you play after coming down from a night at the club, or just wandering around aimlessy at 4 in the morning. The pictures on the album inset, are reminiscent of key moments of life, nostalgic at best. Kind of like Boards of Canada (okay, maybe I'm pushing it.). The music is photographic and displays major maturity from Cochois and PLastic City. If you don't got this album, get it before it goes out of print. If you're a fan of Terry Lee Brown, Jr., Thomas Fehlmann, Thomas Brinkmann, and the more progressive tech sounds, this is one you shouldn't pass up.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great HousE from the German Label "Plastic City", January 26, 2001

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The God "houserat" (Syracuse, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jigsaw Pieces (Audio CD)

This is an excellent album for House fans. Deep, thumping beats keep the sound moving. "Plastic City" seems to have a few good artists like this and one would be wise to check them out. If you like the pounding style of Terry Lee Brown Jr. then you should like this also. Lots of variety and even a little "New Age" sound thrown in.