Take My Breath Away

Gui Boratto | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 3, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Kompakt Germany
• ASIN: B001RIGCN8
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,859 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #21 in Music > Latin Music > Urban > Latin Electronica

Editorial Reviews

Two years have passed and much has changed since Gui Boratto shot to prominence with his Kompakt debut 'Chromophobia'. A much needed spot of colour amidst the minimal milieu, Gui's mixture of fierce production skills and a blissful pop sensibility have characterized his trajectory to the techno heavyweight before us today.?Amidst a rigorous touring schedule and busy family life arises 'Take My Breath Away', Gui's eagerly anticipated sophomore album. Laced with subtle critique and double-entendre, Gui's philosophical approach is adept at packaging the rough, smooth, bitter and sweet into a number of emotive and ultimately optimistic productions.?The title track is a fitting example. Equally a statement of concern and call for solidarity, 'Take My Breath Away' conveys a sense of scale and immediacy with soaring melodic progressions and pounding bass. Epic and densely constructed, clattering metallic tones escalate to a howling climax before a deep pulsed drive to close.?Recent single 'Atomic Soda' rasps with gritty hovering synth and complex rhythms, phase transitioning into a monolithic bass stomp with staccato percussive modulation that was built to move. The bit crushed melodies of 'Colors' enters shimmering dream pop territory, while 'Opus 17' marks Gui's 17th album track, continuing the lineage of his debut with a mixture of droning Cologne, shuffling IDM beats and kaleidoscopic synth textures.?'No Turning Back' jars with uneasy cyclical rhythms, developing a tension that breaks with a chorus as grandiose as it is energetic. Gui's wife Luciana Villanova provides the Midas touch yet again, contributing a stirring vocal reminiscent of her contribution to Gui's anthemic 'A Beautiful Life'.?More understated than it's predecessor, 'Azzura' swings with delicate harmonic shifts, while 'Les Enfants' features a tripped out organ melody and live drum break to continue the brief descent in pace.?'Ballroom' is strictly club material, probing with stabbed synth and the hardest kick on the record. Taken deep and destabilized with uneasy melodic tones, it provides a fitting introduction to closer 'Eggplant'. Patiently progressing from ascendant synth chords to a tightly wound concoction of frenetic percussion and dissonant harmonic elements, 'Eggplant' gathers enough momentum to make a vegetable move.? --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away, September 30, 2011

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This review is from: Take My Breath Away (Audio CD)

TAKE MY BREATH AWAY suggests something of a sophomore slump for Gui Boratto, who can still turn out pumpers as with his first album, but not quite with the same magic. The title track gets things off on the right foot, and "Atomic Soda" has a nice burble that won't leave you burping, even as it takes an almost martial tack. The pleasant "Colors" takes the BPMs down for a bit, but it's all a run-up to the obvious hit of the album, "No Turning Back." Much like "Beautiful Life," "No Turning Back" strikes that perfect balance of pop and techno, with a Peter Hook-like bass for good measure ("Besides" will carry the New Order comparison even further). The rest of the album, however... Okay, it's not bad. "Azurra" is funky enough, but the last four tracks in particular seem to go nowhere fast. Both "Ballroom" and "Eggplant," in particular, drag on, and are essentially interchangeable. Even the piano ending of the delicate "Godet" seems a few notes too many. It's not like Boratto to be dull, but there you have it.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Warning: Vinyl doesn't include all songs, January 23, 2010

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CAS "sulli310" (Lansing, MI USA) - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Take My Breath Away [Vinyl] (Vinyl)

Just a heads up:

Vinyl includes:
A: Take My Breath Away
B1: Ballroom
B2: Colors
C: No Turning Back
D1: Eggplant
D2: Godet

(Atomic Soda, Opus 17, Azurra, Les Enfants, Besides are missing from the vinyl)

However, with the purchase of a vinyl you also get a CD that contains all of the 11 tracks on this truly amazing album.