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Cover New Fusion

"ANIMAL FASHION" (2005)

The album comprised several hits familiar to the “Alissid Jazz” concert visitors in 2002-2004, which have never been recorded before. For instance “The Bat” (“Thisa Bata” version) or “Acid River”. All these things are presented in a suddenly unusual arrangement.

The album also included the “Condrashkin’ Blues” theme, undeservingly forgotten by Aliss at some point and then brought back with the use of contemporary technologies.

The album is also based on such fresh compositions as “Snakes”, which Aliss calls “one of the best creations of the recent time”. The main line of this play is an Indian raga (Part I) growing in Part II into a peculiar hindoo drum’n’base thanks to 15/8 drum beat and the bass guitar imitating the sounds of the Indian percussion instrument – “tabla”. Other new compositions also represent peculiar fusions of contemporary rhythm and various ethnic tunes…

Aliss, the project leader and founder:

“…I think I am a researcher in music – from destroying the diatonic and jazz harmonization habitual to a European listener”. I build my own laws but I try not to overcomplexify the music perception. Where my research ends is in discovery of states and conditions – spiritual, emotional and physical – of the player, as well as of the listener.

…I am also concerned with symbolization of each play: for example, the theme of the “Factory of Toys” is the rustle around us and our toys – cars, children, cats and dogs…

“Thisa Bata” is not about the bats as such but about the people who do not sleep at nights. The strange name of this play (play version) emerged from the foreign (oriental) phonetic modification of the English “The Bat”. This is also to express the fusion of both the play and music styles.

“Mouse’s Life” – a life of a mouse sometimes (for some – constantly) led by many of us, including me.

…I am just a mirror that reflects everything it sees and feels…”

Contents:
  1. Thisa Bata
  2. Snakes | India’s drum&bass
  3. Lion Druming
  4. FackTory of Toys
  5. Dreams Hunting
  6. Acid River
  7. Stone Dance | BaraBass
  8. Animal Fashion Show
  9. DJRidoo Pray | didgeridoo
  10. Elephant Funk
  11. MurMau | Cat Dreams
  12. Tager Child
  13. Kondrashkin Blues
  14. Mouse Life