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In their latest work, Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier again reveal their talent for transforming the immense sound available from todays electronic production possibilities into pure, ethereal lightness. In that sense, Booka Shade and Fred Astaire arent all that different. They don't simply dance. They prance. A few summer days in Manchester finally brought light to the end of the tunnel. Booka Shade set up house in the citys acclaimed EVE Studios, a residential vintage recording studio where musicians can live and work with rare, old-school recording equipment around the clock. That moment of clarity in Manchester, when everything suddenly fell into place, has now been immortalised in their new album title. And Eve remains true to the principle that has underpinned this duos work from their first musical experiments right up to today: Booka Shade perform with four hands. Thats it. Two hands on the drums and two hands on the keyboards have to do the job for every track in the studio and on stage. The only exception is when they are joined by special guests, this time including such luminaries as Fritz Helder (Azari & III), as well as Groove Armadas Andy Cato blasting his trombone in a vast echo chamber while Fritz Kalkbrenner heralds the next departure singing the hymnal lines, Weve burned the bridges on our way. Booka Shade have a long history of building new bridges. Those bridges connect their rich past as producers with the glorious present, from Berlins Maifeld to Jesolo on the Mediterranean and onwards to the Far East. Booka Shade are underway again and Eve is like a great voyage, an album imploring listeners to get moving, to begin dreaming and to start prancing.