Kuna Maze
NIGHT SHIFT
(BLACK 2LP)
Tru Thoughts / TRULP440
2x12 Inch LP
chillin / laidback
"Kuna Maze is cooking something special!" - Clash
"Lush jazz chords and summery broken beat groove" - Music Is My Sanctuary
"I'm loving Nikitch & Kuna Maze right now!" - Jamz Supernova (BBC 6Music)
Further support for Kuna Maze: Tarsza, DJ Mag, Erica Mckoy (Worldwide FM), Nubya Garcia, Lefto, Tom Ravenscroft (BBC 6Music) & more
Brussels-based producer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ Kuna Maze, aka Edouard Gilbert, presents his debut album 'Night Shift' (release date: Friday 9th June via Tru Thoughts), a concept record built around the journey into the night. Musically the release evokes the nostalgia of sweaty and smoky jazz clubs but through the prism of modern electronic music. This ethos is projected through Kuna Maze's live band, a melting pot between the jazz and club culture of the then and now. Acting as an anthesis to the sunlight imagery often associated with broken beat, house and jazz music, 'Night Shift' is an ode to the city after dark, a hypnagogic whirlwind into the unknown.
"This album is about the nightlife, the party, the wandering, the weird things that can happen at night, almost supernatural sometimes, the people (weird and not) you can cross, the night shops, the people working at night…" Kuna Maze explains.[info sheet from distr.]