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Tosca are an Austrian music group consisting of Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber. This is Dorfmeister’s second such project.
Dehli9 is their third studio album, released in 2003. Disc 1 contains relatively straightforward downtempo, while Disc 2 contains sparse, mostly piano music. The liner notes state “CD2 based on ’12 easy to play piano pieces’ by Rupert Huber.”
When Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber began making music together, Indian music was one of their influences, and they called themselves Dehli9. Dehli is a common alternative Hindustani pronunciation for Delhi.
As always, the vocal contributions don’t live up to Tosca’s compositions yet singer Ana Clementi’s voice once again fuses flawlessly with the duo’s beats on “Oscar” and the quirky “Me & Yoko Ono.” Though the album reprises Tosca’s penchant for slow, murky grooves and plenty of dub delay, Dorfmeister and Huber trade in samples for mostly live instrumentation and offset their expected brand of downtempo with more danceable nuggets like the housey “Gute Laune” and “Sperl.” But the overall vibe is still decidedly stay-at-home: a synthetic-sounding choir cushions a bundle of prickly rhythms, silky strings and acoustic guitar on “Dave Dudley” while the delicate piano of the sultry, bass-driven “Mango di Bango” hints at the sublime, dubwise piano sessions of disc two. The disc plays out like one long piece with 12 concise movements, each taking you to a new place entirely. The ominous piano melodies of tracks like “slow hell” and “wien in E” are accompanied by voices, laughter and spacey whistles and drones. Like much of the album, the gorgeous “einschlaf” takes off like a revelatory epiphany and drops you somewhere between serene saturation and famine.
Disc 1- “Oscar” (vocals by Anna Clementi)
- “Me & Yoko Ono” (vocals by Anna Clementi)
- “Gute Laune” (vocals by Tweed)
- “Mango di Bango”
- “Wonderful” (vocals by Earl Zinger)
- “Every Day & Every Night” (vocals by Sugar B.)
- “Dave Dudley”
- “Rolf Royce” (vocals by Stephan Graf Hadik Wildner)
- “Sperl”
- “La Vendeuse des Chaussures des Femmes part 1
- “d-moll”
- “einschlaf”
- “wien in E”
- “schwimmer”
- “1504 / 7”
- “slow hell”
- “song”
- “romanze in es”
- “fluß”
- “ping”
- “2504 / 1”
- “piano 1”
Companies, etc.
- Record Company – G-Stone Recordings
- Copyright © – Tosca Productions
- Licensed To – !K7 Records
- Published By – Tosca Music
- Recorded At – G-Stone Studio 2
- Mastered At – Calyx Mastering
- Pressed By – MPO
Credits
- Design, Design Concept – Sarah Littasy
- Mastered By – Bo Kondren
- Photography By – Markus Rössle
- Written-By, Producer – Richard Dorfmeister, Rupert Huber
Notes
Released: 2003
Recorded at: G-stone studio 2. Vienna. Mastered by Bo Kondren at Calyx. Berlin.
Genre: Electronica, downtempo, ambient
Length: 1:45:47
Label – G-Stone Recordings, Studio !K7
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