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A record Mocky really needed to make. In these dark times, this album is like a night light. (He) has turned to haunting us with melodies that will quickly become your companions and will doubtless wander in step with you as you go about your days. Mocky lives in his own country of sound. It's a little place called Saskamodie.
JAMIE LIDELL
"The bears and foxes and crows in Aesop's Fables tell us stories about people. Mocky's doing something with wind and wood and hands that does the same thing.... acoustic instruments breaking music back down to the storytelling elements. His voice is a little bell, the narrator to a fable that makes the childlike, long forgotten gong in your chest wake right back up."
FEIST
"Jazz" is a naughty word nowadays, it evokes musicians who indulge themselves in a virtuosity contest. Fortunately, Saskamodie isn't a jazz album. It's more like an imaginary soundtrack. Mocky shows us what this naughty word should mean, in a parallel and mystical universe.
GONZALES (from Magic Magazine, France)
加拿大音樂奇才Mocky在Crammed Disc出版首張專輯,盡顯他音樂上的全方位才華與多元化音樂品味,別緻的爵士與騷靈,既復古又新奇,還找來好友Taylor Savvy, Gonzales,Jamie Lidell,與Feist 等友情客串幫忙, 獲Pitchfork 8分高評！
Mocky has a reputation for suprising people with his music. His electro/hip hop/soul releases to date, wildly entertaining live shows and outstanding production & arrangement work (for Jamie Lidell, Feist, Gonzales, Nikka Costa and Jane Birkin) have cast him as an irreverent, chameleon-like cult figure in leftfield music - not to mention a watermark of quality. Yet even for him, Mocky's newest album is a brave step into unchartered waters, the sound of a musician exploring where his talent can take him with rare confidence and authority.
"Saskamodie" is Mocky's first release for Crammed Discs. He is listed as playing drums, bass, rhodes, piano, guitar, percussion, bells, recorder, vocals, whistle, organ and toys as well as writing string arrangements. Taylor Savvy, Gonzales, Jamie Lidell, and Feist contribute additional instrumental and backing vocal performances that make this record sound more like a live performance than a studio creation.
Named after a song he made up when he was seven using imaginary words, "Saskamodie" is a new future/retro classic: a return to pure musical expression by a cutting edge artist who is no longer bound by the electronic music scene. At different points you'll hear a vintage soundtrack suite, a debonair jazz record (minus the solos) or a golden era '60s soul ballad recording... yet, as if all these charming stylistic sorties weren't loveable enough, cut "Saskamodie" through the middle and you'll find that sweet, inescapably infectious melody is the lifeblood trickling through its core.
Teaming up with Renaud Letang in a vintage soundtrack studio in Paris previously inhabited by the likes of Nina Simone and Serge Gainsbourg, Mocky let his imagination run wild and the results are astounding! Watch out for Mocky’s Saskamodie tour across Europe in 2009.
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