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Artist: Aidan Casserly & Pawel Lopatka
Title: That Man from Berlin
Format: Download Only (MP3 + Lossless)
Label: House Of Analogue
Rated: *****
Aidan Casserly is always keeping himself busy making new music. It could be with his main band Empire State Human, with The Wazp (his new dark synth solo project) or with different collaborations. This time, for the third House Of Analogue release, he made a three tracks digital download single in collaboration with Pawel Lopatka, a Polish-born translator and songwriter who has written the Polish translations of books by Mary Shelley, Paul Theroux, Nick Hornby, David Mitchell, John Boyne, Armistead Maupin, to name few. For "That Man From Berlin", Aidan wrote the music and Pawel, the lyrics. Try to imagine a spy story picturing a foggy club where instead of having Greta Garbo (Mata Hari) or Rita Hayworth (Gilda) we have Aidan (well, try to focus on the vocals and not on other stuff, this time) passionately singing on a jazzy based music that on the main title is mixing a sensual sax melody with a contrabass. "Just This Once" recall me the Sade atmospheres thanks to the sax echoes and to those sparse piano chords. The closing track "Aura", melodically recalls me Ultravox's "The Voice", but Aidan's vocal melody is different. On this one we have only piano and vocals with the add of light synth strings building a dreamy melancholic atmosphere.


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