We've Been Here Before

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Cat No: BHCD172

Release Date: 12 October 2018

Label: Black Hole Recordings

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8715197017220

Genres: Dance Trance

Description
To introduce 'We've Been Here Before' as Lowland's first 'regular' album would apply serious pressure to that word. It is however the first Finland's Petri Alanko has recorded with a broader remit than his conceptually driven and now widely revered 'Classic Trancelations' series.Nonetheless stepping into 'We've Been Here Before' with a 'classic trance album' mind-set might set you off on the wrong foot, as its title proves somewhat ironic. This is a track collection that ventures distinctly into lesser-charted regions, employing techniques, arrangements and sequences that have been honed down through Petri's production years.One of the greatest liberations and joys in Lowland's music making (as the man himselfexplains) is, well, just that. "Music itself wants to be free. So I never felt any pressures ofurgencies with this album. I always thought it'd be best for 'We've Been Here Before' to comenaturally, without pushing or forcing."Master of the understatement, it's a collection that has - in one form or other - been in processfor many a year. On the album's instrumental side, numbers like 'Blackbird', 'Stains' and its titletrack quickly start pushing that club nature to the fore. Each in their own right forceful, dynamic &purposeful, their darker ethers and storm-approaching drums summon fantastical, not to mentiondystopian imagery.'Fusions' and the album's spear-tip single 'The Other Side' (of which DJ Mag said, in their 8/10review, "bristled with provocation, emotion and front") usher male voices onto the album. On thefemale vocal side meanwhile, MARiANNA strikes early with the brilliantly wrought and dramaseized'Infinite Loudness'. It is however the evocatively Nordic tones of Ylona that casts the mostprominent of silhouettes across 'We've Been Here Before'. Bringing voice and song to no lessthan 5 of its 13-strong contingent, she displays absolute range and flexibility. Whether its the quiet storm of 'Each Other', the 80s synthpop channelling 'Machines Have Hearts', neo-balladslike 'For
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