Purple and Yellow by Finn Peters on Mantella 2011
To put in to words the calibre of musicianship that Finn Peters has brought to the London scene would take far too long. What I will say is I have seen him adapt with passion to whatever genre he is asked to participate in always pushing to take each project to a higher level.
Purple and Yellow his follow on release from ‘Music of The Mind’ delivers a hiphopnotic fusion of futuristic orchestra, retro soundbites and shoulder bouncing lowend. Quite simply if I was to have afternoon tea with Louis and Bebe Baron (sadly no chance of that now) it would certianly get a needle drop to complete the setting.
So enough of my babble why not have a listen and read the sleeve notes provided below.
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Finn Peters makes a welcome return back onto spinning plastic with the wonderful Purple and Yellow 10″. Following on from his Music Of The Mind concept album and limited to just 300 hand stamped, and numbered high grade pressings, the Purple and Yellow 10″ consists of two outstanding tracks, falling somewhere between MF Doom, Raymond Scott’s electronic atmospherics and the Sun Ra Arkestra. It’s fair to say releases of this caliber are few and far between.
Purple starts out with a CBS radio sample, before dropping into an explosive, brass driven, jetson-esque head nodder. It’s like 1950′s space station funk made for big sound systems, seriously impressive! On the flip side Yellow sprinkles on extra star dust, with a deeper and more low-slung groove. Think Can meets Hypnotic Brass Ensemble at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival and you’ll begin to get the idea.
