Eclectica
CD SD 130-2
DLP SD 130-1
Release date: 15.11.2004
After two great albums on munich’s Compost
Rec. (“Elysian Fields” in 2000,
“Minuit” in 2002) and the Soundtrack
for “Viktor Vogel - Commercial Man”
(2001, Columbia Pictures) Minus 8’s brandnew
(5th) album „Eclectica“ is ready
to go!
Featuring guest-vocalists Sitta
Föhr (“Daylight”, “Soverato”
& “Montreux”), Sharon Harris
(“Pussycat”, “Acapulco 60”
& “Capriccio”), New York Rappers
Dread Event (“Hard 2 Survive”
& “Mistaken Identity”), Ras
Charmer (“So Fine”, “Brave&Bold
Dub”), Cali P. (We are One”),
Ras Theo (“Quaylude Slumber”)
and Michael Morris (“Go:Disco”),
the album shows the massive versatility of
Zürich based producer, remixer and dj
Robert Jan Meyer aka Minus 8.
Wheras “Minuit”
was pretty much brasil influenced, “Eclectica”
draws a wider bow from Downbeat to Hip-Hop,
to Disco, to Ragga and back with setting a
high value on the different vocals.
On top, it’s Switzerlands
jazz-legend Kurt Weil playing the vibraphon
on “Soverato”!
The most diversified Minus
8-album so far and definitely one of the highlights
of late 2004!
So now it’s time to let the music play,
or freely adapted from Sitta Föhr in
the opening track……come and take
a ride with me…
