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Paul Hardcastle: Paul Hardcastle VI

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Label: Trippin 'N' Rhythm Records
Released: 2011.05.23
Time:
 68:54
Category: Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Cool Jazz
Producer(s): Paul Hardcastle
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.paulhardcastle.com
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Purchase date: 2020
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Rainforest/What's Going On (P.Hardcastle) - 5:14
[2] Night Time Hustle (P.Hardcastle) - 4:42
[3] 1000 Miles From Nowhere (P.Hardcastle/B.Biggins) - 6:13
[4] Neon Adventure (P.Hardcastle) - 6:22
[5] Lost For Words (P.Hardcastle) - 5:26
[6] DC Boogie (P.Hardcastle) - 6:26
[7] Rainforest/What's Going On (Chill Mix) (P.Hardcastle) - 4:21
[8] Easy Come Easy Go (P.Hardcastle) - 3:32
[9] Let This Love Begin (P.Hardcastle) - 4:59
[10] Blew My Mind Ibiza Mix (P.Hardcastle) - 6:22
[11] Into The Blue (P.Hardcastle) - 5:24
[12] 1000 Miles from Nowhere [Instrumental] (P.Hardcastle) - 5:25
[13] Forest Echoes [The Conclusion] (P.Hardcastle) - 4:30

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Paul Hardcastle - Keyboards, Producer

Beki Biggins - Voclas on [3]
Grace Fuller - Liner Notes

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CD 2011 Trippin 'N' Rhythm Records – TNR48



Continuing to alternate between his various different guises, Hardcastle 6 is the third album in as many years from jazz-funk pioneer Paul Hardcastle, following 2009's regular solo effort, Zero One, and 2010's sixth installment of the Jazzmasters series. Like the latter, these 13 tracks focus on a low-key urban jazz-pop sound equally suited to the chillout lounges of Ibiza and the sophisticated cocktail bars of London and New York. "Neon Adventure" blends Way Out West-esque electronica with soothing pan pipes, warm lush synths, and night-air sound effects, "Let This Love Begin" is a seductive slice of chilled-out quiet storm reminiscent of Sade's sophisticated '80s output, and "Into the Blue" is a Incognito-esque quasi-jazz number packed with lolloping glockenspiels and skittering Balearic beats, all of which are underpinned by numerous saxophone solos from Rock Hendricks. While these solos undoubtedly lend a dreamy air to the likes of the squelchy "Superstition"-inspired funk of "Night Time Hustle" and the new age-tinged "Blew My Mind Ibiza Mix" (an instrumental of the track that previously appeared on 2008's Hardcastle 5), they also occasionally become a little overbearing, as on the meandering Kenny G-esque "Lost for Words," the Kool & the Gang-sampling "DC Boogie," which sounds like Hardcastle just pressed the demo button on his miniature keyboard, and the schmaltzy "Easy Come Easy Go," which could have been the theme tune to a cheesy early-'90s family sitcom. The album is much stronger when it allows other instruments to come to the forefront, such as the fluttering flutes, twinkling xylophones, and old-skool hip-hop beats on an inspired mash-up of his 1984 single "Rainforest" and Marvin Gaye's soul classic "What's Going On" (also featured here in a Chill Mix) and the lush, warm synths of the "O Euchari"-sampling dream pop of "1000 Miles from Nowhere." Hardcastle 6 may drift into improvised self-indulgence at times, but like his other forays into smooth jazz, it's an accomplished easy listening mood piece that cleverly manages to straddle the line between Balearic chillout and dinner party background music.

Jon O'Brien - All Music Guide



With millions of records sold worldwide over the last few decades, Master class producer/composer Paul Hardcastle has touched generations with his sexy,
syncopated gold, spinning musical yarns that continue to move his rabid and burgeoning fan base at its core.

The Trippin 'N Rhythm release of his latest offering Hardcastle VI, builds upon the rhythmic/dance foundation that established Hardcastle as the pre-eminent force in composing pulsating soulful sides that transcended race and genre.The early ground swell has already begun at radio with the multi-format leak of the lead single a brilliant mash-up of two period classics, Hardcastle's , 'Rainforest' and Marvin Gaye s What's Going On, an intoxicating blend of Hardcastle s club beats providing perfect backdrop to Gaye s thought provoking musical question, bringing both new life. Early
indications signal another multi-format smash mixed and masterminded by his musical genius. With supporting sides like 'DC Boogie', Night Time Hustle and 'Into The Blue', Hardcastle's signature rhythms reign throughout. With a nod to the past and his sights set firmly on the future 'VI' is certain to fan the flames already burning in his base and could once again obliterate the lines between genres taking his music again to heights he established early in the 80s with sales in excess of 4 million albums.

Amazon.com



Presenting Paul Hardcastle's biography or discography would be like carrying coals to New Castle. Everybody knows this famous musician and his music.

One of his tremendous hits is Rainforest, reaching #1 on the 12" sales chart in the USA in 1984. A first highlight of his terrific sense for melody and rhythm. Decades later Hardcastle revisits this classic theme with Rainforest/What's Going On on his new album Paul Hardcastle VI (2011). The ingenious combining of Rainforest with Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, a critical song about the ghetto youth, gives this song a new direction, an anti-war declaration.

With Night Time Hustle Hardcastle salutes to the music of Down To The Bone. The tune features Paul Hardcastle on sax in an outstanding role. Inspired by the island world of the Maldives Hardcastle composed 1000 Miles From Nowhere featuring sultry singer Becki Biggins. Becki has won the 2009 American Billboard Best Smooth Jazz Artist Award with Paul Hardcastle for the album Hardcastle V and is also the featured singer on his album Jazzmasters VI.

Neon Adventure conjures up a breath of exotic woodwinds, electronic and sax. The hypnotic song allows saxophonist Rock Hendricks enough space for free improvisation. The slow paced Lost For Words presents the eye-catching singer Biggins for the second time in a sensory experience.

"Get Down, Get Down!" DC Boogie evokes the dance floor time of the '70's. Becki Biggins and Rock Hendricks kick the groove. A chill mix of Rainforest/What's Going On adds a spherical note to the album.

Appealing melodies like Easy Come Easy Go keep up the good mood. Smooth to the point. With the love ballade Let This Love Begin Becki Biggins returns to the root of emotion. A softy song underlined with furry sax and Hardcastle's omnipresent beat.

Blew My Mind Ibiza Mix has that bumping vibration, excelled by Rock Hendricks' sax to the max. If you get lost in sounds like Into The Blue, don't worry, you are not alone! More romantic stream with the instrumental version of 1000 Miles From Nowhere. Becki Biggins' divine vocals bathes in a pool of spherical sounds. And if you cannot get enough from the Rainforest theme, Paul Hardcastle offers at the end of the album his Forest Echoes (The Conclusion).

Never change a winning team. Paul Hardcastle keeps his style in flow and he is stunning perfect in doing the Hardcastle.

Hans-Bernd Hülsman - smooth-jazz.de
 

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