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Tosca: Suzuki

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Label: G-Stone Records
Released: 2000
Time:
 59:33
Category: Electronica
Producer(s): Richard Dorfmeister, Rupert Huber
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.g-stoned.com
Appears with: Kruder & Dorfmeister
Purchase date: 2000.11.08
Price in €: 14,99



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[1] Pearl In (R.Dorfmeister, R.Huber) - 0:25
[2] Suzuki (R.Dorfmeister, R.Huber) - 6:04
[3] Annanas (R.Dorfmeister, R.Huber) - 6:34
[4] Orozco (R.Dorfmeister, R.Huber) - 5:25
[5] Busenfreund (R.Dorfmeister, R.Huber) - 5:16
[6] Honey (R.Dorfmeister, R.Huber) - 5:57
[7] Boss on the Boat (R.Dorfmeister, R.Huber) - 6:03
[8] John Tomes (R.Dorfmeister, R.Huber) - 5:04
[9] Ocean Beat (R.Dorfmeister, R.Huber) - 4:32
[10] Key (R.Dorfmeister, R.Huber) - 7:00
[11] Doris Dub (R.Dorfmeister, R.Huber) - 4:00
[12] Pearl Off (R.Dorfmeister, R.Huber) - 3:13

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Richard Dorfmeister - All Instruments
Rupert Huber - All Instruments

Anna Clementi - Vocals
Mike Daliot - Voclas

Bo Kondren - Mastering
Markus Rössler - Photography

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TOSCA is the project of Rupert Huber and Richard Dorfmeister. Their second long player, "Suzuki", which may be interpreted as a tribute to Shunryu Suzuki, the Zen meditation master, is being released. Even so, you don’t have to be on a ritualistic trip to appreciate it. Like a peaceful storm, the music rotates around an immutable centre: beats that are both ingenious and muscular, the timbre of a sparkling bath tub, fluttering percussion, blues splitter sweet meats - a fusion of digital and analog inputs. Naturally, it’s not a conventional Trip-Hop archive. A deep understanding of the music’s Afro-American roots prevails with TOSCA. Music for the soul of stressed cities. As the title "Suzuki" makes clear, this isn’t an esoteric flight, but rather a full-frontal examination of everyday life, an industrialization of ambient concepts. Here, the environs means a redefinition of your own biotopes. You are with TOSCA and here you are safe.

Slow funk food !!

www.studio-k7.com



Tosca's second album Suzuki takes a lighter, airier approach to the trip-hop terrain that Opera explored. The spare, shimmering title track's delicate synth textures, minimal beats, mellow rhythms, and breathy vocal samples set the tone for the rest of the album's laid-back tracks. Though "Orozco," "Bass on the Boat," and "Ocean Beat" are more immediate variations on Tosca's relaxed sound, for the most part, Suzuki offers a locked groove of hypnotic, deeply chilled-out epics.

Heather Phares -  All-Music Guide



Tosca heißen mit bürgerlichem Namen Richard Dorfmeister und Rupert Huber und haben mit "Chocolate Elvis", "Fuck Dub" und dem Album Opera Meilensteine in der Geschichte der gerauchten Beats hinterlassen. Sie kommen aus Wien und widmen ihr neuestes Werk dem Meister der Zen-Meditation, Shunryu Suzuki. So viel zum offiziellen, informativen Teil. Etwas tiefer muss man eintauchen, um die Gelassenheit und den Raum für einzelne Beats und Sounds zu erfahren. Tropfen in der Badewanne paaren sich mit Beats, meist unter 100 bpm, die zwar wohlbekannt, aber auch sehr bewährt sind. "Entspannung für gestresste Großstädter", verspricht die Gebrauchsanweisung der Promotion-Agentur. Besser noch: Jeder nimmt für sich das Angenehmste aus der Lehre der Zen-Meditation, schaltet komplett ab und lässt Suzuki dazu endlos rotieren. Hilft garantiert!

Michael Rütten - Amazon.de



In Wien weiß man doch noch immer besser als anderswo, wie man Downbeat ohne Kitsch definiert und schläfrige Tiefgründigkeit erzeugt, ohne einschläfernd zu sein. Die Stadt ist tatsächlich so langsam wie ihr Klischee, und ihre düsteren Gäßchen, ihre barocke Schwülstigkeit und ihre Kaffeehaus-Kultur inklusive relaxtem Schmäh lassen wohl auch nichts anderes zu. Rupert Huber und Richard Dorfmeister kennen sich bereits aus ihrer Schulzeit - doch während Huber experimentellere Wege in der Klangforschung einschlug, tat sich Dorfmeister mit Peter Kruder zusammen und stieg zu den ungeahnten Höhen eines Downbeat- und Remix-Superstars auf. Die beiden liefen sich erst 1994 wieder über den Weg und hoben Tosca aus der Taufe. Bald darauf legten sie ihre Debütmaxi 'Chocolate Elvis' vor, von der es erst kürzlich eine Sammlung ganz wunderbarer Remixe von u. a. Rockers Hi-Fi und Boozoo Bajou zu erstehen gab. Nach der zweiten, nicht minder erfolgreichen Veröffentlichung 'Fuck Dub' sowie dem Debütalbum 'Opera' nun ist 'Suzuki' bereits der zweite Langspieler der beiden. Der Name versteht sich als Tribut an den Zen-Meister Shunryu Suzuki - und wie ein aufgeräumter, fokussierter Zen-Garten verbreitet sie Ruhe und Entspannung, Wohlgefühl und Konzentration. Auf wohligen Dub-Fundamenten fußend, hallen feine Echos, schwelgen organische Pianos und dengeln auch mal Brazil-Glöckchen, während Frauenstimmen schmachten und leiden. Edler, deeper, gehaltvoller und zurückgelehnter als andere, ohne zu schmusig zu sein. Musik, die alle anderen Musiken dieser Welt tief inhaliert zu haben scheint.

Florian Sievers / Intro - Musik & so
www.intro.de



More moody musical fairytales from Richard Dorfmeister, this time with Rupert Huber under the guise of Tosca. Suzuki is--like his releases with Kruder and Dorfmeister--a sublime work that manipulates emotions through sound. Soft and sweet, subtle and supple, Tosca's tracks drift, sifting from one dream to the next. Though they patch hip-hop, jazz, ambient, and techno together, you can't hear where one begins and the other ends. "Annanas" pairs sneaky, squeaky scratching with a lusty female vocal and bossa-nova-inspired hip-hop breaks, while "Orozco" loops a playful riff, running it through reverbs and filters, creating something like pure bliss for the ears.

Tricia Romano - Amazon.com



I had just gotten Tosca's first album when their new album Suzuki hit the streets. I liked "Opera" so much that I bought Suzuki right away. Having just picked up the disc, I was stuck in traffic getting pretty riled by my fellow Charlotteans, so I slipped Suzuki out of its cellophane and into my CD player.

After a fairly unnecessary 25 second opening ("Pearl In"), some fluttery guitars started off on the second and title track; then Anna Clementi's sexy scat singing kicked in followed by a wicked bass line. I was instantly hooked, and love for my neighbors flooded back to me. Well, pretty much.

If you like the suave sounds of Austrian duo Kruder & Dorfmeister, you'll probably like Tosca, too, because Dorfmeister actually comprises half of the band. Rupert Huber is the other half. (Tosca's albums are on the STUD!O K7 label; the same one K&D show up on.) Both bands produce sophisticated, elegant comedown music in a sort of trip-hop/downbeat/electronic vein.

As far as sophomore efforts go, Suzuki doesn't have quite the same breadth or grit that "Opera" has. Nor does it sample so freely nor so amusingly, though it does have its own subtle collection of creaks and whispers. There's no F-k Dub or Chocolate Elvis here either. But, hey, it's a different disk.

What Suzuki does have is grooves aplenty and lots of that breathy scat singing by Clementi. While the sexily insouciant "Suzuki" is the standout track for me where her singing is concerned, Clementi's voice does provide a lovely thread throughout the album-on tracks like "Annanas," "Orozco," and "Honey." That last track is a saucy little number, too-probably deserving of its own cult following.

Mike Daliot takes over the scat on "Boss on the Boat," which for my money is one of the cooler song titles I've stumbled across lately. But I'm easily amused. "Doris Dub" is a dreamy four-minute opus that could've gone on for twice as long, I got so lost in it. The album ends with "Pearl Off," which brings us sonically back to the first track.

Overall, Suzuki lacks the color of Opera, but it's a catchier, more consistent, more refined effort. It's also a helluva cruising disc. Those terry cloth bathrobes on the cover really tell you all you need to know.

Robert Stribley



Richard Dorfmeister is best known for revolutionizing the acid jazz/trip-hop scene through his work with Peter Kruder. But the attention surrounding the team's trend-setting productions has also heightened the profile of the duo's individual musical ventures. Tosca is Dorfmeister's answer to Kruder's Peace Orchestra, and Suzuki, Dorf's second full-length effort with producer Rupert Huber under the Tosca moniker, radiates with the same suave musical sensibilities and sexy downbeat vibes that fans have come to expect from the Viennese chill-out innovators. Combining stony dub echoes with gentle melodies and funk undercurrents, Suzuki is a smoldering instrumental venture that will keep K&D fans at bay until the pair's production hiatus comes to a close.

M. Tye Comer: CMJ New Music Report Issue: 653 - Feb 14, 2000
 

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