Clockwork, by Alif Tree

Clockwork

by Alif Tree

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1.	Aurevoir 06:08	buy track
2.	Way Down South 04:00	buy track
3.	Never Be The Same 04:41	buy track
4.	Reality 04:20	buy track
5.	Mai 03:55	buy track
6.	Que Tu 05:29	buy track
7.	Not Gonna Waste My Time 04:23	buy track
8.	Without Her(th) 04:25	buy track
9.	Timestretched 04:40	buy track
10.	Dead Flowerz 27:52	buy track

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The perfect background to your daily pleasures (...) Melody-filled, ethereal and very rich; it's a soundtrack to an imaginary adventure with romance, drama, chases and a happy ending piped in from the 60s.

Surely you've heard of him before. If not - it's high time! Call him an electronic music alchemist, know him as a french DJ and cook or just love him for sharing his outstanding musical talent with us. After his last release "French Cuisine" in 2006 we're proud to present Alif Tree's second album "Clockwork" on Compost Records! Surprise guest on "Clockwork" is Memphis legend Tony Joe White.

Remember: "French Cuisine" went (after the nomination) to the top ten albums in Gilles Peterson's Worldwide (BBC) charts of the year 2006. And remember the amazing and successful Moodymann remix of "Forgotten Places".

As a musician (guitar, voice, keyboards, percussion...), Alif is a fervent defender of acoustic sounds, from philharmonic music to pop via jazz and world music. A sound-engineer and producer skilled in digital techniques, he has been navigating through the universe of recording-studios, sound-stages and television, as much as record-labels, for the past seventeen years. The voyager, who tele-transported himself to Normandy a few years ago, has finally settled down in Marseille and installed his own studio at the end of 1999.

In February 2000 he signed with M10 for "The Observatory", a first album that scrutinized, in the distance, the possible future of electronic music. In the press, critics welcomed this clairvoyant point of view with interest. "Between pop melancholy, West Coast groove and ethnic reflections, the first album from Alif Tree inscribes itself in the composite logic of tomorrow's downbeat: pop fragrances, science-fiction nuggets, jazz, exotic savours, this first Alif Tree album does without glutamate", wrote Yann Quélennec in the columns of "Coda".

Having crossed over into the third millennium, Alif signed with Universal Music Jazz and has come out with "Spaced", an opus that points, like E.T.'s finger, to visions perceived from his observatory. Sailing the seven seas of space in zero gravity, between trip-hop under classical influence, instrumental hip-hop and jazzy electronica, these ten tracks go head-to-head against the current trends, which would have all down-tempo electro composers produce soundtracks for imaginary movies.

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released February 6, 2009

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