Modesty Dept: Shades of Solitude
The Modesty Department's debut album is like a soundtrack to an imaginary movie, full of images and emotions spanning the gap from melancholy to mischief. Songwriter Jonas Persson starts out in electronica and continues on a voyage of discovery through jazz and pop from the 1960s to the present, inspired by everything from Kraftwerk to Brian Wilson and Air.
The fragile melodies are driven alternately by lo-fi vocoders and beautiful female voices, and the background bubbles with everything from mellotrons and old synthesizers to languishing strings and backward flutes. All this in order "not to make it too easy for the listener," according to Jonas Persson. Concentration is vital, in other words.
Jonas Persson is a 28-year-old songwriter and producer from Skellefteå, Sweden, who was a founding member of the Lounge/Nu Jazz-project Funkservice International. "Shades of Solitude" is his first solo release, an apt title for this first foray out on his own.
- Catalogue #: wax003
- Release date: 2005-10-26
- Format: CD
- Status: available
PREVIEWS (lo-fi mp3):
- Motion Magic
- Amid The Crowds Slow Passing
- Afternoon Nostalgia
- Shades of Solitude
- Nothing Without You
- While City Awakes
- Silent Panic
- The Beautiful End
- Backward Magic
Written & produced by Modesty Dept.
Vocals by Evelina Hägglund & Magnus Löfstedt. Flute & choirs by Olle Thoors.
Guitar by Lars "Tjalle" Lidgren. Mixed & mastered by Modesty Dept at the Brown Room.
P+© 2005 - A Wax of Sweden release.
