Days To Come (180gm Vinyl)
SIMON GREEN aka BONOBO returns with his third album after his top selling album ‘Dial M For Monkey’. ‘Days To Come’ has the feeling of a classic all over – a big, brooding, emotional and uplifting record that you can dance to, do the dishes to, or sit and really study. This is not just a knob-twiddling producer but a multi-instrumentalist at work, who writes, plays and then manipulates almost every note of music he releases. Bonobo manages to create here a whole new approach to “soulful beats” music: ALICE COLTRANE is as much an inspiration here as DJ SHADOW. Green is joined by BAJKA (pronounced ‘Biker’), a smokey, soulful singer in the vein of BILLIE HOLIDAY, she sounds as at home on the big band soul-jazz of “Between The Lines” as on the more melancholic “Nightlite” and also labelmate and fellow Brightonian FINK.
