Artist: Malia & Boris Blank(Yello)
Title Of Album: Convergence
Year Of Release: 2014
Label (Catalog#) : Universal Music 374 186-2
Country:: UK/Swiss
Genre: Electronic, Nu Jazz, Neo-Soul
Quality: FLAC (image+cue,log)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 45:06
Full Size: 312Mb(+3%)(covers)

The king in Yello is back for his first collaboration in twenty-two years with some of the most
stirring electro-jazz you’ll find outside of a Twin Peaks soundtrack. Yello has always been
presented from a very male-dominated perspective, which is not exactly a surprise. The world of
Dieter Meier and Boris Blank has long been known for the pitched-down vocal stylings of their
’81 cut “Oh Yeah“, an aural slice of minimalistic low-end that works just as well in a grind-heavy
disco as it does to soundtrack a principal’s defeat. But it’s necessary to separate Blank’s work
with Yello from this—his first collaborative work since the 1992 Billy McKenzie album
Outernational. Though the instrumentals on Convergence bear many trademarks of the lighter
sides of, for instance, 2009′s Touch Yello, Malawian singer Malia lends them an entirely
different vibe than Meier’s uniquely smokey, melancholic baritone.

Of course, it just wouldn’t be a Blank canvas if the setting wasn’t drenched in the aura of
after-hours jazz lounge of yesterday, and once again he paints a masterpiece of thickly-coated
synthesized strings and ghostly percussion. The production values are, predictably, top-notch; if
Blank has learned anything in his decades of music-making, it’s how to create
atmosphere—and there’s plenty to spare on Convergence. There’s an out-of-time quality to the
eleven tracks here, the same mysterious sort of implacable elegance one might find in the
heavenly bodies that emerges from the opening sway of “Celestial Echo”and into “Embraceable
Moon”‘s fragile skitteriness. It’s easy to see why the two artists felt like a collaboration would be
a good fit. Malia’s vocals have just enough roughness to wear Blank’s compositions comfortably
and confidently, whether she’s wrenching the heart on “Turner’s Ship“, themed around Joseph
Mallord William Turner’s famed “The Slave Ship”, or healing it with the supernatural sultriness
of “Touching Ghosts”. by Shannon Glass

Tracks:
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01. Celestial Echo (4:08)
02. Embraceable Moon (4:11)
03. I Feel It Like You (3:42)
04. Touching Ghosts (3:21)
05. Claire Cadillac (3:12)
06. Raising Venus (4:40)
07. Fever (3:28)
08. Smouldering Ashes (3:58)
09. Magnetic Lies (4:01)
10. Tears Run Dry (3:41)
11. Turner's Ship (6:43)

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