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buy here: https://aliftree.bandcamp.com/album/clockwork

Release date: 6 February 2009
Cat.-No.: CPT 304-2/-3
Format: CD / digital

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”.

Compost Records: https://compost-rec.com/