CHRIS COCO – ‘Feel Free Live Good’ (The Big Chill Label)

Available globally as limited edition CD Digifile on The Big Chill Label – Distributed by Proper Distribution  (Cat no – Factor 29)
Available globally digitally with an extra exclusive track on iTunes – Digital and Physical Release August 2nd 2010

TRACKS:
1. Butterfly Heart 
2. 8808
3. City Knows Your Name
4.Washing Machine
5.My Beach House
6. Summertime
7. Fizz
8. Riviera
9. Feel Free Live Good
10. Beards of Paradise 
11.Anonymiser
12. Fragile Beauty
l*Artwork by Anthony Burrill – Limited Edition Posters available upon request – Stocked in Collette Paris

“Fresh, quirky, super-Balearic” – Steve Miller (Afterlife)

“The artist album that I’d always hoped you’d make. Something that really reflects your eclectic taste in tunes that you’ve played out over the years.” Ryan Simoneau (Sinning In LA)

Chris Coco has created a wonderful set of tunes on Feel Free Live Good. After multiple adventures with the band City Reverb, DJ’ing for Robbie Williams, and his usual circuit of global DJ dates, compilations, mixes and radio shows Coco took some time out. He spent a few months preparing these musical delights at 99, his studio in Camden, London. With the help of a laptop, a microphone, some very old synths and a bunch of good friends Feel Free Live Good was born.  It was a very relaxed process, friends would pop in and lay down vocals and musical parts for Coco to manipulate and process. 

“It’s amazing what you can get people to do for a bowl of pasta and a couple of glasses of Rioja,” reflects Coco on the laidback but fruitful recording experience.

Though the music ranges from deep house to ambient to chillout to dub it is all held together by an atmospheric, almost romantic feel that is a soul of any Chris Coco production. The title track, Feel Free Live Good, is a little darker but is a mantra for modern, post meltdown living, like a C21 version of the wartime slogan – Keep calm and carry on. The album works on many levels, at a beach side barbecue or in an intimate setting, but there is enough going on for it be a good headphone listen too.

The album is built around Summertime, a simple and effective song that has been drifting out of all the right beachfront bars in Ibiza since last summer. Either side of this are My Beach House, featuring some fine Spanish guitar work from Nick, actually a Belgian who hasn’t been to a beach for five years; and Fizz, a cheeky cocktail bar number with the real sound of champagne corks popping integrated into the rhythm.

The album artwork was created by Anthony Burrill and the No Days Off design studio. Anthony has also made some limited edition screen prints of the slogan.

Other musical highlights include album closer Fragile Beauty, coming on like the soundtrack for a tragic French love story; City Knows Your Name, a dubby workout about lost love in Tokyo featuring Japanese poet Iko; and Beards Of Paradise, a solid slice of dubby space disco.

My Beach House the next single from the album will come out on July 4th featuring the original version plus remixes from Brendon Moeller/Beat Pharmacy and Red Rack Em.

CHRIS COCO – FEEL FREE LIVE GOOD – DEEP TRACK ANALYSIS:

1. Butterfly Heart – Deep electronic house music. The computer reveals that she has a fragile heart, and she’s fallen in love with you.
2. 8808 – Speaker shaking, sort of dub house, very effective on the Matter soundsystem. Turn up the bass.
3. City Knows Your Name – Iko tells the story of a strange love affair in Tokyo over a deep, dubby groove.
4. Washing Machine – A Latin instrumental inspired by the rhythm of the washing machine, naturally.
5. My Beach House – The swoosh of the waves, the drifting chords, the sounds of the Spanish guitar, it’s all in here on this very deep house groove.
6. Summertime – THE tune for summer lounging, the ultimate beach bar track.
7. Fizz – A soundtrack for the mixing of the first cocktail of the evening, cheeky lounge music that works so well at Supperclub London.
8. Riviera – A beautiful trumpet solo adds to the atmosphere on this slightly kitsch, slightly wonky, slightly 60s instrumental.
9. Feel Free Live Good – Weird atmospherics, distorted beats and simple philosophy for the album title track.
10. Beards Of Paradise -  Early doors dubby disco groove with a broken synth hook that sticks in your head.
11. Anonymiser – Deep, deep techno that just floats around.
12. Fragile Beauty – The piano soundtrack to 1000 French love stories.