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Rating: "Ballroom Stories" is the third album by Klaus Waldeck, an Austrian producer who offers an elegant downtempo infused with dub, jazz, and especially swing.
By adapting the twenties into a modern guise, Waldeck utilizes a wide range of instruments (trombone and piano primarily) to achieve a sort of nu-swing that clings to gentle and sophisticated melodies ("Make My Day" great vocal-great video, "Addicted" exquisitely Parisian), and retro exercises reminiscent of black-and-white films ("Memories" timid dubbed melodies, "Jerry Weintraub" playful and jovial, "Dope Noir" airy ballad that takes on the spiritual tones of Psalm). "Midsummer Night Blues" with its triplet house rhythms and jazzy counterpoints recalls a Gloomy Sunday in a less depressing form, while the vocals of co-author Zeebee are always excellent and more than ever suited to the context.
Absolutely nothing pretentious, very pleasant album, very short and light-hearted, an ideal break between a heavy Jon Hassell piece and an electric shaman-form Davis. [3.5]
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Make My Day (02:49)
Make My Day
You know how to turn me on
Oh you got it going on
Baby you can make my day
(one, two)
You know how to turn me on
Oh you got it going on
Baby you can make my day
Come on get down with me
We can dance the night away
Baby you can make my day
Nothing’s going to stop us now
We can get down anyhow
Come on baby make my day
Come on come on
Turn the radio on
Turn it up the neighbour’s gone
You can make my day
You know how to turn me on
Oh you got it going on
Baby you can make my day
Come on come on
Turn the radio on
Turn it up the neighbour’s gone
You can make my day
You can make my day
03 Memories (03:53)
All those souvenirs in my memories
got me going down in strike
all those souvenirs in my memories
got me ruining my soul
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all those souvenirs in my memories
got me going down in strike
all those souvenirs in my memories
got me ruining my soul
but if you tell me what i should be afraid
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but if you tell me what i should be afraid
and maybe this sound is increasingly high
all those souvenirs in my memories
got me ruining my soul
but if you tell me what i should be afraid
04 Addicted (03:56)
Any time I try to get through
Your phone is quiet and so are you
The consequence of mine denying (?)
Oh what I mean
We’ve been together so long
The story moved on but we did not
The love we felt
That rescues us sentiment
Of what I meant
Oh Baby come back to me
Please darling can’t you see
that I ‘m addicted to you, that I ‘m addicted to you
Oh Baby come back to me
Please darling can’t you see
that I ‘m addicted to you, that I ‘m addicted to you
We’ve been together so long
The story moved on but we did not
The love we felt
That rescues us sentiment
Of what I ment
Oh Baby come back to me
Please darling can’t you see
that I ‘m addicted to you, that I ‘m addicted to you
Oh Baby come back to me
Please darling can’t you see
that I ‘m addicted to you, that I ‘m addicted to you
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