Pretz - Soundcastles

Pretz é Neil Cowley, homem dos teclados dos Zero7 e que por sua vez também assina com o nome de Fragile State (outro projecto que aconselho). Soundcastles é um álbum que já data de 2006 e que só há pouco tempo descobri. Passeiam-se electrónicas nu-jazz, downtempo e lounge, com muito teclado rhodes e com arranjos de cordas a passear. Do myspace roubei o seguinte:

"Sound Castles is the eagerly awaited album from writer, producer, jazzmeister, Zero 7 keyboard player and all round talented fella - Neil Cowley.
Soulful, spiritual, atmospheric stuff riddles this latest work from our man Mr. Cowley who used to be one half of downtempo dons Fragile State; but now spends as much time touring with his Jazz trio as making the seminal laid back beats you will discover here. Named after a Swiss mountain top village Pretz realized the incarnation that is Sound Castles over the course of a busy couple of years.
A couple of years that we feel Neil best explain for himself in his own words. Quite rightly it's now time for us to hand over the literary reins and leave you in Neil's capable hands to unravel the plot for this his debut solo project and gives us a low down on where he and his music is at."

Pretz - Texas exhale

Soundcastles download part1 & part2