Ghia - Tender Rain LP (VINYL) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

Ghia
Tender Rain LP

Label    EDGE043 | The Outer Edge
Style    Disco, Italo, New Beat
Format    LP
Country    Germany

01 Tender Rain
02 Auf Unserm Grünen Sofa
03 Teardrops In Your Eyes
04 Reise Bei Nacht
05 Change Your Sex
06 Und Recken Ihre Schlanken Glieder
07 New Love
08 Was Ich Dir Noch Sagen Wollte
09 What's Your Voodoo (Dark Spirits Mix)
10 Letzter Tanz

Call it soulful dream pop, proto-trip hop or downtempo jazz – “Tender Rain” is the follow-up LP to the successful “This Is” album and continues to deliver Ghia’s unmistakable sonic magic. On this release, the band shares a selection of previously unreleased vocal songs alongside instrumental pieces, all carried by their trademark chilled and almost meditative atmosphere. Most of the recordings date from the early 1990s, while early demo versions of “New Love” and “Teardrops in Your Eyes” may reach back as far as the late 1980s. The album opens with the title track “Tender Rain,” where smooth vocal jazz harmonies merge effortlessly with soulful pop elements. The track originally appeared only on CD in 1993 on the small Mikado label run by renowned German guitarist Ulli Bögershausen. The band recalls that the piece was first pre-recorded using MIDI equipment and a Tascam 16-track recorder before being completed in the studio with drums by legendary drummer Mickie Stickdorn (Carsten Bohn’s Bandstand, Cyklus, Elephant, Lake), percussion by Corinna Ludzuweit, and the final touch-Lisa Ohm’s remarkable vocals. At the time, Mikado was also looking for instrumental material for radio and synchronization use. They selected the track “Tropfstein” for a sampler CD and requested more pieces. In response, “und recken ihre schlanken Glieder” (roughly translated as “and stretching their slender limbs”) was composed especially for the project, as Frank Simon remembers. Both tracks appeared on the now rare Mikado sampler CD under the alias z. Zt., short for “zur Zeit” (“at present” or “these days”). Several further pieces in a similar vein were created during this period, including the previously unissued “Auf unserm grünen Sofa,” “Reise bei Nacht,” and “Was ich Dir noch sagen wollte.” These tracks are beautifully crafted downtempo pieces featuring smooth, jazzy piano lines combined with touches of ambient and New Age aesthetics. “Auf unserm grünen Sofa” stands out in particular and …

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Genre: SYNTH-POP
• Format Type: LP