Aqua Velvet
Hey Everybody, Let's Fall In Love
© 2005 Aqua Velvet
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Lounge-core exotica instrumental versions of 50's, 60's and 70's pop hits as re-imagined by Brian Wilson and Esquivel.
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Puremusic.com calls it "a classic of pop re-invention; some of the greatest pop songs ever, done in uncanny ways, instrumentalized as you've never imagined."
Nashville Scene calls it "....an audio lounge stocked with whatever the November 1965 Playboy deemed necessary for romantic conquest..."
World-wide WFMU DJ Bob Brainen listed Aqua Velvet among his top five CDs of 2005.
Aqua Velvet is Jim Hoke and Randy Leago., multi-talented musicians with massive studio and artist track records, revisiting and re-inventing some of the most intriguing, adventurous, or just plain coolest classic pop tunes of the 50's,60's and 70's. They draw from a "Pet Sounds"-sized instrumental palette and touch on styles from other times and exotic places.
They may throw a Bach-like fugue into "Friday On My Mind" or mix a sitar raga with a barrage of jew's harps in "Happenings Ten Year's Time Ago". There is an elegant tango flavor on the Byrd's beautiful "You Showed Me", with french accordian and pizzicato strings, and they go to a sensuous, otherwordly place on the sexy "I Only Have Eyes For You" with smoky sax, slinky steel guitar and undulating bass flutes.
These are BIG musical pictures, using BIG ideas and beyond that, they feel good. Amazed musicians here and in Europe who've heard advance cuts are asking, "Is there a whole CD of this stuff?". Now there is.
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Velvet-y Indeed
author: Doug FergusonI love lounge music, let's start there. But I also admire precision and virtuosity, and I found it in Jim Hoke and company's fun and fancy free efforts. If you love this album as much as I do, you should also purchase 'A Splash of Aqua Velvet' to make your experience complete! I promise you'll fall in love, so 'Come Softly'. ;-)
It's all about the Love!!!
author: Todd RemleyFantastic pop songs from the 50's,60's and beyond, you have heard [or should have heard] arranged by Jim Hoke and played by a cast of outstanding musicians. Jim's partner in crime is the multi talented Randy Leago & this guy plays it all.... Seriously folks the man is as amazing as Jim and together they make some of yesteryears pop songs come alive into some of the most wonderful music I have had the pleasure to hear. Buy their CD's, go see them play live in Nashville. They play at Grimey's Basement several times a year and it's worth every penny of the $5 - $8 it costs.