Peace Orchestra by Peace Orchestra (CD, Sep-1999, G-Stone Recordings)

Album Features
UPC:	730003230424
Artist:	Peace Orchestra
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1999
Record Label:	G-Stone Recordings
Genre:	Dance, R&B

Track Listing
1. Man, Pt. 1, The
2. Meister Petz
3. Double Drums
4. Domination
5. Marakesh
6. Henry
7. Who Am I
8. Shining
9. Man, Pt. 2, The

Details
Playing Time:	57 min.
Producer:	Peter Kruder
Distributor:	Caroline Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Peace Orchestra includes: Chilli Bukasa (vocals); Peter Kruder (various instruments).Recording information: G-Stone Studio 1.Photographer: Oliver Kartak.Peace Orchestra is the solo project of Peter Kruder, better known as one half of Kruder & Dorfmeister, perhaps two of the finest producers in the trip-hop/downtempo/whatever arena. The world has been waiting patiently waiting for K & D's debut, content with the duo's amazing remix and DJ-mix discs. Until that day arrives, most of us should be just tickled by Kruder's individual contribution.PEACE ORCHESTRA continues the K & D tradition, pirating samples, sounds, and ideas from the best unknown jazz and R&B records, adding instrumental touches, and re-emerging with a painstakingly well rendered synthesis of jazz funk. This is Euro-synth groove music that remains fresh and original. On the opening "The Man, Part One," Kruder tells a sordid-sounding tale with lazy horns and squiggly electronics. The more upbeat "Meister Petz" uses fudged analog smears and a sleazy rhythmic pulse to imagine a soundtrack for "Blade Runner" remade as a Bogie film. Like Fila Brazillia, Funki Porcini, and others of the same dank-nightclub ilk, Kruder understands the funky inner recesses of the groove. PEACE ORCHESTRA demonstrates how to motivate its hypnotic inertia.

Editorial Reviews
...demonstrates that Kruder works just as well in the one-man-band setting....His stellar retro-futuristic fusion results in space-age easy listening music that's never too soft or sedate.
CMJ (19991018)

3 stars out of 5 - ...positively reeks of drizzly cold war spy soundtracks and flickering neon-lit bordellos, as an air of tension hangs fog-like over the slow, simmering jazz doodlings....Disturbing and daring in equal parts.
Muzik (19991101)

...a superb collection of downbeat collages, which actually outstrips anything [Kruder & Dorfmeister] have done to date....a low-key red-eyed stoner's delight....Such an immaculate album deserves your full attention.
The Wire (19991001)

4 out of 5 - ...emerges as an impressive composer in his own right. Peace Orchestra retains the trademark downtempo sound of a [Kruder & Dorfmeister] production and expands it into a full-length of cinematic scope....carries the perfect tension of hot-buttered and cold-blunted soul.
Alternative Press (19991201)

7 out of 10 - ...Playing with trace elements of early '70s Kraut-rock....totally otherworldly....[this] is data-age playboy music - cleanly engineered swankadelica for any lazy sophisticate who fancies himself rolling like a rico suave.
Spin (20000401)