GEORG LEVIN's (I Got) Somebody New first appeared as 12" single in 2002 on Recreation Recordings, DIXON’s former sub label on Sonar Kollektiv. It is a gloriously warm and funky number. The arrangement here has a genuine lounge feel with a tight horns section, fender rhodes and soul vocals by GEORG LEVIN and CLARA HILL. It’s a super hi-fi production thanks to VOLKER MEITZ who worked with the band as producer on the whole SK ORCHESTER project. This is heartfelt music for movin' on and dancing your blues away. LOVE & You and I is a cover of the JAZZANOVA track which was the opening number on their acclaimed 2002 album In Between (Compost). The SK ORCHESTER rendition starts with gongs, strings and flutes which creates a nice oriental feeling. But that lovely swinging beat quickly comes in to carry you away. The string crescendos are so dreamy and the breaks perfectly syncopated on this instrumental cover of the JAZZANOVA classic.
The full length SK ORCHESTER album (SK170CD/illicity, album title tba) will be released in April 2008. This is just a taster of the great things to come; an exclusive sneak preview of this beautiful new collaborative project from some of Sonar Kollektiv's finest. As anyone who witnessed their live premiere at the Sonar Kollektiv festival in Tape Club, Berlin during Popkomm this year will know, the SONAR KOLLEKTIV ORCHESTRA sound just as fresh live as they do on record. So here's hoping there will be a full tour to accompany the hotly anticipated release of the album