Ambient Sunday is serene in the 90s with: rocomoco x The Hidden – Serenity of the Sirens
Sunday was a game of two halves. A morning with sun and summers promise. And an afternoon of cloud and cold. It’s been that sort of Spring. Here’s rocomoco with The Hidden to offer something summery, serene and slightly salacious.
rocomoco are a Berlin based duo that have appeared here a few times before. They’re working again with The Hidden (Dan McRae from Southampton, England). The track is Serenity of the Siren. This references The Odyssey by Homer. Rocomoco explain that ““Siren, in Greek mythology a creature, half bird, half woman, who lured sailors to their doom with his sweet song” (Encyclopaedia Britannica) “Serenity of the Sirens” is from the forthcoming album “Electric Paradise” (May 17th). The track comes with a serene 90s downtempo vibe straight from the bottom of the ocean while the drums are merging Hip Hop with a programmed CR-78 Bossa Nova.”
There’s more than a little of some of Kruder & Dorfmeister at work here. The mood is languid, lush and just a touch salacious. The beats have a really lovely hefty hip hop kick but with a bossa hip wriggle.
There’s a bit of lounge guitar to add to the sun kissed beach vibe. A bass strums away slowly. This totally lures you in with its promise of something rather special. It’s one of those wonderfully deceptive tracks. Superficially it seems like little is happening but underneath this is a work of art in into intricacy. Utterly perfect laid back summer music.
Tie me to the mast and let me listen to this track forever.
ACID TED 