UDON VALIS COLLECTIVE is a hip-hop/jazz project established in London. It began, under the name ‘The Instrumental Variables’, as a bunch of friends playing jazz covers in a university rehearsal room. It then morphed into something larger and more elusive, involving different musicians from different walks of life. Our first EP, ‘Instrumental Variables, il released by the Italian label BOA STUDIO RECORDS.
Our music is simultaneously a melancholy tribute to a more ‘authentic’ past (that spans across a few decades of musical evolution, from classic jazz to 1990s hip-hop) and a sombre meditation on contemporary urban existence. Udon Valis Collective inhabits tall grey buildings in rainy cities, and shines in the bidimensional light of SEGA genesis videogames.
Udon Valis Collective è un progetto hip-hop / jazz nato a Londra. È iniziato, sotto il nome di “The Instrumental Variables”, come un gruppo di amici che suonavano cover jazz in una sala prove dell’università. Si è poi trasformato in qualcosa di più grande e più sfuggente, coinvolgendo musicisti diversi provenienti da percorse differenti. Il nostro primo EP, ” Instrumental Variables, vol. 1″ è pubblicato dall’etichetta italiana BOA STUDIO RECORDS.
“La nostra musica è allo stesso tempo un tributo malinconico a un passato più “autentico” (che attraversa alcuni decenni di evoluzione musicale, dal jazz classico all’hip-hop degli anni ’90) e una cupa meditazione sull’esistenza urbana contemporanea. Udon Valis Collective vive in alti edifici grigi in città piovose e brilla alla luce bidimensionale dei videogiochi SEGA Genesis”
Performed by:
DRUMS – David Winston
KEYS – Peppe Taglieri (Algernon), Margaux Wehr (Misty; Such, such were the joys)
BASS- Leonard Kukic (Algernon; Istanbul Fantasy; Such, such were the joys), Gerardo Serra (fretless bass on Algernon; Such, such were the joys; upright bass on ‘Misty’)
SAMPLES AND TURNTABLES – Enrique Jorge Sotelo
VOCALS and LYRICS – Yasin Arslantaş (Istanbul Fantasy), Shyaam Caine (Algernon, Misty)
CLARINET – Peter Sims (Misty)
SAX – David Healey (Such, such were the joys)
Recorded by Francesco Carrer at DSI (The Dissident Sound Industry), London
Mixed by Francesco Carrer
Produced by Gerardo Serra and Francesco Carrer
Mastered at VDSS Recording Studio, (Morolo, Italy)
