[ Schack Tati ]

 
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Mats / Morgan
[ Schack Tati ]

[ Cuneiform Records / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 27 May 2014

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Schack Tati, a play on words around the Swedish for chess and French film maker Jacques Tati has all the implied impish humour the title suggests, which will be nothing new to fans of this long running Swedish musical partnership. This is emphasised in humorously unsubtle fashion on the cover, where our duo are pictured playing chess outside a shack. Keyboard player Mats Öberg and drummer Morgan Ägren first performed together in 1981, when Mats was only 10 years old, and Morgan a comparative veteran of 14 summers. Both childhood prodigies, that first public appearance included covers of Zappa and Beatles songs, and by 1984 the duo had formed a Zappa covers band, an impressive feat for players so young.

Schack Tati is their first new studio album since 2005's Thanks For Flying With Us, which has sold over 5,000 copies.

Schack Tati is the duo's first new album since 2005's Thanks For Flying With Us, and it goes SPPPRROINNGGG, like a bungee cord attached to a moon rocket as it flits about in time-honoured Mats/Morgan magpie fashion. Taking elements of jazz, rock, world music, electronica, dance music and no doubt, the kitchen sink, the end result is immediately identifiable as the sound that only Mats/Morgan can make.

Blind from birth, keyboard player Mats displays an intuitive control of the technology at his fingertips, crafting layers of sound under, over, and in between Morgan's subtle and complex rhythms, some programmed, some au naturel.

With the addition of Morgan's off-kilter falsetto vocals, opener Rubber Sky espouses the fun nature of this record as it jumps about on a trampoline, an airborne collision of the Hatfields and Depeche Mode.
(theprogressiveaspect.net)

Tracks:

1. Rubber Sky
2. Walk Here
3. The Swedes
4. Mr. Piccand
5. Rappel
6. Dracul Of Nancy
7. Tati Bake
8. DJ Fetisov
9. Vinyls & Pusherman
10. The Curse Of Knowledge
11. Russian Tourists Not In Line
12. Schack Tati