Music from on the road. Three new tracks from Andrea Mangia, on the Morr-map known as Populous. Friends of Morr Music – and friends of passionate music between abstract electronica, instrumental hip-hop and a clever pop-neighbourhood – are familiar with him at least by his second album »Queue For Love« that was released last year on Morr Music. A twenty-something from Lecce, Italy, with a biography full of electric guitars and hard disks, full of A Tribe Called Quest-albums and Technics-turntables. There are no borders between song and track, between analogue and digital, between the directness of here and now and the able and emphatic reprise of the sound-archives.
Whereas »Queue For Love« enlarged the abstract-electronic foundation of Populous' debut album »Quipo« with reference points such as jazz, space, songwriting and soul (as attitude AND sound-reference), »Breathes The Best« learns to stand on one's own two feet, finally free of drawers and expectations. From here on everything is possible.
»Breathes The Best» is a digital pop-song with body (in the sense of space to breath) and soul. A musical flow, congenially taken up by singer/MC short stories (aka Michael McGuire). A hit, concisely. »Bon Bon Pour Les Rappers« begins as a game of soundscapes, absorbed by Populous' earliest passion: a nonchalant rhythm pattern. »Blood Red Bird« finally is a cover version over the edge. The Smog-classic, played by Giardini di Miro - friends of Andrea Mangia for many years - and mixed, added and rearranged by Populous. Melancholy, indulging, rapt and at the same time close to your ear.
