BUY THE DIP

TRACKLISTING


1 Compro Oro - Ben-Hur
2 Compro Oro - The Lower 9th
3 Compro Oro - Bitcoins
4 Compro Oro - Lament
5 Compro Or o - Solstice
6 Compro Oro - Karsilama
7 Compro Oro - Dungeon
8 Compro O ro - Kayak





INFO


Ghent based psych jazz collective Compro Oro, are set to release new album 'Buy The Dip' on the 2nd Sep tember via the groove-obsessed Sdban Ultra label. Having received critical accla im for their 2020 album 'Simurg' - a collaboration with Murat Ertel, co-founder and frontman of Istanbul's cult psychedelic folk band BaBa ZuLa and his singer p artner Esma Ertel - the band's fifth album is less ethno- and more techno-logy, both on a musical and conceptual level.

With tastemaker fans includin g BBC 6 Music's Gilles Peterson and Stuart Maconie alongside Jazz FM's Jez Nelso n, the band's spontaneous quest for psychedelic sounds and jazz grooves has not stopped expanding since their formation in 2014.

After imaginative mu sical trips to Havana, Mogadishu and Istanbul for previous releases, Compro Oro went looking for sounds and inspirations from other corners of the globe for 'Bu y The Dip'. Synthesizers and electronic effects spice up Compro Oro's distinctiv e musical marriage of vibraphones, electric guitars, jazzfunk rhythms, exotic pe rcussions and dubby bass patterns. Band leader and composer Wim Segers created t hese new compositions often on piano or vibes in a more analogue way, leaving en ough room for his band mates to colour each track when fine tuning the song.

Segers was inspired by the world of crypto markets and the specific conc ept of 'buying the dip': bitcoin diggers who play the markets at specific 'low' moments to gain higher profits when prices go up again. Are we all reduced to co nsuming creatures, seeking for nothing more than the thrill of pointless spendin g and endless profits? It's a fairly philosophical question - especially for an instrumental album - but it's key for the punchy and eclectic sounds on 'Ben Hur ' and 'Bitcoins'.

Apart from those synths and fx, a fair bunch of neo -noir western vibes sprout up on this album as well - think detuned piano's, fla menco-like guitars, rattling snare drums, and imminent whistles. Add to that som e laid back sunny pop sounds ('Kayak'), off-hook and swaying Turkish psychedelic a ('Karsilama') and even some haunted, kraut-ish vocal parts ('Dungeon'), it's e vident Compro Oro has a musical voice without any equal in Belgium and beyond.
Compro Oro released their first album 'Transatlantic' in 2015, an ode to jazz vibraphonist Cal Tjader, an icon of the 1950's Latin jazz movement. The release received critical acclaim back home, lauded in the press as a drunken mi x of Buena Vista Social Club and guitarist Marc Ribot's, Cubanos Postizos. Subse quent live shows have been called a celebration for the hips, the ear and the so ul.

2017 saw the release of 'Bombarda', a bold EP that sailed South a nd East of Cuba, incorporating different ethnic rhythms and melodies in elaborat e jams. No palm trees and cocktails in Havana this time, but instead dingy basem ents and LSD in West African cities. The critically acclaimed 'Suburban Exotica' followed in 2019 with 'Simurg', released in 2020, earning the band global succe ss.