LA TORRE VOLUMEN UNO

TRACK LISTING A1 Francis Bebey - Forest Nativity A2 Domenique Dumont  Comme Ça A3 Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Air A Danser A4 Ahmed Fakroun - Nis Yan B1 Spooky - Orange Coloured Liquid B2 Cantoma - Tabarin B3 Finis Africae - Managua B4 András - Gold Coast (Surfer™s Paradise Mix) C1 Barry Forgie - Dawn Mists C2 Il Guardiano Del Fa Ro - Discodivina C3 Tri Atma Und Gyan - Nishabda Natürlicheliebe C4 Planet Funk - Inside All The People (Harvey™s Ibiza Sleepy Mix) D1 Mark Barrott - Deep Water D2 Gryningen Frün Andra - Hand Till Strñnderna Inice D3 Hatchback - White Diamond INFO No matter the season or the nationality, every day on Ibiza, tribute is paid to Carthaginian deity Tanit at sunset. The warrior goddess of dance, fertility, creation and destruction lords over the Balearic island, as she has for centuries. Phoenicians, Assyrians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Arabs, and even the Norwegians have conquered the island since ancient times and every summer that history plays out, a similar array of nationalities descending on the island anew. Yet the soul of Ibiza remains intact. Every sunset still ushers in her arrival. That singular, sacred time on the island, taking on the feel of a pagan ritual, a shift in consciousness„ the end of the beginning. For those who make the pilgrimage looking for this transformative experience, it requires little more than venturing away from the Vegas-like lights of San Antonio towards such sublimity. Tucked away on the west coast of the island, Hostel La Torre beckons with its beauty and ˜vista spectacular™, encompassing the essence of that authentic Balearic spirit, as pioneered by Alfredo Fiorito at Amnesia and José Padilla at Café del Mar in the early 80s. But this is not an exercise in nostalgia, rather a journey that seeks to reframe Balearic music in the present moment by embracing that ˜anything goes™ spirit via the avant-garde of Finis Africae™s šManagua›, rare classics like the Arabic pop funk of Ahmed Fakroun™s šNisyan› and Cameroonian poetry of Francis Bebey™s šForest Nativity›, with the proto Ambient House of Spooky™s šOrange Coloured Liquid› and modern productions like Dominique Dumont™s šComme ça›, Andras™s šGold Coast› and Mark Barrott™s šDeep Water›. Balearic in it™s truest form is all these things and much more, it™s cosmopolitan and countercultural, international yet wholly specific to a singular place on Earth. It lights upon and encapsulates all the evocative beauty of Ibiza, the sounds themselves matching the colour palette of the island. The red dirt hills and the white sands, the pink blooms of almond trees and the electric blue of the water surrounding Es Vedrà, the magnetic magic, vivid colours and raw beauty of Ibiza is all here. At its root, Balearic music is always experiential. So even if you can™t get to the terrace at La Torre for the ˜vista spectacular™, feel free to open up the gatefold, pour a chilled glass of Belondrade and journey back within.