Monday, October 07, 2019

Sanya - SJ Tequilla (Craigie Knowes)


Title: Sanya 
Artist: SJ Tequilla
Label: Craigie Knowes
Cat Number: CKNOWEP21
Genre: Deep House

A1: Sanya
A2: Deolta
B1: Sweet Salts
B2: The Day After

Lush doesn’t do this release justice. SJ Tequilla, aka Naota Matsuda has come up with something rather special here. Embodying all that is great about deep house, ambient and rave, this release is a fragile, beautiful, chiasmic trip and goes beyond what mere words can portray. ‘Sanya’ and ‘Sweet Salts’ bring the beats, while ‘Deolta’ and ‘The Day After’ the atmos. That’s not to say that they don’t intersect, as across the quartet there is a sense that these tracks contain such multitudes that they could go on forever, which is why I’m glad that ‘Sweet Salts’ is eight minutes long. Play music like this at my funeral and I’ll be smiling in my coffin.

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