Onra - Chinoiseries 3

Release Date:05/05/2017;Notes:Vinyl LP pressing. 2017 release. Almost 10 years have passed since Onra arrived with the charmingly eccentric Chinoiseries LP. Thirty two hip-hop beats formed the sample-based project - dusty Chinese vinyl hissing and crackling throughout - resulting in an intriguing and spontaneous mix of the producers interest in exploring a newly-discovered style of music with his love for classic hip-hop production. Using the style of analog MPC production combined with the somewhat restrictive record sampling of strictly Chinese music records, he has been able to be creative over three volumes, an amount of 100 instrumentals, despite the challenge of finding more obviously standout samples in Chinese music. The Chinoiseries projects are the type of albums that invites the listener to play it from beginning to end, in order to really enjoy the trip and appreciate the variety of rhythms and textures spread over those 32 short instrumentals. In that way, Pt.3 is no different to it's predecessors, but the originality of the samples, the curious harmonies and the odd-drum patterns still makes the album sounds as fresh as the first one. Onra finishes this epic trilogy with class as a result of extended record digging across the Far East and the producer's own development over the preceding 10 years. As a producer who has released records inspired by '80s Funk, '90s hip-hop and R&B, electronic and even a spiritual Jazz project, Pt. 3 brings this stylized set to a close.;Track List:1. The Final Chapter;2. Loyalty;3. Autumn Moon Shining Over the Calm Lake;4. Reminds Me of..;5. Will I See You Again;6. Hold My Hand;7. The Storm;8. Fake Porcelain;9. Moonlit Street;10. Like the Seasons;11. Lin Shao Ding;12. Tea Vender on the Street;13. Behind the Curtain;14. Voices in My Head;15. Keep Your Head Up;16. Waterlily;17. Memories from 1968;18. Thank You Very Much;19. Last Cup of Wine;20. Zoodiac;21. Against the Wall;22. Trip to Yunnan;23. New Year's in Guang Zhou;24. A Distant Dream;25. Incantation;26. Pearl Song;27. The Spirit Blossoms All Over the Land;28. Legacy;29. Betrayal;30. Persons on the Blacklist;31. They Got Breaks Pt.3;32. Bye Bye