Roman Flügel – Happiness Is Happening

Label:
Dial
Art.Nr.:
0952222
Kat.Nr.:
dial LP 031

Released:
29.08.2014
Cover:
Picture
Format:
2LP
Pressung:
EU - Original
Zustand:
Neu
Vinyl:
Cover:
Genre:
Electro + Electronic
Stichworte:
roman iv und soylent green, eight miles high
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Roman Flügel - Happiness Is Happening
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An Album By Roman Flügel Is Always A Sensation. That Holds True For His Countless Monikers And Collaborations As It Does For His 2011 Dial Debut Fatty Folders. Being The First Of Its Kind Under His Civic Name, The Long Over-Due Association Of Hamburg's Cerebral Label And Its Group Of Off-Centre House And Techno Individuals With Frankfurt's Favorite Electronic Music Producer For The Thinking Man And Woman, Proved To Be A Seminal One.
Now, That Sort Of Happiness Is Happening Again. Roman Flügel's Follow Up On Dial Takes Off, Where Fatty Folders Landed: On A Runway That Acknowledges The Roots Of House And Techno As Well As Its Fruits, But Leads To A Different Location. Exempt From The Burden That A Concept Album Can Lay On Its Author, Flügel Seems Not To Be Concerned With The Current Trends, Retro Fashion Or A Pre-Conceived Topic. Free-Wheeling And With A Freshness Akin To Morning Dew, He Rather Takes Us By The Hand And Through Ten Tracks That Sometimes Feel Like Songs Without A Voice.
Having Said That, The Strongest Point Of Happiness Is Happening Is That It Has A Voice. The Voice Of A Maker Who Is Not Afraid To Mix Joy And Pain, Ambient Textures With Remnants Dance Floor Euphoria, Quiet Spaces And Loud Places. So You Have An Almost Depeche-Mode-Like Ballad That The ”Friendship Song” Is, Next To The Techno City Ghost Story Of “Occult Levitation”. Slow-Motion Robot Disco (“Wilkie”) Appears As Much At Home Here As The Bulky “Stuffy” Or The Sudden Impact In “We Have A Nice Life”. That List Goes On And On. The Most Startling Fact About Roman Flügel's Tour De Force Is That Its Sum Is As Great As Its Parts. Nothing Feels Superfluous, Ill-Paced Or Forced Here. Its A Condensate Of A Life That Has Been Spent In Techno, House And Its Various Mutations And Archetypes With A Sensibility For Pop Music, A Consciousness Of Indie Culture And An Affinity For The Avant-Garde As Such. 
Happiness Is Happening Is Like A Concept Album Without A Concept. A Testament To The Fact That The Concept Of An Album That Works Within The Realms And Boundaries Of “Electronic (Dance) Music” Can Be So Much More Than A Loose Collection Of 12-Inches Or Just An Exercise In Style: It Can Be, After All, A Piece Of Art And At Its Best Comparable To A Successful Singer-Songwriter Album Without Words. Especially, When The Creator Of All His Seems To Be Truly Comfortable With Himself And At His Best. Then, Happiness Is Happening, Indeed.

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TitelFeaturingProducingLänge
A1. Connecting The GhostRoman Flügel04:48play
A2. Friendship SongRoman Flügel04:31play
A3. StuffyRoman Flügel05:48play
B1. Your War Is OverRoman Flügel07:08play
B2. WilkieRoman Flügel05:21play
C1. Tense TimesRoman Flügel03:52play
C2. ParadeRoman Flügel05:45play
D1. We Have A Nice LifeRoman Flügel05:31play
D2. Occult LevitationRoman Flügel03:33play
D3. All That MattersRoman Flügel03:33play
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