Five years on from their inception, Paris-based record label Rotary Phono Lab prepare to release the long-awaited album from Amine Laje aka Traumer.
A maestro of groove-heavy club engineering, Romain Poncet shifts gears from the kinetic pulse of packed dancefloors to a deeply introspective opus sculpted in post-lockdown solitude. Spanning eleven tracks, ‘Datsha‘ unravels a spectral dreamscape where celestial ambient, boom-bap nostalgia, and high-fidelity jazz coalesce into a diary of stillness and release.
Our pick for the premiere is opening track ‘Enchanté‘, drifting in like a whispered incantation. Ultra-filtered piano chords shimmer on the brink of ubiquity, as if composed by unseen hands in some ethereal plane. Voices rise in a polyphony of bells, weaving a tapestry that feels like an elegy to forgotten benevolence. It’s a feathery meditation on caged thoughts where love and hope dissolve into a collective yearning, leaving behind only the shadow of their deepest fears.
‘Datsha’ is scheduled for release 20th March via Rotary Phono Lab. Buy a copy from Bandcamp.
TRACKLIST
1. Enchanté
2. Petit Cat
3. Little Bird Wants To Fly
4. Southern South
5. 60th
6. Further Happiness
7. Love 4 Em
8. Ridin Smoothly
9. Roucous
10. Live Me Now
11. Mimosa