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About Waltz For Koop
Amazon.com Koop combines a wealth of summery melodies and floating vocals with the acid jazz of Gilles Peterson and the laid-back trip-hop aesthetic of Jazzanova and Peter Kruder. The result is a sweet, effortless sound on Waltz For Koop. Starting off with a Brazilian feel, Koop enlists Astrud Gilberto-like chanteuses Cecilia Stalin and Yukimi Nagano to augment the mood, while later, electronic trickster-legend Earl Zinger shows up for a decadent "Modal Mile." The record takes an otherworldly turn with the presence of Chicago folk-jazz artist Terry Callier, as his wistful, spiritual pipes give "In a Heartbeat" a depth that eludes most DJs, who go for electronic lounge and end up with elevator music. Good-natured and accessible without being trendy, Waltz puts a lot of other "chill" collections to shame. --Matthew Cooke Product Description Koop comes from a universe where Miles Davis never made Bitches Brew, replacing swing with funk, and instead double basses kept walking and jazz kept swinging all the way until the sampler arrived to chop it up. Not electronic music with a touch of jazz, but jazz sparingly laced with electronics. Magnus Zingmark and Oscar Simonsson, both from Sweden's main university-town Uppsala, now residing in Stockholm, were the first two jazzheads in their hometown to lose interest in the perpetual Hammond organ-licking of Jimmy Smith. Instead, they embarked together down the more rewarding paths of Hard-bop and raw Latin beats, avoiding fusion's tendency to dilute the original spirit of jazz. Waltz For Koop has been re-released by Palm Pictures with a added tracks and a bonus DVD, containing the acclaimed videos for "Summer Sun" and "Glomd," as well as two remixes, "Summer Sun" (Markus Enochson Remix) and "Relaxin' at Club F***n" (Dorfmeister vs. Madrid de los Austrias Version). About the Artist Koop means co-operation. And apart from the core duo of composers / arrangers / producers Magnus Zingmark and Oscar Simonsson with their wide range of collaborators, what's really co-operating in Koops music is the sixties vocaljazz-magic of Swedish icon Monica Zetterlund with a producer-focused 2001. Arriving at that point from, in Magnus case, hip hops Golden Age of Public Enemy and Boogie Down Productions to the Detroit-techno euphoria of Inner City and their acid house-cousins and, in Oscars case, from Birds Parkers Mood and John Coltranes Alabama to playing the piano in a succession of DIY-jazz combos, the two decided to join forces in helping Swedish jazz regain that momentum its lacked ever since the sixties when all creativity and forward thinking talent escaped the genre. Perceiving jazz as rhythm and form rather than the orthodox idea of jazz being merely improvisation, Koop manages to escape the staleness of both some programmed musics lack of variety, and some contemporary jazz recordings dead end fixation with clean sound. On this, their second album, Magnus and Oscar have attempted to capture the combined elegance and rawness of the Clarke/Boland Sextet. An impressive cast of previously unknown, famous and legendary vocalists support the main instruments of piano, bongos & delicate percussion. Dissatisfied with the current industry standard of +70 minute albums, Koop make sure the new album, although two and a half years in the making, is brief in length while rich in content, like all the classic albums of the past. Indeed, this album may well become a classic in its own right if one were to trust the lucky few who own a promo-CD. Waltz For Koop had been played, charted and loved to death by people like Kruder & Dorfmeister, Nuspirit Helsinki, Jazzanova, Rainer Trüby, Alan Brown, Les Gammas, DJ Mad Mats and Nick Weston. To this end BBC Radio One's highly esteemed DJ Gilles Peterson confidently exclaimed: "The album of the year has already arrived!" Music does things like that to you every now and then. At least this music does.
