Sknail - Snail Charmers (2015)

Imagine an old-fashioned jazz club, dark and filled with smoke. A singer, five top notch musicians, breathtaking improvisations. Now transpose the same scene into the year 3147! SKNAIL, a Swiss composer and producer, has done just that and presents a 2nd album of visionary, organic jazz, some sort of a musical sci-fi novel, in which the « not-quite-humans-anymore » play the music of their ancestors, digging it up from some faraway place in their memory. The warmth of the acoustic instruments confronts cold electronics and takes the listener on a journey into the jazz of the distant future, delicate and pure. From their futuristic and ultra-technological world the Snail Charmers are transmitting an important message with the help of Nya’s voice.

SKNAIL : production, electronics, programming
Nya : vocals
Patrice Moret : double bass
Yannick Barman : trumpet
Philippe Ehinger : bass clarinet
Guy-François Leuenberger : piano
Alain Dessauges : double bass

Tracklist:
1.01 - Sknail - Slow Poison (5:08)
1.02 - Sknail - Snail Charmers (4:08)
1.03 - Sknail - Anthem (4:19)
1.04 - Sknail - Digital Breath (4:01)
1.05 - Sknail - I Shot the Robot (4:29)
1.06 - Sknail - Lacrima (5:12)
1.07 - Sknail - Something's Got to Give (4:42)
1.08 - Sknail - All Good Things (4:24)
1.09 - Sknail - Suspended (6:20)