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A Deeper Life
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Huge news for Chaos In The CBD fans! Aotearoa's Ben and Louis Helliker-Hales present their debut album, which has been the best part of ten years in the making. A Deeper Life is a nostalgia trip, a tribute to the siblings’ youth, and steeped in house music strands from Italo house to ambient house. Features a wide range of guest stars from Chicago house cult hero Lee Pearson Jr. to British grime MC Novelist and of course regular NZ collaborators Nathan Haines & Isaac Asaeili. - Flying Out
A Deeper Life, Chaos In The CBD’s debut album over 10 years in the making, is nostalgic for the duo’s nature-filled youth, exploring the magical coastline and lush rainforest of New Zealand. “The title refers to our childhood, which was idyllic,” says Ben. “It was just the sun, the sand, the sea, waterfalls, birds and fish…” The album’s blissful setting is also depicted on the album cover: a painting, by a childhood friend, of the beach where they grew up in Devonport.
A Deeper Life whirls that profound love of house music and wide-ranging influences – from Brazilian to R&B, ambient to Italo to deep house and downtempo pop – into a serene, cohesive whole with their signature finesse. The result is an international dance sound that feels unmistakably like Chaos and ebbs and flows from the beach party to the club to the afterhours.
On the album they’ve teamed up with a number of US legends and married their vocals with the UK underground: Josh Milan of house pioneers Blaze brings his soulful vocals to the bossa nova beats of ‘I Wanna Tell Somebody,’ a future jazz-dance anthem. Unheralded Chicago house hero and Larry Heard collaborator Lee Pearson Jr. goes deep over ‘More Time’s broken beat flex. And on ‘Maintaining My Peace’, the brothers have matched veteran house singer-songwriter Stephanie Cooke with UK grime MC Novelist, on a slinky LDN interpretation of LA hip-hop and g-funk.
Also featured on the album are New Zealand jazz artist Nathan Haines, frequent collaborator Isaac Asaeili and more.
Tracklist
- Down by the Cove
- Mountain Mover [feat. Alex Cosmo Blake]
- Maintaining My Peace [feat. Novelist & Stephanie Cooke]
- Tears [feat. Saucy Lady]
- Brain Gymnasium
- I Wanna Tell Somebody [feat. Josh Milan]
- Ōtaki [feat. Finn Rees]
- Love Language [feat. Nathan Haines]
- A Deeper Life [feat. Isaac Aesili]
- More Time [feat. Lee Pearson Jr. Collective]
- Tongariro Crossing [feat. Nathan Haines]
- Barefoot on the Tarmac
- Marlboro Sounds
- The Eternal Checkout [feat. Cenk Esen]
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