His comely wife, Barbara Fasano, who bears a distant vocal resemblance to Lena Horne, is best known for her Harold Arlen album, "Written in the Stars".
For the rest of the song that riff and the distant vocal snippets interact to create something beautiful, compelling and perfect for a Monday.
The languid tenor-sax vamp of In Memory of Samir Awad turns to smeary upper-tone asides over pounding drums; the initially free-jazzy Tiger gets slinkier in dialogue with the tuba; Afrofuturism mixes marching-band music, abstract sax shimmers and distant vocal chants.
HEwrote is a spacey, near-tropical jaunt with feelsy, distant vocals -- Not an immediate shout for a dance floor banger.
Thé Au Harem D'Archimède is like liquid ketamine soaking into fluttering ribbons of velvet, ten impossibly supple, percussive grooves, the final two featuring the distant vocals of Cassy Britton.
Everything about the track is suited for the playa, from the tambourine-like crashes to the distant vocals, to the wandering synth lines that suggest blazing sunset horizons.
It's easy to see why Tripwire's got the peaktime slot: his selections run towards the deep and velvety ketamine-house variety, with 303 squelches pooling around distant vocals and dusty Detroit textures.
In neon lingerie she performs other-worldly gospel songs amidst bouquets of fluorescent flowers that breathe in her warped foggy synths, hazy guitar feedback, and distant vocals over moonlit lounge beats.
The focal point of the piece is the intricately sequenced, acid-esque melody, accompanied with lush pads and a distant, whispering vocal sample. .
Creating sets of massive aural scenery rife with heightened serenity, muffled movements, and distant, disembodied vocal samples, Jenssen helped usher in the new wave of ambient techno producers exploring the intersect of vaporous tones and austerely utilitarian beats.
Opening with a distant, unnerving vocal sample that sounds somehow panicked and detached at the same time, the track descends into pure dread: heartbeat thumps drift in and out of the scattered percussion and looming, leering synth sweeps becoming increasingly tense and queasy.
