Following 2006’s massively acclaimed Movements album, which included the club hits ‘Night Falls’, ‘In White Rooms’, ‘Mandarine Girl’ and the classic ‘Body Language’, and an extensive world tour which saw them play over 150 dates in 20 months, Booka Shade, aka Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier, return with their third album, ‘The Sun & The Neon Light’.

It’s a mature work that tackles the contradictions between our day-life and our night-life, between the organic and the artificial, the individual and the crowd, the inner and the outer. This eternal tension is reflected not just in the range and complexity of the album’s moods, but also its mingling of acoustic and electronic textures – of course Booka Shade’s roots lie in club music, but for The Sun & The Neon Light they adopt a song-based approach, and expertly weave real instruments and voices with superbly detailed electronics to create a futuristic but very human kind of music.

The Sun & The Neon Light addresses the different kinds of joy and consolation which both day and nightlife can provide. We know that there’s a certain kind of self-knowledge, peace and enlightenment that’s only possible when we face the sun; yet we’re still drawn to the un-reality of night and its cool, bright neon like moths to a flame – why? It’s about possibility. It’s about what might happen. It’s to escape our loneliness, to be part of a crowd – together, or at least alone together – and above all it’s for the music. There’s something about that music which we can’t forget, something we’re addicted to and must return to again and again. Above all it’s this pull, this love, which Booka Shade celebrate over the course of The Sun & The Neon Light, their most fluid and exquisitely arranged album to date.

Booka Shade - The Sun & The Neon Light [Get Physical Music Track Listing]

01. Booka Shade - Outskirts

02. Booka Shade - Duke

03. Booka Shade - Dusty Boots

04. Booka Shade - Control Me

05. Booka Shade - Solo City

06. Booka Shade - Charlotte

07. Booka Shade - Numbers [Radio Mix]

08. Booka Shade - The Sun & The Neon Light

09. Booka Shade - Sweet Lies

10. Booka Shade - Karma Car

11. Booka Shade - Psychameleon

12. Booka Shade - Planetary

13. Booka Shade - Comacabana

14. Booka Shade - You Don’t Know What You Mean To Me (J’s Lullaby)

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