Quiroga - Villa Lysis
Really Swing | RSWING 014
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/quiroga-chords-desire/789246-01/
Neapolitan Funk and Jazz, Broken Beats and some DnB? Yes please.. Over the last few years, Naples has steadily become a radiant epicentre for sun-dazed funk from outer space, pushing forth a noria of like-minded keyboard vibists and transcending the limitative 4x4 radius to establish a sound both sprightly dancy and immersively organic. A gifted exponent of that retro-laced cosmic funk sound that’s become trademark to the city’s musical identity,
Walter Del Vecchio alias Quiroga resurfaces on Really Swing with the aptly named ‘Chords and Desire’, two years after his last sortie ‘Cups and Balls’.
Beaming us up to an Eden of woozy synths, FX-laden Rhodes and translucent melodies, Quiroga bathes his listener in an infinite pool of laidback nu-disco tropes, reshaped P-funk motifs and further Balearic compatible stabs. It all starts with the lascivious ‘Dabbler in Love’, a slo-blooming piece of late summer audio hedonism, primed for extended sun-basking sessions with your lover by the sparkling seaside. Blazing with romantic fire and overly sensual by essence, the tune dips further into freejazz jamming and melodic abstraction, drawing closer to a spaced-out ‘70s Herbie Hancock joint as bars fly by. A more organic affair, ‘Kundabuffer’ whelms us in a downtempo trompel’oeil - lushly painted with birdsong samples, tape-echo’d textures and swarms of wobbly synth stabs that’ll get your knee-caps soft as jelly.
Picking up the torch on a further hypnagogic jazz kind of vibe, ‘Villa Lysis’ will have you drifting in the zone in a caress as it merges lucid dream sourced panpipes, chimey chords and sedated slap bass. An equally lavish though more dynamic cut, ’Snaporaz’ engineers a mix of acidulous funk, spacious, sci-fi-indebted ambientism and late-summer nostalgic layers. EP closer ‘Drum ’N Bass For Papa’ finds Quiroga mischievously flaunting his junglistic assets along with his signature free-wheeling keyboard bravura, upping the tempo for a last ride that eschews a lulling you-to-sleep finale but extrapolates the Italian producer’s knack for carving out jazz-funk beats as unorthodox in structure as they’re instantly captivating groove-wise.
