Europa, by Jumpel

Europa

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1.	Arles 03:53	buy track
2.	Bern 03:54	buy track
3.	Stockholm 04:15	buy track
4.	Venedig 03:11	buy track
5.	Rom 05:15	buy track
6.	Madrid 05:45	buy track
7.	Edinburgh (free) 04:40	download
8.	Wien 03:15	buy track
9.	Mailand 03:33	buy track
10.	Lissabon 03:31	buy track
11.	Koeln 04:22	buy track

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Inspired by Jo Dürbeck’s travels around Europe, Europa transforms Dürbeck’s personal memories of 11 different European locations into a gorgeous suite of minimal ambient electronica. The album acts as a kind of abstracted sonic diary, painting the intangibilities and romanticism of memory and travel using sparse yet resonant sound. A simple idea – and one that has produced Jumpel’s most restrained and unified effort to date.

Like many journeys, Europa begins with speculation and tentative steps. In ‘Arles’ and ‘Bern’, the delicate pattering of subtle rhythms is counterbalanced with delicate melodic figures, like light reflecting off water. In ‘Stockholm’, disembodied voices and more forceful rhythms seep into the mix as the album heads towards a beatific plateau of sorts with its central trio of ‘Rom’, ‘Madrid’ and single ‘Edinburgh’. Beautifully evoking the rain-soaked streets of the Scottish capital, refracted through a personal lens, ‘Edinburgh’ is an exercise in elegance and restraint, filling out the shadows and backstreets with ennui. Melancholic piano chords carry the track forward while electronic texture’s weave amid Chloë March’s luminous lyrical play. A departure – yet also an arrival.

'Wien' simply aches with melancholic introspection, tracing one of travel’s most wonderfully paradoxical sensations – the feeling of looking back while moving forward. 'Mailand' continues the introspective thread, gliding gracefully into the ambient dub of 'Lissabon', followed by the wonderfully understated electronica and found sound of closer 'Koeln'. Rather than a final point on the journey, 'Koeln' offers a rest point and an understanding that there is always another destination in queue.

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released November 25, 2010

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Jumpel Köln, Germany

Jumpel is a German based electro-ambient musician.
He gained his first musical experience playing with empty detergent cans and cardboard boxes. In 1986 he bought a Commodore C-64 and discovered making music with the computer.
Since then he has been trying to find the truth of his musical identity and feels a great sense of gratitude to have had so many inspiring moments with exciting people.
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Drive

Dec 2020
Cabogato

Jul 2019
Bloc4

Jun 2013
Flight

May 2013
Blue Ceiling

Apr 2013
Europa

Nov 2010
Edinburgh

Oct 2010
Deuxième Bureau

Feb 2009
Samuel Jason Lies On the Beach

Aug 2007

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