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Sentinel EP

by Simon-Mary Vincent

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Sentinel 06:02
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Cookin' It 06:31
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Gift 05:35
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Known for releases on LTJ Bukem’s Good Looking and Cookin' Records, Vincent stepped out on her own with the Sentinel EP, the first single for new label Vision Of Sound, yet again, throwing down grade-A complexity with a sleazy wide-screen sound and uncompromising production.

"I could imagine the track Sentinel being used on a sci-fi horror chase sequence; it’s dark, it’s raw, there’s a scary bass, some eerie strings and a psycho pianist on the loose. This incredibly individual EP brings Vincent out of the shadow of Good Looking Records, and allows him free reign to explore his unadulterated take on drum ‘n bass influenced nu-jazz. These are thundering tunes for a twisted dance floor."
Chris Wheeler, Knowledge Magazine

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Reflecting on these tracks almost 20 years after they were written is an interesting process.

In many ways, they are of their time and the technology I was using then. However, they also explore aspects of music that have fascinated me - and continue to do so - since my childhood, ones whose direction I haven’t always chosen to follow in my other compositions, at least not as explicitly as here.

Sentinel is my take on 70s and 80s sci-fi, with its jazzy, funk-based future-retro synths, and heavy 2000s breakbeat sound.

Cookin’ It was written as a swan song to our family’s upright piano, before it left the house. Using a basic mic placed inside the piano near the hammers for a lo-fi sound, I improvised along with a fairly simple bassline and drum pattern, in stark to contrast to the jazz and soul of the piano material.

Gift is a quirky, energetic track bringing together lots of different rhythmical elements from choppy drums and staccato piano, to legato flutes and strings. The title came to mind when I decided to bring in the sound of a cimbalom, an instrument used in much Hungarian folk music. I decided to use this evocative sound as a reference to my Hungarian heritage, a powerful cultural gift from my mother’s side of our family.

The evening I completed Marksman, the second ep in this series, I grabbed some records, headed into London and DJ-ed at a residency until the early hours, when I returned home, packed up my belongings and moved house.

Somehow Sentinel and Marksman provided a fitting ‘soundtrack’ for those events back in 2002 to 2004, but I hope that listeners will be able find in this music something of interest for themselves in 2022.

Thank you for reading and for listening.

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released June 23, 2004

Composed, performed and produced by Simon-Mary Vincent.
© Simon-Mary Vincent (PRS/BMI), 2004
℗ Vision Of Sound Publishing (BMI), 2004

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