From UGHH.com:
Shibuya is the new project from the creative minds of Nicolay and Phonte Coleman, better known as THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE, whose sophomore album, the independent R&B/Soul smash Leave It All Behind (TFE/Hard Boiled; Oct. 2008), continues to gain momentum as the duo and their extended family of singers and musicians currently tour the United States and Canada with their critically acclaimed live show. The countless performances together have added a new level of sophistication to the musical output of Nicolay and Phonte, resulting in what they themselves consider to be one of their most ambitious projects yet.
The idea for Shibuya, which is the second installment in Nicolay’s City Lights series of albums, was first conceived after his first visit to Tokyo, Japan. Once back home, he wrote and recorded with a new-found sense of freedom, laying the groundwork for the albums Time:Line and Leave It All Behind as well a third album, a deeply personal homage to the Tokyo district of Shibuya that illustrates both the grandeur of Japan’s age-old heritage (“Meiji Shrine, “Rain In Ueno Park”, “The Inner Garden”) as well as the hectic city life of one of the world’s busiest metropolitan areas (“Crossing”, “Satellite”, “Bullet Train”) through two suites of richly multi-layered instrumental pieces.
Where City Lights Volume 1 was primarily instrumental, on Shibuya, the instrumental pieces are book-ended by several vocal songs written by Phonte, who keeps showing remarkable growth as a songwriter and vocal arranger, for up and coming fellow North Carolina vocalist Carlitta Durand, who previously collaborated with Phonte on Little Brother’s Getback album (ABB 2007) and many other projects. Also appearing is “FE” liveband-mate ZO!, who adds his virtuoso keyboard solos to two songs.
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Hit the jump for the album’s tracklisting and to preorder your copy…
- Lose Your Way feat. Carlitta Durand
- Shibuya Station
- Crossing
- Rain In Ueno Park
- Satellite
- Saturday Night feat. Carlitta Durand
- A Ride Under the Neon Moon
- Omotesando
- Meiji Shrine
- Shadow Dancing
- The Inner Garden
- Bullet Train
- Wake Up In Another Life feat. Carlitta Durand
- Departure
- Shibuya Epilogue feat. Carlitta Durand
Executive producers: Phonte Coleman & Nicolay Rook for Foreign Exchange Music, LLC
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Word Kevin, I saw this just browsing on ughh.com and had to pause a second lol. didn’t even know they were working on this.
Nicolay is definitley a unique producer. Not many producers can successfully make great music for R&B and hip hop artists. Can’t wait for the new album.
Apparently UGHH got the tracklisting wrong. This tracklist is straight from Nicolay’s camp.
Not sure about this one……..Hope he not getting gassed too hard man, it’s hardcore in Shibuya dude not on some love potions shit.
I love Nicolay. The guy is so soulful, yet contemporary. So ahead of the game. The FE albums and CL Vol 1, plus Time:Line are all on rotate in my iPod (Not physically though, that’s not how they work… I think I meant ’shuffle’).
Looking forward to it.
*dead*
can’t wait.
Carlitta is alllll over this
word up
I just saw this on Phonte’s twitter account, he’s got it as his profile picture at the moment, I googled it and came up here – I must’ve missed this original announcement. Crazy excited about it though, the other two mentioned albums were incredible (okay, FE was incredible – I’m still working on Time:Line but I did purchase the re-release on iTunes), and I’m a fan of both Nicolay & Phonte (and LB, HOJ etc). This will be a nice early-birthday present, can’t wait!