If you�re resting after a nice meal, reading a book, starring at the celling, driving around on a sunny day or just fooling around with your
person-of-romantic-interest, then my friends, this is the perfect music to set up the mood! Clara has an angelic voice that will mellow your mind and relieve your body of any tension. Give it a go and I guarantee that your Sunday afternoon chill playlist is going to suffer some changes
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![]() A member of Berlin's Sonar Kollektiv roster, electro-soul vocalist Clara Hill has dabbled in the various genres of Germany's urban dance scene since the early '90s. Falling in love with the Fender Rhodes electric piano at age 17, she formed the local acid jazz duo Superjuice (though the duo later worked together as Hill & Fun�s), and the two gained a following in Berlin's many dance clubs. At one of their shows, Hill met DJ Alexander Barck of Germany's famed jazz-house ensemble Jazzanova. In 1998, Barck pressed her talents upon fellow Jazzanova producers Stefan Leisering and Axel Reinemer, who were taken aback by Hill's soothing vocals. Leisering decided to produce one of her first professional songs, "No Use," which would end up on Jazzanova's landmark In Between album four years later. Before Jazzanova set up their Sonar Kollektiv record label, Hill had put together another group in 1997, the hip-hop jazz band Stereoton. The band cut some of the label's first tracks, like "Kick Me Off," which appeared on some early compilations around the turn of the century. It was clear that the experience with Jazzanova was helping her evolve into a singer who could stand on her own. Thus, in early 2004, Sonar Kollektiv suitably released her first solo album, Restless Times. Hill's reflective song lyrics were featured over the dreamy, soul-inducing deep house produced by Leisering and Reinemer (known together as Extended Spirit) as well as her old friend Fun�s. The album caught the attention of some of the genre's most reputable artists, including Vikter Duplaix, Atjazz, and King Britt. They each contributed to the making of her 2006 follow-up, All I Can Provide. |
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Clara Hill - Restless Times (2004)
With "Restless Times", Clara Hill from Berlin enters the stage as a solo artist for the very first time. After the first few tracks you'll notice: This is a great soul voice unfolding its beauty and versality. Weather its floating, as in "Maybe Now", lucious as in "For Your Love" or dynamic as in "Restless Times", Clara Hill surely knows how to bring bear her voice to different beats and various musical atmospheres.
To record a solo album, was one of Clara's first goals. She wrote a few songs but then asked herself with whom she could record. Who could translate her musical ideas? She chose those with whom she had already worked earlier. Five tracks from "Restless Times" were produced and arranged with three friends (i.e. Fun�s, with whom she already produced the house track "Don't Hesitate"). The remaining seven tunes of the album were recorded with Stefan Leisering and Axel Reinemer from Jazzanova.
Who are the other voices she cooperated with for "Restless Times"? Besides Clara there's two male singers on the album. First, there's New Zealand's Joe Dukie (of Fat Freddy's Drop), who is currently enjoying global success with soulful reggae tunes like "Hope" or "Midnight Marauders". Dukie happened to be in Berlin while the recordings for Clara's album were made so he joined in a session and contributed his suede voice for "Flawless Pt.2". The second co-singer is Sascha Gottschalk, a.k.a. Thief, who co-wrote and co-sang "Morning Star" for and with Clara.
Clara Hills "Restless Time" is an album that instantly catches the listener. You'll hear, how her songs have developed into twelve small, yet complex miracles that breathe some heavy soul. Songs, that despite their electronical production, sound deep and warm. Amongst her tracks there are three proper club tracks. "Here" for example, who works perfectly on the dancefloor. The other tracks have a laid back downtempo vibe that gets sugared by Clara Hills sweet soul voice. After you've listened the album through, you'll instantly push the "repeat" button. With Clara Hill, it's just like with candy sweets: You can't get enough of them. (www.sonarkollektiv.com)
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Label Sonar Kollektiv
Release Date Mar 9, 2004
Bit Rate 128kbps (wma!!)
Track listing:
01. Maybe Now 2:08
02. For Your Love 5:19
03. Silent Distance 4:47
04. Restless Times 6:49
05. Flawless 5:59
06. That Easy 4:46
07. Here 7:20
08. Flawless, Pt. 2 (ft. Joe Dukie) 4:17
09. I'm There 4:22
10. Morning Star (ft. Thief) 4:14
11. Reprise 5:48
12. The Source 5:12 |
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Clara Hill - All I Can Provide (2006)
On her new album All I Can Provide, CLARA HILL easily does it: Blending a soulful voice with deep lyrics and sophisticated beats from an illustrious range of producers into an irresistable 21st century urban sound. With names like ATJAZZ, VIKTER DUPLAIX, CHARLES WEBSTER, SLOPE, SANDBOY (Tobias Meggle), VOLKER MEITZ and GEORG LEVIN, CLARA HILL has collaborated with the cr�me of clubland�s soul and jazz knob twisters. The result is a personal and very mature album, full of great songs, moods and emotions. Its sensuous atmosphere will make hearts beat faster, its grooves will move hips on many dancefloors.
A little more than two years after the release of her debut album Restless Times, CLARA HILL steps ahead with All I Can Provide. While her first album was an excursion into the depths of electronic soul, All I Can Provide is furthering her vocal journeys while mirroring the various musical styles that CLARA is passionate about. Naturally, there�s a broad range of genres to be found: Deep house and boogie, jazz ballads as well as folk oriented songs vibrate on All I Can Provide. It�s a bit like listening to a excellent mix tape, with CLARA�s splendid voice as the mastress of ceremony.
Besides the collaborations with producers, she also invited co-singers to join in on her tunes. There�s Paper Chase featuring VIKTER DUPLAIX, or the album�s title song All I Can Provide which she co-sang and co-produced with fellow Sonar Kollektiv artist George Levin. Except for the tracks produced by ATJAZZ, SANDBOY, VIKTER DUPLAIX, CHARLES WEBSTER and KING BRITT, most of the album�s other tracks were co-produced by CLARA HILL - consequently shaping the album�s personal mood and atmosphere.
Lyrically, All I Can Provide is more complex and clearer than her debut. With her new songs, Clara captured ephemeral emotions, short, precious and intense moments. "The songs reflect a sort of emotional diary. They are documents of what surrounded and influenced me in the last two years, be it love, sadness, joy and curiousity", CLARA says in a conversation about the album. In comparison to her debut, the songs for All I Can Provide were written more spontaneously, "too keep an unfiltered feeling alive".
To put it short: With All I Can Provide CLARA HILL delivers a stunning second album. Twelve tracks full of soul, emotions and deepness, with a vivid passion for musical variety and the beats that move the more sophisticated dancefloors. Referring to the album�s title and it�s great musical quality, CLARA HILL quite obviously did provide a lot. (www.sonarkollektiv.com)
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Label Sonar Kollektiv
Release Date Aug 28, 2006
Bit Rate 192kbps (FhG)
Track listing:
01. What For (ft. Meitz) 6:07
02. Nowhere (I Can Go) (ft. Atjezz) 5:27
03. Endlessly (ft. Sandboy) 5:20
04. Wake Up 1:54
05. Hard To Say (ft. Slope) 4:26
06. Paper Chase (ft. Vikter Duplaix) 6:10
07. Just Paradise (ft. Georg Levin) 3:31
08. Just Let Me Know (ft. Tonee And Slope) 3:40
09. Run (ft. Meitz) 5:52
10. Did I Do Wrong (ft.King Britt) 9:38
11. 21 June 2005 13:48 |
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Clara Hill's Folkwaves - Sideways (2007)
CLARA HILL is one of the leading figures of Berlin-based Sonar Kollektiv. With an impressive discography including 2 critically acclaimed full-length albums Restless Times and All I Can Provide and many 12�s featuring the cr�me de la cr�me of Electronic and Jazz knob twidlers such as JAZZANOVA, ATJAZZ, VIKTER DUPLAIX, CHARLES WEBSTER, SLOPE, and KING BRITT.
But CLARA HILL is not only a talented vocalist with a soulful voice, she is also a multi-faceted artist with the ability to span over the music genres with elegance. And after two albums Restless times and All I Can Provide blending sophisticated Acid-jazz beats with soothing moods and emotive orchestrations CLARA HILL returns to her first influences with a brand-new project called CLARA HILL�S FOLKWAVES and an album entitled Sideways. With this project she intends to shed a light on a hidden side of her artistic personality. She crafted 10 delicious acoustic-based and folk-oriented songs highlighting perfectly her passionate and rapturous voice.
The result is a recollection of neo-folk tunes in a very calm and slightly jazzy orchestration like Everything produced by MARC MAC from 4 HERO and Wonderful World recalling moments of joy and well-being. She also left some space for very pure guitar and strings melodies in a sensuous atmosphere such as If Only and Don�t Go and invited her friends of JAZZANOVA and EXTENDED SPIRIT, as well as singer/song writer THIEF and NATHAN AMUNDSON from RIVULETS as male singers on her album.
CLARA HILL�S FOLKWAVES - Sideways is a magnificent album full of enough emotional peaks and valleys to satisfy even the most temperamental music lover. This new phase in her artistic life will please her most faithful fans and will pave the way for the Sonar Kollektiv crew in its new adventures in folk music. (www.sonarkollektiv.com)
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Label Sonar Kollektiv
Release Date Sep 09, 2007
Bit Rate 192kbps (LAME 3.93)
Track listing:
01. Be Like That 4:22
02. Everything (ft. Marc Mac) 4:10
03. Sad Girl 4:02
04. Interlude 1:39
05. Wonderful World 3:55
06. If Only 2:32
07. About You (ft. Thief) 4:12
08. Ocean Queen 4:29
09. Once I Know 3:46
10. Don't Go (ft. Rivulets) 9:32 |
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