Released: 2007
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“Tre” is cinematic/trip hop duo The Dining Rooms’ third record, and their first on Schema Records. Originally released in 2003, it contains songs that have been synchronized in popular TV series (C.S.I. Miami, Six Feet Under, Sex and the City).
TDR is not mere sounds. It is music.
You hear sounds but you feel music. TDR is a project about ‘more than music’, about now and then, present and past. It is music and images as well. To see what one feels is a language of boundless parameters: it’s about sharing communication beyond words. What is other than music and images to do it then? In TDR project, music and video stay together to create a movie, a juice of emotions in which distance between sounds and images is reduced to the minimum to set free our ’emotional loops’.
“Tre” marks The Dining Rooms’ debut on Schema Records, after two albums released on the research label Milano2000, “Subterranean Modern” and “NumeroDeux”, plus a lot of appearances on the most important atmospheric-downtempo compilations. It’s one of the most representatives records of the TDR sound: in fact, it has always been one of Schema Records’ best selling albums, even in the United States where it has been distributed by Guidance Records and some of its tracks have been synchronized in the TV Series “Six Feet Under” (Tunnel), “CSI Miami” (Fluxus) and “Sex and the City” (Prigionieri del Deserto).
The album contains 12 tracks, 12 elements redefining the borders of TDR music, drawing inspiration from Jazz, Africanism, Hip-Hop, House, Soul with true eclecticism. A turning point in TDR’s history, originally released in 2003, it still sounds modern and fresh even after more than 20 years.
Some great guests like SoulPatrol from Compost, Anna Clementi (the voice of G-Stone Tosca project) and the undiscovered talent of Sean Martin (he’ll touch your soul with his incredible voice) give the record a special touch, but the remarkable main feature is the mastery of the music matter that Stefano Ghittoni and Cesare Malfatti show us in this chapter: you can’t any longer use standard clichés and genres to describe it. From the black’n’soul of “Tunnel” and “Fighting 4 Rebirth” to the floor filling grooves of “African Loungesters”, “Prigionieri Del Deserto” and “La Città Nuda”, through the downtempo delights of “You”, “Anima Per Amarti” and “Astroblack”, “Tre” is an emotional journey that confirms TDR as producers with great sensibility and taste.
CREDITS
Song written and produced by The Dining Rooms (Stefano Ghittoni and Cesare Malfatti)1 and 8 written by The Dining Rooms and Sean Martin
3 and 12 written by The Dining Rooms and Luca Bonazzoli
5 written by The Dining Rooms and Anna Clementi
6 written by The Dining Rooms and Giornata Bettini
4 written and produced by The Dining Rooms and Soulpatrol (Michael Rutten and Soulspy)
11 originally written and performed by Sun Ra
Recorded at Che Studio in Milan (2001/2002)
Sound assistance by Giornata Bettini @ Noorda
Mastered by Giovanni Versari at Nautilus in november 2002
Sean Martin: voice in 1 and 8
Anna Clementi: voice in 3, 5 and 11
Paolo Milanesi: trumpet in 10
Vincent Dalschaert: piano in 10
Luca Bonazzoli: bass in 3 and Keyboard in12