Music and art go hand in hand. Cover art is important to rise the attention of a potential consumer. With an attractive woman on the cover a CD has often a better chance. The covers of Konstantin Klashtorni's serials  always portray a good-looking woman.

Konstantin comments: “I select the pictures myself, just because I like a gorgeous, classy woman to be on the cover of my album. It characterizes my music too, classy, clean and beautiful (at least I strive to make it this way).   I design all my covers myself, it's literally one man production process. My wife advises me sometimes, she has a great feel for music and art in general. She helps me to make a final decision concerning tracks order on CD and cover art.˝

Starter of Kool&Klean Volume IV is the song I Can Only Imagine. Klashtorni pushes with his aural guitar the term romantic to the next level. Dream Weaver revels in acoustic wellbeing of fine sounds. It's Time has a certain Peter White appeal with a strong synth sound support.

Konstantin's compositions fuse frequently acoustic and synthetic tones to a new whole. Thus the presumed natural flute tone twists surprisingly alienated by a midi keyboard's pitch bend, such observed on Lights. Another stylistic device, Konstantin makes ample use of, is the reverb effect. Misty Mountains is in good company with many other pieces.

When you release the entire burden of the overloaded accompaniment from Cruise, remains sonic gold in the piano line. Simplicity is an art form and Konstantin succumbs to the seductive sweetness of a rich sound range. Konstantin uses the attribute Amazing for the next song. Indeed his creative ingenuity seems to be endless.

Listening to Lately gives you the impression, that Konstantin bring great enthusiasm to his work and the end of the song might prolong at so much zeal, when the medium would set no limits. The gracious ebb and flow and effortless cohesion of Begin Again nicely fits into the overall concept of this album.

The floating effect also makes Feel Again accessible and easily digestible. Beautiful Surprise is the last song of this album with the same intoxicating and bouncy melody as its predecessors.

Konstantin Klashtorni works on Kool&Klean Volume IV with the tried and true method of transcending music again, which is so largely successful. Never change a running system.

 

 


 

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Album Information

Title: Volume IV
Artist: Kool&Klean
Year: 2013
Length: 0:49:38
Genre: General Jazz
Label: KvK Music

Tracks:
01 I Can Only Imagine [4:57]
02 Dream Weaver [4:56]
03 It's Time [4:23]
04 Lights [5:11]
05 Misty Mountains [4:32]
06 Cruise [3:57]
07 Amazing [4:06]
08 Lately [4:26]
09 Begin Again [4:32]
10 Feel Again [4:12]
11 Beautiful Surprise [4:26]