SHAWN LEE’S PING PONG ORCHESTRA - VOICES AND CHOICES
STREET DATE: 01/30/2007
In Shawn Lee’s world Ennio Morricone dances
with Esquivel and Gainsbourg as spaghetti
western guitars and harmonica’s ride fat drum
breaks accompanied by vibes, lush strings, and
piano. On Voices and Choices Lee's signature
style moody instrumentals are accompanied
by vocals for the first time in four albums.
Full songs and instrumental textures are nods to classic producers David
Axelrod and Charles Stepney who used choir-like walls of vocal to create
their big productions. Ubiquity label mate Nino Moschella joins Lee on
the rock n’soul epic “Kiss The Sky”, while Ohmega Watts waxes positive
lyrical on “The Glass Hour Effect.” Instrumentals “JW” and “Song For David”
are just begging for an accompanying movie to match the cinematic
sounds, while “Tense Bossa” and “Glass Act” feature subtle vocal parts to
heighten the spy-theme tension.
Releases by Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra started off as an
experiment. Multi-instrumentalist and record collector Lee was obsessed
by vintage library records and wanted to see if he could recreate their
soundtrack-worthy sounds in his curio-shop-like London studio. Library
records were originally produced to provide instrumental musical backing
for TV, film, radio and advertising. Specific library records have become
highly collectable, and are favored by DJs and producers for the occasional
drum break, sample, or funk track.
Lee’s idea was to make full-length library albums that were good from start
to finish and equally listenable at home as they might also be DJ friendly.
Unsure of how commercially successful these records would be, the first
three albums were released in limited pressings and with only a very minor
publicity push. However, not only did Lee succeed in recreating the vibe of
classic library records, he also attracted the interest of advertisers and
producers with tracks being used in commercials for BMW and Jaguar, in
TV shows like Malcolm in the Middle, Lost, Desperate Housewives,
and Boston Legal, in the trailer for the forthcoming Oceans 13 movie,
and the soundtrack to The Break Up.
He was also asked to score the entire soundtrack to the
highly controversial Rock Star video game Bully (nominated
for game Best Original Score) and Save Angel Hope, a
movie which will be released in 2007.
Inspired by the success of his instrumental albums Shawn
Lee raises the stakes on Voices and Choices, which follows
the release of the Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra vs. Nino
Moschella EP (featuring collaborations and remixes from
both artists and a remix by Mark Pritchard.) Lee is planning
on taking the Ping Pong Orchestra live in 2007 and is already
working on a new album of all pop song cover versions.
As a multi-instrumentalist and singer Shawn Lee has played
and recorded with a diverse range of artists including Psapp,
Coldcut, Leeann Rhimes, Martina Mcbride, UNKLE, Tony
Joe White, Chateau flight, The Dust Brothers, St. Etienne,
Jeff Buckley, Bomb the Bass, The Spice Girls, and
Natasha Atlas not to mention solo records for Talkin Loud,
Wall of Sound imprint We Love You and BBE. He is also
known to breaks n'beats collectors as the man behind "The
Ape Breaks" and "Planet of the Breaks" series which were
sampled by everyone from Guru to The Gorillaz.
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