Cocoanut Groove – Walking To Madeleine Street

the 80s was the end of analogy in music in more than just one term. instruments were digitized, recordings were digitized and in the end the music medium itself was digitized. with the birth of the cd the pop culture as an overall artistic concept got reduced to auditory pleasure only. „cover art“ became a meaningless term and music fans, ready and willing to pay a few bucks more for original pressings in gatefold sleeves and with inserts or other gimmicks were left behind with a little piece of plastic and tiny booklets you need a magnifying glass for to read. the holistic concept of pop culture got lost and bereft of its visual part the emotional value of a cd became null. since there is no audible between a factory-produced cd and a home-burned, hand-labeled copy, why bother spending too much money on it? and today with the internet and tiny mp3-players that can hold more than one day of music and not just 74 minutes the physical medium is bound to become extinct.
Cocoanut Groove's debut single "End of the summer on Bookbinder Road" was an old fashioned single in its very original meaning. a single song on one side and another single song on the other side. and even though both songs, "End of the summer on Bookbinder Road" and „Shadow“ are great songs it was „Walking To Madeleine Street“, one of the bonus songs that came with the download version of the record on all relevant internet blogs that enthused me right from the beginning. now, with Olov Antonsson's debut full length „Madeleine Street“ finally out it is also available in a physical form.
to describe Cocoanut Groove's music in a few words: a little more simon-and-garfunkelish version of Kings Of Convenience with Nico singing.
the combination of a laid back acoustic guitar and a little moony vocals paint a nice picture of early summer insouciance and infatuation; of blooming trees, singing birds, green lawns and a cloudless sky. it invites you to just sit down and close your, to forget the next appointment and the city around you, to just listen to the song and daydream. after all this song seems to be made to end up on an mp3-player and to be taken along anywhere and everywhere.

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