‘Tomorrow Never Was’ marks the first artist album release in Touchstone’s compact yet illustrious history and sees Engin ‘Majera’ Ogutveren deliver an 11-track-strong body of music to the label’s door.
The Australian’s most recent EP release ‘Till We Meet Again’/’Remember When’ drew a pantheon of heavyweight spinning support, lit up the Beatport chart, generated a stellar fan reaction & bagged a 9/10 DJ Mag UK Single of Month review.
With his leitmotif of wistfully, enigmatically titled (and sounding) tracks, Melbourne’s Majera now cultivates that singles success into a trance/progressive/trance-progressive tipped long-player. ‘Tomorrow Never Was’ is an album that will enrapture on first listen, but through its endless repeat-listen intricacy has all the makings of a minor classic in its own right.
Throughout its 11 original tracks, 3 bonus remixes and close to 2 hours of soundcraft, ‘Tomorrow’ Never Was’ takes its musical cues from the proverbial North, South, East & West of trance music.
The album begins in the 100bpm-ish lounge-core realm, with atmosphere-inducing tracks like the lilting ‘Find Your Way’, the deeper sonic prowl of ‘Nothing Is Forever’ & ‘Before You Go’s glacially cool ether. Traversing into club mode, it hikes the progressive foothills with the otherworldly catchment of ‘Remember When’. ‘Drawn To Depth’ and ‘Able To Forget’ meanwhile have the album dipping into ravines that foreshadow altogether darker sonic matter.
Boxing clever with its styles, ‘Tomorrow’ also delivers no small amount of floor stridence, exemplified by the tech-trance thrust of ‘Te Echo De Menos’ and the starkly bleeping tubular haunt of ‘Enola’s Chorus’. Latterly it scales loftily uplifting heights with tracks like ‘No Turning Back’, the album’s spiritually anthemic title track and ‘Till We Meet Again’ (a “chest swelling” number said DJ Mag, that was “goddamn lump-in-the-throat big ‘n’ gorgeous!”).
The bonus edition of the album also features far-and-wide remixes of Majera’s ‘Velvet Sun’, ‘Nothing Is Forever’ and ‘Te Echo’, with Moonsouls, Matt Bukowski and Walsh & McAuley all delivering rework radiance.
Vastly atmospheric and unceasingly evocative, ‘Tomorrow Never Was’ is also an album that is painstakingly crafted and intricately, infinitely complex.
Majera – Tomorrow Never Was is out on December 1st 2014!
Order your copy at iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/tomorrow-never-was/id937274967
Tracklist:
01. Find Your Way
02. Nothing Is Forever
03. Remember When
04. Able To Forget
05. Drawn To Depth
06. Enola’s Chorus
07. Te Echo De Menos
08. Till We Meet Again
09. Tomorrow Never Was
10. No Turning Back
11. Before You Go
Bonus Tracks:
12. Velvet Sun (Moonsouls Remix)
13. Nothing Is Forever (Matt Bukovski Remix)
14. Te Echo De Menos (Walsh & McAuley Remix)
