Artist:The Gentle People
Song:Journey
Album:Soundtracks for Living
The Gentle People is a mix of ambient electronic instrumental music with lounge music vocals. The music is supposed to be dreamlike. There is a market for this sort of thing in clubs. The guy behind this is British DJ and producer Richard "Aphex Twin" James. He releases plenty of music on his label Rephlex Records. It's mostly instrumental music that I would describe as a contemporary version of 101 Strings. For The Gentle People, he found four singers in Los Angeles who were interested in adding vocals to his electronic music. They were Douglas "Dougee Dimensional" Stoddard, Marcelle "Laurie Lemans" Laurence, Sarah "Honeymink" Simonon and Jeremy "Valentine Carnelian" Leahy. I presume the pseudonyms are to make them seem exotic. Journey was the first single in 1995. It features a guest singer identified as Lady Pleiades. The single was ten minutes long with a vocal and instrumental. The single did well enough that The Gentle People released the 1996 album Soundtracks for Living. The version of Journey on the album is about four minutes long. The Gentle People recorded one more album in 1999. And then they went their separate ways though they have occasionally reunited to record singles. Here's the video for Journey by The Gentle People.
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