{"product_id":"pre-order-the-easy-underground-cd","title":"PRE-ORDER - \"The Easy Underground\" CD Edition","description":"\u003cp class=\"Body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eERIC HILTON\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e“The Easy Underground”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e(Limited CD Edition)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0); text-decoration: underline;\"\u003ePRE-ORDER'S WILL BE SHIPPED ON OR ABOUT NOV 20TH\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003eANY ORDERS THAT INCLUDE OTHER PRODUCTS \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003eWILL SHIP TOGETHER ON NOV 20th.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\"I'm intrigued by music that can exist both in the foreground and the background, you just put it on and let it vibe and seep in, in its own way. But if you listen very intently, off in your own little world - you'll get a lot out of it. And that’s a world I call The Easy Underground….” - Eric Hilton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eThe Easy Underground, Eric Hilton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003es stunning new studio album, out November 20th on Monserrat House Records, spirits listeners away to a breezily romantic world of whispered promises and slow-burned deep kisses. Hilton has spent decades architecting these types of sounds as a co-founder of the legendary downtempo electronic combo Thievery Corporation, and across a growing catalog of solo artist releases with flavors of ambient, space groove, acid jazz, and of course trip-hop. But for The Easy Underground, Hilton is reconstituting a genre outside his usual orbit - easy listening.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\"No one really thinks of easy listening music as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eunderground\"\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003ebut I do,” says the producer. \"Throughout the years of collecting, DJ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eing and curating music for Eighteenth Street Lounge and other spots, I always found the oddball stuff like soundtrack and easy listening records had something interesting about it. It was hard to find, a lot in those genres could be schlocky or corny. \u003cspan class=\"s5\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background: white;\"\u003eRarely, I\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s6\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s5\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; background: white;\"\u003ed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; background: white;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s5\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; background: white;\"\u003edig and find\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; background: white;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s5\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; background: white;\"\u003ea record that was\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; background: white;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s5\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; background: white;\"\u003eexotic and otherworldly;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; background: white;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s5\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; background: white;\"\u003especial. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eAnd I made The Easy Underground with that idea, and that spirit,” said Hilton.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eJoining Hilton for this project is longtime musical compadre Natalia Clavier, who sings on 9 of the album\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003es thirteen tracks, in multiple languages. Fans of Thievery Corporation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003es 2013 album Saudade will find The Easy Underground tonally adjacent, with flavors of bossa nova, Brazilian rhythms and female vocals present on both. But while the two records share some common ingredients, Hilton's solo recipe has deeper grooves, more space, and isn’t following an established blueprint. He\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003es taking the easy listening thing and pulling it into the underground.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eEasy listening is a very broad category, I think; it's really not even used as a musical category anymore, but like Sade is technically easy listening,” asserts Hilton. \"You know, all of her catalog as well as Avalon by Roxy Music, and a lot of Bryan Ferry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003es later solo work. All those records are so smooth, such a great listen, but there\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003es something smart and challenging about them too, in the songwriting, the playing and the production. I like making music that\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003es adjacent to that,” says the producer.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\"I could rock trip-hop records all day every day, I could do it in my sleep. But making a record like The Easy Underground is more challenging to me. I know I\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003em kind of scratching my own itch making a record like this, but I think if people come along and listen with me, they’ll get where it\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003es coming from.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eHilton did not envision The Easy Underground as a largely vocal album. Initially it began with instrumental tracks; “Soft Focus” (which sounds a bit like a track from Moon Safari, if Air was a Brazilian act, not French) as well as the propulsive title track “Alma Boa.” But as Hilton explains, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eAt some point I worked with Natalia on a couple songs that I wrote, \"Promise Me\" and \"Innocent Eyes,” and I started to rethink things, because in the beginning I thought it might be an instrumental record. I had a couple of nice work in progress Bossa tunes, and a musical sketch for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eCaminhos\" , which I felt needed some kind of vocal on it. So, then I started leaning towards singers, and frankly, Natalia was knocking it out of the park on so many songs that I just thought, well, I'm just going to go with this.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"IT\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: IT;\"\u003eClavier\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003es years long tenure performing live and recording with Thievery Corporation established her chameleon-like ability to change vocals styles, language, inflection, intensity - anything a given song required. And such is the case with her performances on The Easy Underground.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\"She always gets the vibe of what I'm doing, singing in multiple languages as she does in such a great way; but intriguingly, she sounded like a different person on every song. She sounds like one person on \"Promise Me\" and another person on \"Alma Boa\", the lead song. She versatility is such a benefit to this record. I actually was going to include a couple songs with other singers, but they just sounded out of place,” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"PT\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: PT;\"\u003eHilton relates.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eLook What You’ve Done” is a great example of Clavier\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003es strengths, delivering a blend of desire and desperation not unlike Portishead\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003es Beth Gibbons, but with decidedly less pathos (this is an easy listening record after all - kind of.) \"Innocent Eyes” is almost bluesy, until the sitar and strings drift in. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"ES-TRAD\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;\"\u003eMi Buenos Aires\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e” is perhaps the album\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003es most traditional\/ sounding track, and very personal to Clavier, the lyric professing love for her native land:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"ES-TRAD\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD;\"\u003e\"My Buenos Aires\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eDreaming of coming home to your landscape\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eChildhood Sundays and the fig tree\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eGrandmother\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003es loving hands\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eIt is springtime, smelling of jasmine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eReturning to you, returning to your streets\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eThe album closer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"PT\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: PT;\"\u003eVai Chegar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e” shakes like the ruffles on a samba dress, but Clavier\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003es vocal floats through the movement and provides the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eeasy”. Four instrumentals are sprinkled throughout the track listing, \"Silent Samba\" and \"Brooklyn Sicilians” joining the aforementioned \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eSoft Focus” and the title track, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-ansi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eThe Easy Underground”. The instruments serve as palate cleansers in a way, the lack of vocal requiring less attention from the listener - that is, \u003ci\u003eunless you want to listen intently to them\u003c\/i\u003e, and then these tracks too, take you somewhere. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eMake listening easy on yourself - ascend with Eric Hilton into The Easy Underground, out November 20th 2026 on Monserrat House, vinyl, CD and digital. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eric Hilton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47943472873633,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0622\/5090\/9857\/files\/CDbundle.jpg?v=1790544195","url":"https:\/\/store.erichilton.com\/products\/pre-order-the-easy-underground-cd","provider":"EricHilton","version":"1.0","type":"link"}