Simon Herody // Hard Lounge LP

フランス出身ドイツ在住のジャズ作家Simon Herodyが、2025年9月にオランダのRecords We Release Recordsからリリースしたレコードです。

レイドバックなエレクトロニック・ジャズ〜アンビエント・ジャズ8曲を収録。

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12" black vinyl. Ask us for digital files.

Tracklist:

1. Sunny Terasse 03:42
2. Table For Two 07:19
3. May I Join? 03:16
4. Dimmed Lights 06:50
5. City Lights 06:22
6. Kupka's Design 04:16
7. Sleep Tuff 03:29
8. Running Behind 02:45

Records We Release Records:

"RWR’s latest release comes straight from Berlin’s underground Electronic Jazz scene. Simon Herody, originally from the South of France but living in the German capital since 2020, delivers an eight-track suite of ambient-informed Jazz.

The album grew out of solo gigs in hotel lobbies, low-key half improvised sets where Simon blended sequenced electronics with live sax, clarinet and flute. These in-between spaces, half-public and half-private, set the tone for Hard Lounge: an eight-track trip that’s ambient enough to fade into the background, but rich enough to keep you engaged.

There’s a clear love for 80s New Age and Electronic Jazz, but it’s not just nostalgia — the album also channels leftfield Japanese Pop and Ambient. A big turning point was hearing Heisei No Oto (that killer compilation on Music From Memory) & Music For Dance & Theatre, Vol. 2, also released on MFM, which blew the doors wide open in terms of texture and mood.

While working shifts at Motif, a bar and record shop in Neukölln, Simon started deep-listening to these kinds of records, thinking about how sound can shape space and attention. Design and architecture trickled into the album’s artwork, hinting at a broader idea: that music, like furniture or lighting, can be part of how a space feels — part of the design. That blend of curiosity and immersion became the blueprint for Hard Lounge, a record that plays with presence, atmosphere and memory. "

Artist : Simon Herody

Label : Records We Release Records

cat no : RWR01LP