Tosca – Dehli9

Listening to "Mango di Bango" brought this to mind: "Ricky, Ricky, Ricky, can't you see — somehow your words just hypnotize me..."

First off, my fetish for this album started with the textile covered digipack, a funny cover with R. Dorfmeister and R. Huber their heads in the tree. I bought a second hand copy so I am resisting the temptation to bleach clean the dirty cover... Nonetheless, it's a very classy design!

CD1 is your typical Tosca indeed. Very much chilled as usual!
Anna Clementi's vocals on "Oscar" are a great starter.
"Me & Yoko" was slow and weird.
"Gute Laune" is a beautiful dubby disco reggae journey
I love the zang from Zinger on "Wonderful"!

CD2 is soft and slow and envelops you. It is reminescent of some Harold Budd's piano works here and there. It's a shame that the sound saturates too much in some songs and feels like inside a bottle for others... It feels like they put on one CD songs that they know they could put on a stand-alone album, however, it works for me and I really consider it like a bonus CD.
If you want to chill get on CD1, if you want to meditate or close your eyes and drift away, put on CD2.

Did anyone buy this CD recently and receive the wrong CD in the post??

I only have CD2, it's all very ambient, piano based stuff. Nice enough to drift off to, but nothing really special.

A sidenote: Notice how there's a track called "La Vendeuse Des Chaussures Des Femmes Part 1," which means there should be Part Two: to my knowledge, it has been released.

From the K7 (K7 is the record company's name) Site:
"In response to demands from our fans, !K7 is starting to release some of it's material in MP3 format...
The MP3 version of this album contains:
- A bonus track, La Vendeuse des Chaussures des Femmes Part 2 in MP3 format."
This was discovered using an older cache of K7's site - K7 has undergone a redesign and have dropped many extra features for Tosca, including any hints as to whether Part 2 whill be included with the MP3 purchase anymore.

I personally prefer CD2 as this has more of the 'warm analog' sound so familiar with both K&D and Tosca releases. I feel that the first CD, while first rate, is a little more static and cold. This is my least favorite of any of the Tosca and K&D releases.

Definitely a top quality Tosca release.
CD1 is absolutely delicious, going smoothly from classy to funky to mellow.
I wasn't that impressed with CD2, however.

This release should be seen as a single CD with a bonus CD, I thought the price was low intil i realised that CD1 is the normal TOSCA style and VERY GOOD too! The second bonus CD is very different and slow pianobased tracks...also good but not very much Tosca....