The main source of inspiration for this album are three different, but related, musical genres:
The first is what is today referred to as "Space Age Pop" or "Bachelor Pad Music". That's a kind of music from the 50's/60's that hi-fi system owners used to impress friends with stereo effects and that served mainly as background to recreational activities. It was a sort of jazz-inspired go-go music that sometimes had little shape and made little sense, based on just a few musical ideas and a riff that were left in the more or less capable hands of the musicians involved.
The second genre is that of the typical 60's soundtracks to TV series and sometimes movies, with a back then revolutionary and for-young-hip-people sound inspired by real jazz.
The third and final genre is what was played live - again jazzy sounding and again during the 60's - in bars and pubs in cities like New York or Paris in the areas where young intellectuals and artists met and music could get a bit more daring.
These kinds of music were the starting point for this work, I then added anything that struck my fancy on top, as I always do.
I hope you'll enjoy the result :)
Mac
