Summer. Sunshine. Balmy weather. Mellow moments. Quiet beauty. Lazy afternoons. Breezy sunsets. Sultry nights.

The good life – Welcome to the lounge experience as soundtracked by Sven van Hees. Calypso is the work of Sven Van Hees.

It’s totally true to his nature and, although the album acknowledges ’70s fusion icons like Quincy Jones and Lonnie Liston Smith, it creates a world completely its own – a singular dreamscape for all of us to wallow around in.

Centrered around the groove, Calypso’s eleven tracks take up the Sven van Hees story were Gemini left it, creating a much-needed private space of leisure and introspection, of inner peace and enticing pleasure.

The tracklisting:

• suspension on disbelief
• black beans & castro queens
• humming birds
• what do you see ?
• born to be mild
• movin’ on
• konnichi wa-wah
• flying high on borrowed wings
• calypso
• sun of a beach
• bypass by birth

• June 14,2002
• sven van hees