Wally Badarou Colors Of Silence

• Wally Badarou – Dance In The Dust
• Wally Badarou – Amber Whispers
• Wally Badarou – Where Were We
• Wally Badarou – The Lights Of Kinshasa
• Wally Badarou – Pictures Of You
• Wally Badarou – Serendipity For Two
• Wally Badarou – Smiles By The Millions
• Wally Badarou – Higher Still
• Wally Badarou – Oriental
• Wally Badarou – Days To Wonder
• Wally Badarou – Dawn Of Europa
• Wally Badarou – Crystal Falls
• Wally Badarou – Purple Lines

• 1. Dance In The Dust
• 2. Amber Whispers
• 3. Where Were We
• 4. The Lights Of Kinshasa
• 5. Pictures Of You
• 6. Serendipity For Two
• 7. Smiles By The Millions
• 8. Higher Still
• 9. Oriental
• 10. Days To Wonder
• 11. Dawn Of Europa
• 12. Crystal Falls
• 13. Purple Lines

Synth pioneer and musical polymath, Wally Badarou is a genius. But you know that already. A vinyl version of his majes]c Colors Of Silence has been craved by the Balearic cognoscen] ever since its low-key 2001 release. Indeed, when we first started work on Be With, we asked some pals with exquisite taste what their dream release would be. We asked Balearic legend Moonboots and, without hesita]on, he said Colors Of Silence by Wally Badarou. We didn't know Wally had made this album. And most still don't. But that's about to change.

Colors Of Silence is ostensibly a new age album. As ever though, Wally's sophisticated synth textures and expressive keyboard runs are so full of character, so full of life, that this work of art transcends any easy genre categorisation. It's simply stunning, throughout. It sounds like A.r.t. Wilson or Suzanne Kras, with traces of CFCF and Jonny Nash. But it was made a good decade earlier than the work of these modern giants. Sometimes, it doesn't seem far from some Larry Heard albums.