Craig Connelly 'A Sharper Edge': Album Showcase
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Whether the three years since Craig Connelly album-debuted with ‘One Second Closer’ feels long or brief is almost academic. For Craig himself the duration’s provided the ultimate in transformative phases, seeing him punch up from promising name to major contender. With the arenas and festivals getting bigger and his music drawing evermore DJ air & set time though comes ever-greater expectation. That brings us to the ultimate of qualifiers: ‘A Sharper Edge’. Following the 8-million-Spotify-streams-and-counting ‘One Second Closer’, the album is another implicitly titled collection, alluding to Craig’s unlike-any-other approach.
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At the core of its production lies something that is the result of - if not quite soul searching by Craig, then certainly some introspection. Whilst other artists root their album biases in the instrumental or the vocal, or a particular stylistic bandwidth, Craig composed his down four very specific thematic lines.
“I wanted to try a non-traditional approach to this album, says the Manchester born-and-based DJ, and I thought a little pre-production mental exercise might give me some insight. So before ‘A Sharper Edge’s day-one, I crunched what seemed important in my life and more and more four words kept popping back. So when I sat down to compose each track, I tried to bring one of the four - Destiny, Energy, Travel or Optimism to my foreground and subsequently channel it into that piece of music. Whilst all the tracks represent a more radio or club-focused sound, everyone was designed to have its own story - regardless of whether it has lyrics or not. Even the instrumentals were written with the intention of being anchored in a strong human emotion or feeling.”
That ‘A Sharper Edge’ spans trance’s stylistic spectrum and breaks down evenly into seven vocals and seven instrumentals is significantly less by design and more by the innateness of Craig’s process. While never absolute, the tracks’ titles offer prime indicators of which theme drove them.
Likely, ‘California’ and ‘Tranceatlantic’ are amongst those that have their mental foundations in Travel, whilst ‘Earth Dimension C-137’ and current single ‘Time Machine’ similarly channel it - albeit less terrestrially. Destiny is most clearly touched on with ‘Life Half Lived’ (spiritually sung by Karina Ramage) and Cammie Robinson’s wondrously carefree turn on ‘Run Away’. The album’s overture ‘Sonic Grey’ and the bassy judder of ‘Everyone Loves A Triplet’ meanwhile address it in more opaque fashions.
There are no prizes for surmising that Craig’s exercising his Energy id on ‘Watch The Way You Move’, ‘The Fire’ and ‘Anything Like You’. The tracks respectively feature vocal and co-production collaborations with Natalie Major, Peter Steele and Alex Holmes. The album is at its most Optimism-driven on ‘What Are You Waiting For’, ‘Inhale’ (alongside Will Rees) and with the Siskin (Sue McLaren & Susan Chesterton new vocal sisterhood) sung ‘All For Love’. Concludes Craig: “this album is the biggest and most rewarding body of music I’ve ever produced, I’ve never felt as satisfied with any project as I do with this one. I would love for my fans to walk away from this record with a sense they just heard something which resonated with their life experiences, and they can feel optimistic about the future”.
Tracklist of album
01. Craig Connelly - Sonic Grey
02. Craig Connelly featuring Tara Louise - Time Machine
03. Craig Connelly - California
04. Craig Connelly featuring Karina Ramage - Life Half Lived
05. Craig Connelly - Earth Dimension C-137
06. Craig Connelly featuring Natalie Major - Watch The Way You Move
07. Craig Connelly - Everyone Loves A Triplet
08. Craig Connelly featuring Tara Louise - What Are You Waiting For
09. Craig Connelly & Peter Steele - The Fire
10. Craig Connelly featuring Alex Holmes - Anything Like You
11. Craig Connelly & Factor B - Tranceatlantic
12. Craig Connelly & Siskin - All For Love
13. Craig Connelly & Will Rees - Inhale
14. Craig Connelly featuring Cammie Robinson - Run Away
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Craig Connelly Is a trance God!!!!!!!!!!!!!
24:30 perfect track wooow🌌🕺
Well damn, I love this album 💗 definitely going to buy it 👍🏽
Craig Connelly doing the very best of vocal trance right now!
i love this set !
Amazing 😉!!A great album with good sound,colorful.Craig Connelly Dj is a sound witch I admire 👍🔥🥰. Thank you very much Black Hole Recordings 😍😇💕
❤❤❤Super!!!!!!!
Album is great front to back well done Craig
I hadn't heard Craig's music before stumbling across your channel, but I love it! Awesome set
Check out Live at Subculture LA 2019
@@TRAUMAHAWK77 something like Cold Blue
Since I found 1 of his sets on luminosity I can't stop listening to his stuff ,quality👌
and the lyrics ..... is kinda ....something ... :)
emotional album great craig connelly
Cool!!!! 👍 👍 👍 👍
Great Job Craig!
C.mon craig you did it again i have heard a few sets in my life yours is 1 of best 👌👌
I truly believe we are in the Golden Age of Trance. I hope it lasts forever.
Bastante bien este álbum..
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Anjunabeat thanks
Super Mega !!!! 😀👍🇵🇱
7:30 wow
Amazing album, congratz!
Sort out wat u want to do! X
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Ok duality feel
Thanks 4 the help this week truly itz been really helpful, Monday if u want k
U know where I am k
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C u Monday!
Can't get "Life Half Lived" out of my head. This Club Mix sure brings the track to another level!!
Craig Connelly is the King of Trance!🖤🖤🖤
It's a pleasure watching this guy doing his "job", u can see that he really loves what he does,it's his passion,not for money like Armin's EDC . Craig's mission is to bring us all together back to the good times of real Trance and I would say that he's on a very good way to succeed.
Respect from Austria.
Enjoyed this thank u 🎶🤗🎶🔥🎧
Sam was OK great help thank u friend x
42: 48 genial ....al igual que toda su musica
Teaching myself to shhhweps
Amazing .. greatings from Sweden in this hard times, hope u all doing well out there.❤❤
All love from us to you from here.😘
Trust step 1 up then other bak and forth solve lot ov problems 4 now sort it out x
U gonna have to sum time
Limp biscuit get
melting my head off every time you upload
Amazing track!!... 39:28
Craig Connelly ft. Tara Louise - What are you waiting for
Ta enjoyed that sweetie x
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U here Monday or wat?
Pop goes the weasel
Awesome
Never tell on u x
X jack
14:00 - is it an upcoming JOC remix?
C u ltr x
U OK x
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Con aqua x
i don't know anything about what you doing ... but I can guess that ..you are good to teach people about ....something ... just two mins ..i learn from you about the ....background behind you ... plus with your happy energy..... so , I got some in my head ..lol ... thanks ..
very Good!
Im so waited All For Love becausde of Sue McLAren, but after the second minute theres no more vocals and the track is jut boring, long for me :/. Im disappointed.
L u x
I 'm jeaulous you.... lol... your device....or reciever for senses ...seems way too perfect ...
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Between u and I x
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me ...do u think I would shy...? if Iwish to learn things ....lol .... I open-minded .... :)
Leave b call me monday
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Trust 4 once in ur effin life k x