With new album ‘Blueskywell’, Swiss duo Filewile makes the transition from laptop duo to a full dub driven band as producers Dustbowl (Andreas Ryser) and Dejot (Daniel Jakob) are joined by singer Joy Frempong and bassist Mago Flueck.

Integrating the raw power of their live performances, Filewile embraced the imperfections of analogue instrumentation, tape machine and the iconic Space Echo for the follow up to debut album ‘Nassau Massage’. At the same time the human voice has moved centre stage – Joy Frempong’s love of experimental lyrics and song move between childlike wordplay and the abyss of human existence.

Brooklyn born rhyme artist RQM returns for two tracks on this album. RQM further enhances the album’s genre bending quality and the impossibility to pin the sound to any particular country.

In parts ‘Blueskywell’ flirts with mainstream radio appeal by weaving catchy harmonies and moving beats into something resembling pop music – only to break into dance music, rock or experimental jazz. ‘Blueskywell’ is worthy of the term album: rather than being a compilation of one band’s tracks, it is a congruent whole – an exciting excursion into a world of music. A world full of bass and multi facetted vocalizing. Dabbling with the freakish, psychedelic and experimental but without succumbing to the outright weird. Filewile remain a dance act, but they disguise it well.