Time for the first album on Prologue ever. There was only one artist they could think about to do that: Cio D´Or. Her sets Emotional, extravagant and charismatic. She doesn´t just play music, she lives it. At 17 she was already playing congas in a 7-person jazz band, and her staged dance choreographies were inspired by the likes of Brian Eno and David Byrne. Encounters with Acid Maria, Electric Indigo ( whom she joined for Female Pressure), Tobi Neumann and Richard Bartz let to her infamous residency at the legendary Munich club „Ultraschall“, while she also started to run her own night „Nachtwind“ in Woandersclub and Harry Klein. Thus began her autodidactic studies of sound technology. She sampled everything and everywhere. Kitted out with minidisk and MPC 2000 she travelled several times to the Sinai. She selects her co-productions according to musical proximity and friendship – Donato Dozzy, Paul Brtschitsch and Gabriel Ananda. Most of the album consists of Cio‘s melodic minimal stylings, with deft but subtle touches of delay and reverb lending themselves to her trippy sound that makes up different kinds of fabric, from Brokat to Pailletten and Wildseide. Prologue also won the lucky draw with upcoming “Die Faser” remixes by Sleeparchive, Donato Dozzy, Milton Bradley, Pendel Coven, Samuli Kemppi, and Claudio PRC. In addition VJ Heiligenblut visualized “Goldbrokat‘. Cio also peppered the debut with three short beatless cuts („Zellulose Wind“, „Angora“ and „Seide“), adding to the drama for listeners who will want to take the album in from start to finish. Cio´s famous encouraging passion united in “Die Faser” creates a deep transparent sound architecture with the right sense of love and creativity for electronic music experiences – as expected – including a breath of ambient feelings and encapsulation into the other worlds. Lie down and release yourself to the touch of our Cio D´Or

Minimaland Feedback: Die Faser starts strong from the start. As I was listening the Intro track i already noticed that this would be a great album. Cio D’or sounds are completely different from everything else. While you’re feeling a great sense of underground music, full of strong basslines and hypnotic samples, you’re also feeling all her love for music. The way she builds her tracks are indistinguishable, and tracks like “Goldbrokat”, “Brokat” or “Pailletten” will be the delight of everybody in the dancefloors, while tracks like “Angora” or “Zellulose Wind” bring harmony to the album. For me the album of the year and a really good surprise!

1. Zellulose Wind (Intro)
2. Goldbrokat Cio D’Or
3. Mohair (The True Blue)
4. Angora (Mystic)
5. Brokat
6. Organza (Transparent Dub)
7. Seide (Tranenensalz!)
8. Pailletten
9. Samt
10. Cotton (La Petite Geisha)
11. Wildseide
12. Pailletten (Bonbonus)

Label: Prologue
Release Date: 7th December 2009
Useful links http://www.ciodor.de/
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Cio+D%27or