Cosmic Gate & Andy Duguid – It’s Simple

By Tim Stark • 12 months ago

May
2023

If only it were that ‘Simple’! The final number to be taken from Cosmic Gate’s epic twin-album ‘MOSAIIK’ odyssey is a collaboration that’s been on the cards for years.

Nic, Bossi and Andy’s musical paths first crossed, when Duguid remixed ‘Not Enough Time’, during CGs ‘Sign Of The Times’ era. All parties have been on major stylistic journeys since, probably no better illustrated than by the imaginative depths and lyrically thought-provoking ends to which ‘MOSAIIK’ has reached. Thus, it’s no great surprise that it became their natural point of convergence. Through it, the three found a track idea that spoke equally to all … and that was ‘It’s Simple’.

It’s no coincidence that artistically, ‘It’s Simple’ is the swansong to follow MOSAIIK’s penultimate release, ‘Mirador’. Among the albums’ 18 pieces, there are no two that better characterise the LPs thematic range. While ‘Mirador’s powerful instrumentalism had both eyes trained on the clubfloor, ‘It’s Simple’ is the essence of the albums’ alternative, boundary pushing ‘otherness’.

The frayed, almost fractured feel of its remarkable vocals, have an unmistakable Röyksopp-ian edge to them. Lamenting, plaintive and often wrought, their emotional tone is as every bit as authentic as it is breathtakingly affecting. With their studio work, the three echo that with fluttering sub-melodies, pulsating bass, redolent pianoforte, and synths that hover in the production’s midrange. Delivering its final, emotionally annihilating masterstroke, they draw on violin strings that live long in the mind … but longer still in the heart.

‘Simple’ by name, anything but by its nature, there can be no more fitting conclusion to ‘MOSAIIK’s extraordinary arc than ‘It’s Simple’. It releases today through all good streaming and sales platforms [https://blackhole.lnk.to/itssimple].

Nic & Bossi have supplied new details of the third phase of ‘MOSAIIK – C2’s album tour. Tickets for all the tour’s events are available now through this link (https://cosmic-gate.de/tour-dates/).

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Cosmic Gate MOSAIIK Chapter Two Album Tour: Phase Three
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MAY 12                      Stereo Live                                  Dallas, TX
MAY 19                      EDC                                              Las Vegas, NV
MAY 26                      Joshua Brooks                           Manchester, UK
MAY 28                      Proton                                          Stuttgart, DE
JUN 01                      Gagarin Club                               Tel Aviv, IR
JUN 02                      Aseven                                         Berlin, DE

JUN 03 Mission Festival Zurich, CH
JUN 09 Liquid Madison, WI

JUN 10 The Fruit Durham, NC

JUN 16                       Union Rooftop                            Minneapolis, MN
JUN 17                      Elektricity                                     Pontiac, MI
JUN 22                      Electric Forest*                           Rothbury, MI

JUN 24 Biggest Disco Naas, IR
JUL 01 Euforia Festival Boszkowo, PL

JUL 02                       A State Of Trance                   London, UK
JUL 08                       Beats For Love                           Ostrava, CR
JUL 21                       Young Island Fest                      Bacau, RO

JUL 23                       Tomorrowland                            Boom, BE
JUL 23                       Parookaville                                Weeze, DE
JUL 28                       Ora                                               Seattle, WA

JUL 29 45 East Portland, OR

AUG 04 Nova San Diego, CA

AUG 12 Moonrise Festival Baltimore, MD

AUG 18 Harbor Event Centre Vancouver, BC

AUG 24 Sky Salt Lake City, UT

AUG 25 Exchange Los Angeles, CA
AUG 26 Palace Theatre Calgary, AB

SEP 09 Elsewhere Rooftop* New York, NY
OCT 21 Transmission* Bangkok, TH

Cosmic Gate – MOSAIIK – Chapter Two OUT NOW!
01: Cosmic Gate & Diana Miro – Hear Me Out
02: Cosmic Gate & Nathan Nicholson – Follow You Anywhere
03: Cosmic Gate & Gid Sedgwick – Emotions Of Color
04: Cosmic Gate & Nathan Nicholson – Just The Beginning
05: Cosmic Gate & Andy Duguid – It’s Simple
06: Cosmic Gate – Mirador
07: Cosmic Gate & Olivia Sebastianelli – We Got The Fire
08: Cosmic Gate & Greenhaven DJs – Retrospection
09: Cosmic Gate & Diana Miro – Blame (Pavel Khvaleev Remix)