For New York-based producer and songwriter Jay Denes (the mastermind behind Blue Six), emotion is at the core of all of his musical creations. These are sensual songs, a means by which he is able to express and share the feelings that have shaped and touched his life.

Blue Six’s Beautiful Tomorrow is the first full-length artist album for the acclaimed New York/San Francisco based Naked Music, following a slew of successful 12-inch singles and CD compilations that have been revered as much for their enticing artwork as for their sexy grooves. The project sprung out of a conversation Jay Denes had with friend François Kevorkian, himself a legendary dance music producer and the proprietor of his own label Wave Music. Inspired by Kevorkian to make an album that defied convention, Denes returned to the studio, emerging with Blue Six - a sound that makes no compromises to outside pressures yet is anything but alienating. The first Blue Six EP would soon be released on Kevorkian’s Wave Music.

“In some ways I’m trying to make something that’s really related to soul music, dance music and peripherally related to jazz and pure electronic music,” observes Denes. “The hard part is to put it together in a way so that it doesn’t sound like a hodge-podge of things. I’m trying to make something that has its own aesthetic and its own internal set of rules and it obeys them - and I’m expanding what that is as I go along.”

Jay Denes not only wrote all the songs and most of the lyrics on the album, but he also engineered and mixed everything, a rarity in today’s modern music marketplace where few remain responsible for the total sound of their album from top to bottom. Multi-instrumentalist Mark Anthony Jones - a rising star in his own right - appears on a number of the songs on Beautiful Tomorrow, on guitar and vocals (as in the deep, yet simple stylings of “Yeah”) as does partner Dave Boonshoft (on bass). Six different female vocalists including Lisa Shaw and Catherine Russell among others, each with pleasingly distinct yet humble styles (i.e. no unnecessary vocal gymnastics) help Denes illustrate his emotional points in a unified way.

“It is my firm belief that all we retain from our lives as human beings are the feelings we’ve experienced,” Jay Denes himself writes in the liner notes to Beautiful Tomorrow, providing vivid proof within these 14 wonderfully crafted songs on the album. While you listen, close your eyes, open your heart and do as a wise man once said: “Don’t think - feel.”