Country : U.S.A Style : World Music , Jazz World , Blues
Tracklist :
01. Okra 02. Rain Shower 03. Natchez Shopping Blues 04. Your Lips 05. Harlem Country Girl 06. Zora 07. Young Mama 08. Bubber (If Only) (Olu Dara / Mayanna Lee) 09. Father Blues 10. Jungle Jay (Olu Dara / Nas) 11. Kiane
Origine du Groupe : Italia Style : Folk , Jazz World Sortie : 2012
From http://www.oldeuropacafe.com Somewhere between the melodic folk-inflected charm of Italian 60’s songwriters and the cabaret swoon of French chansonniers, Roma Amor’s new album is instinctively romantic and sophisticated. This album will seduce you with its summer-evening mellowness before breaking your heart with its beautifully sensual croon. Wonderful ballads and torch songs about love inspired by the epic, fatalistic rugged grandeur of Aznavour, Brel, Piaf, and 60’s Italian songwriters, though in a much quieter and more delicate setting. The album is sung in Italian with some French touches and the songs are from Roma Amor’s own harvest. The result isn't experimental or innovative, but an acoustic and intimate album for fans of well-crafted singer-songwriting.
Tracklist : 1. Occhi Neri 2. Mon Amour 3. Le Coeur Au Chaud 4. A Te Che Mi Vinci 5. Disertore 6. Euforia 7. La Concièrge 8. Mélancolie 9. Elle Est Seule 10. Sensualità 11. Fuoco Sottile 12. Madrigale
Avec une petite dizaine d'albums à son actif, et des collaborations prestigieuses (Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo, ou encore Orlando Cachaito López), Roberto Fonseca fait figure d'incontournable de la musique cubaine actuelle. Sur son nouvel album « Yo », le pianiste de La Havane évolue toujours sur une base cubaine tout en s'envolant très souvent vers l'Afrique, en compagnie de Baba Sissoko au n'goni, Sekou Kouyate à la kora, ou la chanteuse Fatoumata Diawara. Ils sont d'ailleurs réunis sur la merveilleuse communion africo-cubaine « Bibisa ». On retrouve aussi le chanteur Assane Mboup, de l'Orchestra Baobab, sur « Quien Soy yo », et plus surprenant, Faudel « le petit prince du raï », qui pose ses mélismes sur le très free « Chabani ». Mais Fonseca peut aussi prendre un virage rock avec une kora quasi Sanatanesque sur « JMF », ou cinématique avec un orgue Hammond très 70's sur « Rachel ». On n'oubliera pas « Mi Negra Ave Maria », composé avec sa maman Mercedes Cortés, illuminé par le spoken word de Mike Ladd. Un album de grande classe, d'une fluidité remarquable pour notre plus grand plaisir !
Tracklist : 01. Roberto Fonseca - 80's (6:24) 02. Roberto Fonseca - Bibisa (4:33) 03. Roberto Fonseca - Mi Negra Ave Maria (5:21) 04. Roberto Fonseca - 7 Rayos (5:29) 05. Roberto Fonseca - El Sonadoresta Cansado (5:05) 06. Roberto Fonseca - Chabani (5:11) 07. Roberto Fonseca - Gnawa Stop (5:17) 08. Roberto Fonseca - El Mayor (1:22) 09. Roberto Fonseca - JMF (4:49) 10. Roberto Fonseca - Asi Es La Vida (4:31) 11. Roberto Fonseca - Quien Soy Yo (3:42) 12. Roberto Fonseca - Rachel (3:37) 13. Roberto Fonseca - Bibisa (Remix) (4:08) 14. Roberto Fonseca - 80's (Remix) (3:56)
Where does jazz stop and world music start? The boundaries are getting more blurred by the minute. We’re all postmodernists now, and many musicians under fifty reflect a range of influences beyond those traditionally associated with their own core style. Some, like French-Vietnamese guitarist Nguyen Le, are so polyglot as to be practically beyond category.
Le started out down the cultural miscenegation road with his first band, the multi-ethnic Ultramarine, whose 1989 album, De, was named World Music Album of the Year by the radical French newspaper Liberation. He’s continued to mix it up ever since—prominent genre-benders he’s worked with include Miroslav Vitous, Trilok Gurtu, David Liebman, Paul McCandless, Peter Erskine and Mino Cinelu. In the late 1990s Le became increasingly interested in Maghrebi music, working with Algerian singers Safy Boutella and Cheb Mami, and in 1998 he brought Maghrebi and Vietnamese musicians together on the album Maghrebi & Friends.
None of this, however, can prepare you for the galaxy of sound sources on Homescape, a series of alternating duets with Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu and Tunisian oud player Dhafer Youssef. Some of these sources are developed and explored, others are referred to only in passing, and they include—but aren’t limited to—post-Hendrix rock, Milesian harmon-mute free improv, Maghrebi trance music, Ellingtonia, ambient, a Papua New Guinea vocal choir (sampled and replayed backwards), Delta blues, Vietnamese folk tunes, flamenco, Iranian modes, a Sardinian choir, Australian aboriginal ritual music, French chanson, Gregorian chant, and Indonesian gamelan/gong music.
Guitars, trumpet/flugelhorn and oud aside, the music is generated by loops, samples and overdubs, and the entire heavily post-produced album was recorded and mixed in Le’s Paris apartment – since 2003, his friends and neighbours Fresu and Youssef have been dropping by to home-record. The duets with Fresu are typically in free-improv mode (the exception being Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn’s lovely “Chelsea Bridge”), while the Youssef duets tend to be song or structure-based.
In the main sunny and joyful, though not without some darker and more abrasive moments, the fifteen tracks—average length three minutes, a handful six or seven—resemble a series of round-the-world postcards sent by Le, who mixed and post-produced everything solo, to his collaborators. As a soundtrack to an evening communing with the big bamboo, the exotic and the very exotic drifting in and out of the mix, it’s rich, colourful and beguiling.
Tracklist : 1 - Stranieri (Paolo Fresu / Nguyên Lê) (06:00) 2 - Byzance (Dhafer Youssef / Nguyên Lê) (04:25) 3 - Muqqam (Dhafer Youssef) (02:44) 4 - Mali Iwa (Nguyên Lê) (06:27) 5 - Zafaran (Dhafer Youssef / Nguyen Le) (06:02) 6 - Domus de Janas (Paolo Fresu / Nguyên Lê) (02:18) 7 – Kithara (Dhafer Youssef) (02:18) 8 - Chelsea Bridge (Billy Strayhorn) (03:00) 9 - Safina (Dhafer Youssef / Nguyên Lê) (03:27) 10 - Des Pres (Paolo Fresu / Nguyên Lê) (02:19) 11 - Thang Long (Nguyên Lê) (05:33) 12 - Neon (Paolo Fresu / Nguyên Lê) (03:12) 13 - Mangustao (Dominique Borker) (07:26) 14 - Lacrima Christi (Paolo Fresu / Nguyên Lê) (03:14) 15 - Beyti (Dhafer Youssef / Nguyên Lê) (02:53)
meStissage is the sixth studio album by Cape Verdean Teofilo Chantre. As Cesaria Evora s appointed composer, Chantre has penned many beautiful songs such as Ligereza, Um Pincelada and Crepuscular Solidão. His work is characterized by a strong melodic sense and harmonic sophistication that blends in a kind of swinging Creole jazz. meStissage features Marc Estève as well as a guest appearance by Bernard Lavilliers who, after covering a Teofilo Chantre song on his latest release, joins him here for a duet.
Tracklist : 1 Tu verrais 2 Tout en ce monde 3 Alem disso 4 Gongon 5 Oli'me ma bô (avec Bernard Lavilliers) 6 Entre-temps 7 Un monde honorable 8 Lua desencantada 9 Galans de noche 10 Alma Morna 11 Pai pa fidje 12 Firmamento de nos sodade 13 Au restau de l'exil
Avec une petite dizaine d'albums à son actif, et des collaborations prestigieuses (Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo, ou encore Orlando Cachaito López), Roberto Fonseca fait figure d'incontournable de la musique cubaine actuelle. Sur son nouvel album « Yo », le pianiste de La Havane évolue toujours sur une base cubaine tout en s'envolant très souvent vers l'Afrique, en compagnie de Baba Sissoko au n'goni, Sekou Kouyate à la kora, ou la chanteuse Fatoumata Diawara. Ils sont d'ailleurs réunis sur la merveilleuse communion africo-cubaine « Bibisa ». On retrouve aussi le chanteur Assane Mboup, de l'Orchestra Baobab, sur « Quien Soy yo », et plus surprenant, Faudel « le petit prince du raï », qui pose ses mélismes sur le très free « Chabani ». Mais Fonseca peut aussi prendre un virage rock avec une kora quasi Sanatanesque sur « JMF », ou cinématique avec un orgue Hammond très 70's sur « Rachel ». On n'oubliera pas « Mi Negra Ave Maria », composé avec sa maman Mercedes Cortés, illuminé par le spoken word de Mike Ladd. Un album de grande classe, d'une fluidité remarquable pour notre plus grand plaisir !
Tracklist :
01. Roberto Fonseca - 80's (6:24)
02. Roberto Fonseca - Bibisa (4:33)
03. Roberto Fonseca - Mi Negra Ave Maria (5:21)
04. Roberto Fonseca - 7 Rayos (5:29)
05. Roberto Fonseca - El Sonadoresta Cansado (5:05)
Where does jazz stop and world music start? The boundaries are getting more blurred by the minute. We’re all postmodernists now, and many musicians under fifty reflect a range of influences beyond those traditionally associated with their own core style. Some, like French-Vietnamese guitarist Nguyen Le, are so polyglot as to be practically beyond category.
Le started out down the cultural miscenegation road with his first band, the multi-ethnic Ultramarine, whose 1989 album, De, was named World Music Album of the Year by the radical French newspaper Liberation. He’s continued to mix it up ever since—prominent genre-benders he’s worked with include Miroslav Vitous, Trilok Gurtu, David Liebman, Paul McCandless, Peter Erskine and Mino Cinelu. In the late 1990s Le became increasingly interested in Maghrebi music, working with Algerian singers Safy Boutella and Cheb Mami, and in 1998 he brought Maghrebi and Vietnamese musicians together on the album Maghrebi & Friends.
None of this, however, can prepare you for the galaxy of sound sources on Homescape, a series of alternating duets with Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu and Tunisian oud player Dhafer Youssef. Some of these sources are developed and explored, others are referred to only in passing, and they include—but aren’t limited to—post-Hendrix rock, Milesian harmon-mute free improv, Maghrebi trance music, Ellingtonia, ambient, a Papua New Guinea vocal choir (sampled and replayed backwards), Delta blues, Vietnamese folk tunes, flamenco, Iranian modes, a Sardinian choir, Australian aboriginal ritual music, French chanson, Gregorian chant, and Indonesian gamelan/gong music.
Guitars, trumpet/flugelhorn and oud aside, the music is generated by loops, samples and overdubs, and the entire heavily post-produced album was recorded and mixed in Le’s Paris apartment – since 2003, his friends and neighbours Fresu and Youssef have been dropping by to home-record. The duets with Fresu are typically in free-improv mode (the exception being Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn’s lovely “Chelsea Bridge”), while the Youssef duets tend to be song or structure-based.
In the main sunny and joyful, though not without some darker and more abrasive moments, the fifteen tracks—average length three minutes, a handful six or seven—resemble a series of round-the-world postcards sent by Le, who mixed and post-produced everything solo, to his collaborators. As a soundtrack to an evening communing with the big bamboo, the exotic and the very exotic drifting in and out of the mix, it’s rich, colourful and beguiling.
Tracklist :
1 - Stranieri (Paolo Fresu / Nguyên Lê) (06:00)
2 - Byzance (Dhafer Youssef / Nguyên Lê) (04:25)
3 - Muqqam (Dhafer Youssef) (02:44)
4 - Mali Iwa (Nguyên Lê) (06:27)
5 - Zafaran (Dhafer Youssef / Nguyen Le) (06:02)
6 - Domus de Janas (Paolo Fresu / Nguyên Lê) (02:18)
7 – Kithara (Dhafer Youssef) (02:18)
8 - Chelsea Bridge (Billy Strayhorn) (03:00)
9 - Safina (Dhafer Youssef / Nguyên Lê) (03:27)
10 - Des Pres (Paolo Fresu / Nguyên Lê) (02:19)
11 - Thang Long (Nguyên Lê) (05:33)
12 - Neon (Paolo Fresu / Nguyên Lê) (03:12)
13 - Mangustao (Dominique Borker) (07:26)
14 - Lacrima Christi (Paolo Fresu / Nguyên Lê) (03:14)
Remember Shakti is a quintet which combines elements of traditional Indian music with elements of jazz. The band consists of English guitarist John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain (tabla), U. Srinivas (mandolin), Shankar Mahadevan (vocals), and V. Selvaganesh (kanjira, ghatam, mridangam), who are all of Indian descent. The band's name is derived from John Mclaughlin's acoustic Indian fusion band Shakti which was active in the 1970s. This band consisted of John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain, L. Shankar, T.H. "Vikku" Vinayakram, and R. Raghavan. The word Shakti translates in Sanskrit to "female creative power" or "goddess."
meStissage is the sixth studio album by Cape Verdean Teofilo Chantre. As Cesaria Evora s appointed composer, Chantre has penned many beautiful songs such as Ligereza, Um Pincelada and Crepuscular Solidão. His work is characterized by a strong melodic sense and harmonic sophistication that blends in a kind of swinging Creole jazz. meStissage features Marc Estève as well as a guest appearance by Bernard Lavilliers who, after covering a Teofilo Chantre song on his latest release, joins him here for a duet.