Tambores Africanos
septiembre 24, 2020
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yo la recuerdo ahora
septiembre 17, 2020
CLÁSICOS CONTEMPORÁNEOS INTERNACIONALES - AÑOS 70 - II
Yello River
septiembre 13, 2020
CLÁSICOS CONTEMPORÁNEOS INTERNACIONALES - AÑOS 70 - I
the welsh arrow
septiembre 10, 2020
Pierre Bensusan - Intuite - 2000
Intuite is the first fully solo and fully acoustic recording by Pierre Bensusan in a professional career that began in 1976 with his album Près de Paris. Although he never took formal guitar lessons, Bensusan is among the most respected guitarists in the world and has been dubbed the Claude Monet of the guitar. Apart from recordings, he has also produced various educational books and videos for guitarists. Born in Algeria in 1957, he moved with his family to Paris when he was four years old. It took its early influences from the folk revival of the 1960s, but the breadth of its influences goes far beyond that, with flavors running through jazz, classical, medieval, and world music, in particular, music. Celtic. All of these styles can be heard on Intuite, perhaps the most striking example is the track that gives the album its title. This is one of seven pieces dedicated to other musicians, in this case the Iraqi lute player Munir Bachir. Bensusan skillfully mimics the Arabic lute modality even though he currently sticks exclusively to the unusual DADGAD guitar tuning.
The piece dedicated to British guitarist John Renbourn "En Route From Scarborough," is cleverly borrowed from the classic melody "Scarborough Fair", although this and all the other compositions are his own. Another highlight is "La Hora Española", which effectively evokes an Iberian atmosphere without resorting to clichés. not using voices or other instruments, Intuite is a series of 11 narrative and abstract themes, ideal music to relax after a stressful day.
1. Kadourimbou
2. The Welsh Arrow
3. So Long Michael
4. Intuite
5. Bouree Voltige
6. Le Jardin d' Adonis
7. La Hora Española
8. L' Alchimiste
9. Agadiramadan
10. En Route From Scarborough
11. Silent Passenger
Two tone shoes
septiembre 09, 2020
Andy Narell - Slow Motion - 1985
Andy Narell (New York, March 18, 1954) is an American ethnic jazz pianist, percussionist and composer, specializing in Trinidad and Tobago brass drums.
He moved to California as a teenager, after discovering the Steelpan in Queens. Her father, Murray Narell, was a social worker, and he invited Ellie Mannette to play the brass drums in New York, in an attempt to keep the kids off the streets, out of the bands, and into the steelbands.
Narell studied music at the University of California at Berkeley, and played piano at the "University of California Jazz Ensemble" under the direction of David W. Tucker. He graduated in 1973. In the 1980s, he worked on the "Bebop & Beyond" project, which recorded tribute albums to Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk.
Later he collaborated with the Caribbean Jazz Project, Montreux, Sakésho, and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. He has composed and arranged music for the Trinidad national steel band competition, and toured South Africa in 1999, playing to an audience of 80,000.
Narell has taken the music of the steel drums to places never imagined by the pioneers of the 20th century in Trinidad and Tobago. The high point of Narell's music comes on two discs recorded in the early eighties, Light in Your Eyes and Slow Motion (his third and fourth albums). With guitarist Steve Erquiaga and percussionist Kenneth Nash, both longtime members of Narell's groups, things light up with rhythmic intensity, perfectly complementing the brilliant fusion of calypso and jazz.
Andy Narell (steel drums, keyboards)
John Thomas (vocals)
Steve Erquiaga (guitar)
Frank Martin (synthesizers)
Keith Jones (bass)
William Kennedy (drums)
Kenneth Nash (percussion, vocals)
A Sea Change by Andy Narell on Grooveshark
1. Two Tone Shoes
2. Natty Stick
3. Slow Motion
4. Street Dancin'
5. Another Drum For Oskar
6. Trapeze
7. Once A Dancer
8. A Sea Change
zuignapje
septiembre 05, 2020
Jazz Playground - 2010
Jazz Playground (2010), within the "Putumayo Kids" collection, is a new selection of international jazz aimed at both families and people who want to get into the subject. From bebop and swing, to Latin jazz, gypsy jazz, Brazilian bossa nova and African jazz, this multicultural album celebrates the vibrant global diversity of jazz, showing us how artists in South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania they have adopted jazz incorporating their own sounds.
As is customary in Putumayo, the libretto is presented with delightful illustrations for each theme by Nicola Heindl, with the introduction in English, Spanish, French and German.
Tracks list:
01. Lewis Franco &The Missing Cats - Stomp, Stomp (USA)
02. Chris McKhool - Spider-man (Canada)
03. Jose Conde - Cumbamba (USA/Cuba)
04. Triocéphale - Sur Le Pont d'Avignon (France)
05. Oran Etkin with Charenee Wade - Little Lamb Jam (Israel/USA)
06. Kinderjazz - Gazooba (Australia)
07. Barbara Morrison - Sing a Song of Sixpence (USA)
08. Trapperdetrap - Zuignapje (The Netherlands)
09. Selloane with Famoro Dioubaté - Shortnin' Bread (South Africa/Guinea)
10. The Mighty Buzzniks - Agree & Disagree (Australia)
11. Gui Tavares - Dois Meninos (Brazil)
12. Modern Conya - Oyatsu no Jikan (Japan)
13. Ingrid Lucia - This Little Light of Mine (USA)
Zumbi
septiembre 04, 2020
Jorge Ben - A Tabua de Esmeralda - 1974 - Reedicion 2009
The Emerald Tablet is a short, cryptic text attributed to the mythical Hermes Trismegistus, whose purpose is to reveal the secret of the primordial substance and its transmutations.
In the Emerald Tablet, all the art of the Great Work, the main objective of alchemy, is condensed or summarized.
Alchemy is the art of perfection and the Great Work implies its fulfillment, perfection. The Emerald Tablet contains in its few lines the secret of the Great Work, it is a direct passage to perfection.
The image on the cover of the album belongs to The Book of Hieroglyphic Figures by the alchemist FrancesNicolas Flamel, one of the greatest Adepts of all time.
Two years in a seminary were enough to leave in Jorge Ben Jor a permanent interest in philosophy, theology and alchemy (especially in the work of Tomas de Aquino, cited in several of his songs) Esa Pasion returns in 1974 with A Tabua de Esmeralda , one of the best albums of his long career.
Hermes Trismegisto e sua celeste Tábua de Esmeralda by Jorge Ben on GroovesharkErrarehumanumest by Jorge Ben on Grooveshark
01. Os Alquimistas EstaoChegando Os Alquimistas (3:21)
02. O Homem da Gravata Florida (3:09)
03. Errare HumanunEst (4:56)
04. Menina Mulher da Pele Preta (3:01)
05. Eu Vou Torcer (3:21)
06. Magnolia (3:18)
07. MinhaTeimosiaUma Arma para Te Conquistar (2:47)
08. Zumbi (3:35)
09. Brother (2:58)
10. O Namorado da Viuva (2:07)
11. Hermes Trismegisto e Sua Celeste Tabua de Esmeralda (5:36)
12. Cinco Minutos (2:52)
Vete de mí
septiembre 04, 2020
Bebo & Cigala - Lágrimas Negras - 2003
Lagrimas Negras, produced by Fernando Trueba and Javier Limón, gathers the extraordinary meeting of the flamenco singer Diego "El Cigala" and the legendary Cuban pianist and arranger Bebo Valdés, in an absolute rapport where each one stimulates in the other the best of his art . A trip to the essence of the Ibero-American love song, with stops in Cuba, Central and South America and Spain.
The album Lágrimas Negras is a project of Calle 54 Records, with Fernando Trueba at the helm, which means that it is a story of passionate feelings, especially Trueba towards Latin music and jazz (in fact, he directed the film "Calle 54" and he has just presented, with Javier Mariscal, "Chico & Rita"). Diego's crush "El Cigala" with Bebo Valdés and the song "Lágrimas Negras" is recounted by the filmmaker in his particular "session diary" of the recording (which is included in the album's libretto). The text is enriched by the beautiful introduction written by the poet Ángel González: "... the result is an extraordinary amalgam in which the Antillean song sounds like cante, and vice versa".
The result is the record of an 84-year-old Cuban pianist, who was counting at that time, and a Spanish cantaor fifty years younger. The album contains nine songs that are classics, with the participation of top-class musicians: double bass player Javier Colina and percussionist Israel Porrina "Piraña" leave their mark on almost every song. But there are also the sax of Paquito D´Rivera, the congas of Tata Güines, the timbales of Changuito and the shekere of Pancho Terry in the song "Lágrimas Negras". There are also boleros such as "Unforgettable", "I forgot that you forgot" or the "Crazy heart" popularized in his day by Antonio Machín and in which El Niño Josele participates on flamenco guitar.
The Brazilian CaetanoVeloso recites "Coraçao vagabundo" (one of his first songs) in "Eu sei que vou te amar", adapted by Veloso himself from the music of Antônio Carlos Jobim and the lyrics of Vinícius de Moraes. From the Ibero-American repertoire a song such as "La bien pagá" with Cuban choirs (Pedrito Martínez, Orlando "Puntilla" Ríos and Milton Cardona) is incorporated, and there are also tributes to Bola de Nieve ("Go away from me") and memories of Argentina ( "Nieblas del riachuelo") with the violin of the Uruguayan Federico Britos. And always Bebo's piano and Diego's voice.
Two greats with luxury guests who bring masterful touches to this gathering of multiple ethnicities full of simplicity and purity. First-rate miscegenation, without labels, a jewel, which in 2004 won a Grammy, three Music Awards, an Ondas Award and five Amigo Awards in Spain
Trackslist:
01. Inolvidable
02. Veinte años
03. Lágrimas Negras
04. Nieblas del riachuelo
05. Corazón loco
06. Se me olvidó que te olvidé
07. Vete de mí
08. La bien pagá
09. Eu sei que vou te amar
Wild is the wind
septiembre 02, 2020
Esperanza Spalding - Chamber Music Society - 2010
The double bass player, vocalist and composer Esperanza Spalding, gifted with surprising instrumental talent, polyglot and with an angelic voice, presents her latest work Chamber Music Society, an album that has earned her the Grammy Award for Newcomer Artist of the year 2011.
North American with Mexican blood, she learned to play the violin in a self-taught way in just one year, earning a position in the "Chamber Music Society" of Oregon, her hometown. Occupying the position of violin soloist at the age of fifteen, she discovered the double bass and all the possibilities that, far from the classical universe, that instrument opened to her. Years later, he breaks into blues, funk, hip-hop and other musical styles in local circuit clubs, being at the "Berklee College of Music" where he begins to link all the pieces that he acquires in the baggage and to open all the doors to him. , graduating and being hired as a teacher with just twenty years.
Having worked with artists of the stature of Michel Camilo, Pat Metheny and Nando Michelin, in her first solo album Junjo (2006), published by the Spanish label Ayva Music, she formed a trio with Cubans Aruán Ortiz on piano and Francisco Mela. Nine pieces that draw a musical journey that goes from modern jazz to contemporary Brazilian music, passing through Argentine folklore, where Spalding composes and arranges as if she were a veteran artist. In Esperanza (2008) she exudes freshness in each and every one of her songs, being accompanied, in the recording studio, by the musicians Niño Josele (flamenco guitar), Horacio "El Negro" Hernández (drums), Donald Harrison (sax) and James Haddad (percussion), among others.
In ChamberMusicSociety (2010), Esperanza Spalding once again brings together styles as different as jazz, soul and bossa nova, fusing Latin rhythms such as tango and the Argentine chacarera with her vast musical knowledge. Co-produced by Spalding herself and Gil Goldstein, the album features the pianist Leo Genovese, the drummer and percussionist QuintinoCinalli, Milton Nascimento (who voices the song "Apple Blossom") and the excellent vocalist GretchenParlato as support in " Useless Paisagem "and" Knowledge Of Good And Evil ". Esperanza Spalding once again shows that jazz is a style in permanent evolution and that she clearly guides her music in this direction.
Tracks list:
01. Little Fly
02. Knowledge Of Good and Evil
03. Really Very Small
04. Chacarera
05. Wild Is The Wind
06. Apple Blossom
07. As A Sprout
08. What A Friend
09. Winter Sun
10. Inútil Paisagem
11. Short And Sweet
Tucatuca
agosto 30, 2020
Pink Martini - Splendor in the Grass - 2009
Few groups perform so well, in the multiple styles that dominate and fuse, with an elegant and clean sound with a retro air: glamor, beauty, elegance and "dolcefarniente" distils their music, Pink Martini is among the Cuban dance bands of the 30s, a classical chamber orchestra, a "palazzo" in Napoli, a Brazilian parade, a film noir or a romantic musical from the 40s or 50s, but with a global and modernist perspective.
Splendor in the Grass (2009) is their penultimate work, once again showing us that they are still in good shape, at a very high instrumental level and in line with their three previous albums: an extraordinary ability to mix their own compositions with the most original versions. The themes are in English, French, Neapolitan, Italian and Spanish, with its unmistakable touch, always romantic, friendly and bittersweet. "Ninnananna" is the beginning of the album, a lullaby in Neapolitan "for a sleeping sailor who dreams in blue" (composed by his friends Alba Clemente and Massimo Audiello); "Ohayoo Ohio" is a colorful jazz cocktail from guitarist and songwriter Dan Faehnle; Alex Marashian is the co-author of five of the thirteen songs, "Splendor in theGrass" (which incorporates a fragment from Thaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B minor and is a return to classic pop from the 70s, inspired by William Wordsworth, Walt Withman and TheCarpentiers), the delicious chachacha "Oùestmatête?", "And thenyou´regone" and "Butnow I´m back" that narrate the courtship between Lorenzo and María (based on the opening of the Fantasy in F minor for piano by Franz Schubert and sounding musical), and the funny "Bitty Boppy Betty" (with cool percussion and wind sections).
"SundayTable" and "Over the Valley" are by China Forbes and Thomas M. Lauderdale (leaders of the band), describing everyday love and the sights from the Forbes house; "Tuca tuca" (first song by Italian Rafaella Carrá), a dance and flirtation that plays with Peter Sellers' sitar in the movie "The Party"; "Sing", originally composed by Joe Raposo for the series "Sesame Street" (sung in bilingual by China Forbes and Emilio Delgado, and accompanied by The Royal Blues of Grant High School in Portland); a curious version of "Piensa en me" (performed by Chavela Vargas herself), and "New Amsterdam" (a beautiful ode to New York City, with dialogues of winds, piano and the Tsunami Singers of thePacific YouthChoir), complete the album, accompanied by The Harvey Rosencratz Orchestra.
In short, music to listen to and enjoy, without another occupation, an album that, like the previous ones, transports us all over the planet with its highly successful fusion of rhythms, melodies and languages that makes them unique.
Tracks list:
01. Ninna nanna
02. Ohayoo Ohio
03. Splendor in the Grass
04. Oùest ma tête?
05. An Then You´re Gone
06. But Now I´m Back
07. Sunday Table
08. Over the Valley
09. Tucatuca
10. Bitty Boppy Betty
11. Sing
12. Piensa en mi
13. New Amsterdam
14. Ninna nanna (reprise)
University Story
agosto 28, 2020
The Calais Sessions - 2016
On October 24, 2016, the dismantling of the "Jungle of Calais" began, the largest makeshift migrant camp in Europe, with more than 7000 refugees who had been forced to flee their homes, most of them wanting to cross to United Kingdom through the Eurotunnel. A year earlier, a group of artists went the other way, wanting to do something to fight the humanitarian crisis that was unfolding a few kilometers from their homes. The result was The Calais Sessions, an album recorded by the inhabitants of "La Jungla", whose objective was to involve the people who lived in the countryside in a project that would increase their self-esteem, channeling their talent through music.
It all started with the photo of the corpse of Aylan, aged three, on a Turkish beach. Vanessa Lucas-Smith, a British cellist, reacted with more than compassion. The following weekend he landed in Calais with a group of artists. "Our first intention was personal: to understand what was happening, who those people were. But we were convinced that there would be music, and musicians, among the refugees. An hour after arriving - the cellist says - already a couple of Syrian musicians from London had formed a group with two compatriots from the field. And two days later they recorded the first cut ". Lucas-Smith is a cellist at the AllegriQuartet in London (and one of the main promoters of the project) and through the album he has understood that when "you give people instruments, they become something like bread, water or coal, it is something they really need, "he tells The New York Times.
The album opens with "TheLost Singer". For Moheddin, author of the song and singer with an extraordinary voice, that served as a passport: today she lives in London on her job, a tailor. "Khandahar" is an Afghan-Kurdish co-production, written in Farsi by two Afghan sisters, one aged nine and the other twelve. The melody was composed with the help of two Kurdish refugees, drummers.
Kasper is a 25-year-old Iraqi refugee. She raps about love on "UniversityStory," but in Bagdag she was making jewelry. He had to flee his home and after a grueling three-week journey he reached Calais. Mohammed Ismail (who plays "Ismail") is Afghan and likes to play the dambora, a stringed instrument. But the Taliban did not like his hobby because "one day they heard me play at home, they put my right arm in boiling water and told me they did it because it was the arm I play with." Now Ismail plays an instrument similar to the cello that they have created with pieces found in the field and has managed to overcome bad memories.
During the recording of the disc, the team encountered many difficulties as in February the French authorities began to dismantle the field, which affected many of the people involved. A group of Eritrean women, at first a bit reluctant, decided to record a religious song called "Yezus". At the end they were so excited about the project that they wanted to record another song, but the next morning they got up and couldn't go to their church to pray, rehearse or get inspired, they had demolished it.
Mexico is present on this disco-planet thanks to Carolina Ferrer and Jesús Bellosta Flores, two volunteers who worked in the fields and who recorded "La llorona". Laura, from the collective The Calais Sessions, recalls in La Vanguardia that "we soon discovered that the refugees had enormous talent; their personal stories impressed us as much as the musical cultures that traveled with them. We decided that it was essential that these people integrate into our collective to transcribe their stories into music. And that it was another trip, but different, in which everyone - Syrians, Afghans, Sudanese, Eritreans - shared that world of coexistence and harmony that music proposes ".
The project, photographed by Sarah Hickson, was shot in a solar-powered home studio near the camp library. The technical aspects were also an odyssey, but DamienBarrière-Constantin, a 24-year-old sound engineer and co-founder of the initiative, managed to sound professional. For him the most important thing is not that "people listen to us", but that "refugees can listen to what they have done themselves," he says.
The album, which also features the participation of Natalia Tena (Molotov Jukebox) and ÇiğdemAslan, can be purchased through their website, the proceeds of which go to the refugees themselves and to a British charity called Citizen UK.
Tracks list:
01. Moheddin Aljabi – The Lost Singer
02. Kasper King – University Story
03. Bogdan Vacarescu – Deskovo Oro
04. Danny Rowe – Sounds of the Jungle
05. Carolina Ferrer – La Llorona
06. Abdullah Kathin – YaRab´oun
07. Andy Kyte – Khandahar
08. The Evangelist Church Singers – Yesus
09. The Evangelist Church Singers – Halleluyah
10. Carl Burgess – Long Road
11. Mohammed Ismail – Ismail
12. Laurens Price-Nowak – Nothing
13. Natalia Tena – Every Heart That Loves
Waterfall
agosto 27, 2020
Armand Amar - La Piste
After her mother dies, Grace (Camilla Summers) has mixed feelings about returning to Africa, where she will reunite with her father Gary (Julian Sands). After an effusive meeting, she begins to feel good in this place, where she had not been in a long time, and which is already a bit strange to her. But tragedy comes, when Gary returns from a flight to meet his daughter, but a series of strong winds traps his plane and causes it to crash, although he miraculously comes out alive from this accident.
Ambient score in which Armand Amar applies western music in combination with ethnic music, as well as using instruments and voices from the places where the action takes place. The overall tone is dramatic and evocative, sometimes exultant and at other times very intimate.
Armand Amar likes to mix orchestras with traditional instruments, such as the doudouk, an Armenian flute that opens and closes the music for this film and for this he invited Lévon Minassian a virtuoso on this Armenian instrument.
1. Premonition (4:38)
2. Prince and Gary (3:46)
3. The Camp (1:21)
4. Child's Song (5:14)
5. Kadjiro and Grace (4:25)
6. Running (3:28)
7. Return to Africa (3:55)
8. Diamonds (3:01)
9. Quarrel (1:19)
10. Gipsy Raven (6:00)
11. By Starlight (3:32)
12. Waterfall (1:36)
13. Desert (4:29)
14. The Father (2:03)
15. Longing (3:51)
16. Storm (5:57)
Tabú
agosto 26, 2020
Omara Portuondo - Flor de amor - 2004
In 1996, during the Buena Vista Social Club recording, OmaraPortuond was invited to sing a bolero and she chose “Veinte años”. She sang it with Compay Segundo, and it became one of the album's highlights. Often called the Edith Piaf of Cuba, she has thrilled audiences in cabarets and Havana nights. The passionate and moving honesty of her voice has made her one of the most beloved figures in Cuban music. But, like Ibrahim Ferrer, she had to wait for the said album to enjoy international recognition.
Flower of Love, released in 2004, reveals the richest and most subtle texture in Omara's voice. Backed by a renowned band of "first-class" Cuban musicians, along with an excellent selection of Brazilian musicians, the singer sounds truly majestic, with new songs and new interpretations of classic repertoires giving the album its distinctive sound.
Trackslist:
01. Tabú
02. Amor de mis amores
03. Alma de roca
04. Mueve la cintura mulato
05. Junto a un cañaveral
06. Hermosa Habana
07. El Madrugador
08. Amorosa guajira
09. Habanera ven
10. Si llego a besarte
11. Flor de amor
12. Juramento
13. He venido a decirte
14. Casa calor
ya Bouy
agosto 19, 2020
Omar Faruk Tekbilek & Steve Shehan - Alif - 2002
Born of a Turkish and Egyptian family and living in the United States, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, multi-instrumentalist par excellence, symbolizes that variety in the unity that constitutes the Mediterranean, the land in which the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe converge, and also symbolizes , Turkey, geographical and cultural crossroads of the Mediterranean. And the letter alif is the initial of Allah, Divine Realization of Love and love in all its forms (divine love, love of life and romantic love) is the common thread of the themes of this album Alif (released in 2002), which constitutes a milestone in Faruk's distinguished professional career for his emphasis on modern performances of traditional chants, his perfectly executed chants and the participation in it of international talents: the producer and multi-instrumentalist Steve Shehan, the Greek singer Glikería, the Israeli singer Zahava Ben, Persian singer Mamak Khadem, Bulgarian singer Galina Durmushliyska, Turkish singer Suzy and Spanish guitarist José Antonio Rodríguez Muñoz.
Tracks list:
01. Dulger
02. Gardener
03. Laundry Girl
04. Dark Eyes
05. Shinanay
06. Don't Cry My Love
07. Alif
08. Dadash
09. Take a Flight
10. Ya Bouy
11. Lachin
12. Forbidden Love
