O bom será sempre bom mas algumas vezes atinge a excelência

The Nostalgia 77 Sessions, Vol. 1 - 2009

Provavelmente o mais profundo trabalho de sempre do musico de jazz e produtor Benedic Lamdin ou se preferirem Nostalgia 77, aqui em estreita colaboração com as lendas do jazz britânico Keith e Julie Tippet.

Este album é ainda mais jazzístico do que o habitual nos ultimos discos deste projecto e os Tippet's são altamente responsaveis por essa sonoridade. Keith com as suas agudíssimas linhas de piano soando como já há anos não soava e Julie cantando com e sem letras em linhas de tom negro em que apenas nos relembra o quão revolucionária cantora consegue ser.

Algumas faixas têm um groove brando enquanto outras em alguns pontos quase que se passam mas a sólida linha de baixo de Riaan Vosloo mantêm todo o conjunto coeso mantendo a sobriedade geral.
Não restam dúvidas de que Benedic Lamdin, aka Nostalgia 77, assim como o veterano pianista Keith Tippet e sua esposa e experimental vocalista, Julie, entendem com poucos esta letargia dos tempos modernos que parece engulir-nos e com os seus musicos acompanhantes nos oferecem um album que tão bem representa a imobilidade e sedentarismo intelectual dos nossos dias mas sobretudo uma banda sonora que parece querer libertar-se(nos) de fronteiras e limites.

Excelente.

Artista: Nostalgia 77 Feat Keith & Julie Tippet
Album: The Nostalgia 77 Sessions, Vol. 1
Data de lançamento : 2-Fev-2009
Editora: Tru Thoughts
Genero: Lo-fi, jazz

Faixas:

1. You Don't Just Dream When You Sleep

2. Film Blues

3. Sketch For Gary/Billy Goes To Town

4. Mice

5. Rainclouds

6. Lapis Blue

7. Soothing The Rattlesnake

8. Miniature

9. Vienna

10. Visions

11. Okinawa

12. Temple

13. Four Whispers For Archie's Chair

14. New Inner City Blues

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The Heritage Orchestra - 2006

Uma herança é por definição algo que fica e esta The Heritage Orchestra (THO) deixa-nos claramente algo. Inovação.

A fusão da classica e do jazz através de uma big band de 45 elementos que, claramente, funcionará melhor ao vivo do que em disco, mas que nos deixa antever neste registo o que poderíamos assistir.

Formada por jovens músicos londrinos com diferentes tendências musicais, mas soberbamente liderados pelo compositor e maestro Jules Buckley e pelo co-fundador Chris Wheeler, esta THO consegue misturar sonoridades clássicas com a liberdade do jazz, consegue que a secção ritmica moderna não interfira com as cordas e estas não abafem os sopros, pelo contrário, consegue um equilibrio mais que perfeito.

O segredo que estes senhores descobriram foi a mestria de combinar o novo com a tradição, puxando-nos aos limites da sonoridade orquestral.

Já perceberam que tentar definir o trabalho desta orquestra soa redundante, tudo o que eles tocam já foi tocado, a diferença é que nunca foi tocado desta maneira.

Excelente primeiro album, sendo que também foi o primeiro da editora Brownswood, liderada por um senhor chamado Gilles Peterson.

Necessito dizer algo mais?

Artista:The Heritage Orchestra
Album:The Heritage Orchestra
Data de lançamento :2006
Editora:Brownswood Recordings
Genero:Classica, Jazz, Funk
Tempo total :51.1 min

Faixas:

1. Mothers and Daughters Now Mothers
   
2. D'Lin
3. Sky Breaks
4. Ballad for Strings
5. Tell Me Stories
6. The 1890 Affair, Movement I
7. The 1890 Affair, Movement II
8. The 1890 Affair, Movement III

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La Guapa , ou como me apetece chamar-lhe

Niña de Fuego - 2008

Mi Niña Lola - 2006

Ainda me acontecem coisas destas, raramente, mas acontecem.

Ao ouvir o ultimo disco da Mariza, descobri lá pelo meio uma voz flamenca, que me chamou a atenção pelo timbre e pela garra. Pus-me em busca e malta fui completamente siderado pelo que descobri.Concha Buika.

Não vale a pena perder muito tempo em considerações. 

Ouçam e comprem, porque de Espanha, afinal, não vêm só maus ventos nem maus casamentos.

Deixo-vos a ligação para o segundo e terceiro discos. O primeiro album  foi regravado pelo produtor Javier Limon e no fundo é o segundo. 

Algo mais:

http://www.buika.net/

Artista:Concha Buika
Album:Mi Ninã Lola e Niña de Fuego
Data de lançamento :2006 e 2008
Editora:Dro Atlantic, S.A.
Genero: flamengo, soul, jazz


Faixas:

Niña de Fuego

1. La Falsa Moneda
   
2. Culpa Mia
   
3. Mienteme Bien
   
4. La Nina De Fuego
   
5. Arboles De Agua
   
6. La Niebla
   
7. No Habra Nadie En El Mundo
   
8. Volver Volver
   
9. Volveras
   
10. Mentirosa
    
11. Hay En La Luz
    

Mi Niña Lola

1.  Mi niña Lola
   
2. Ojos Verdes
   
3. Te Camelo
   
4. Ay de Mi Primavera
   
5. Mi Manera
   
6. Nostalgias
   
7. Triunfo
   
8. Bulería Alegre
   
9. Love
   
10. Loca
    
11. Jodida Pero Contenta
    

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The Matthew Herbert Big Band

There's me and There's you

(2008)

Acabar um dia e receber uma noticia como esta é, certamente, um belo final de dia. Sou fan do Herbert, não é segredo e então deste projecto The Matthew Herbert Big Band sou o que se chamaria um maníaco.

Portanto acho que soarei um pouco suspeito quando digo que este novo album "There's me and there's you" é seguramente o mais sedutor, o mais sofisticado mas também o mais subversivo conjunto de canções de protesto que já ouvi em um mesmo album.Como escrevi atrás, pode até soar suspeito, mas é mesmo isto o que me apetece escrever.

A mistura de instrumentalizações jazzisticas, vozes carregadas de soul, ritmos perfeitamente fascinantes e um arsenal de samples reunidos, seguramente, da arca mais secreta, marcam de forma genial esta segunda colaboração do Matthew Herbert com a sua Big Band.

Texto da editora:

An electronic innovator, sonic explorer and prolific collaborator, Herbert has released a huge catalogue of critically acclaimed music under his own name as well as Doctor Rockit, Wishmountain, Radio Boy and others. He has also produced and remixed artists as diverse as Björk, REM, Quincy Jones, John Cale, Yoko Ono, Dizzee Racal and Roisin Murphy, as well as working with highly regarded original thinkers such as the chef Heston Blumenthal and playwright Caryl Churchill. However, There’s Me and There's You marks a new chapter in his career as it is Herbert's debut recording with revered and versatile London-based artist Eska whose vast array of past collaborators includes David Sylvian, Lewis Taylor, Anthony Tidd and Afrobeat legend Tony Allen.

Herbert’s albums always closely interweave medium with message, surface beauty with political subtext. Effortlessly wrapping deluxe avant-jazz arrangements around polemical lyrics and artfully selected noises, this album’s dominant theme is power and it’s abuses in the 21st century. Recurring motifs include the war in Iraq, the power of monarchy, religion, media, wealth inequalities, state-sponsored torture, the hypocrisy of climate change politics and the evils of rampant consumerism. 

For example, the album contains a memorial to the victims of the Iraq war in “One Life,” which samples the incubator system which kept Herbert’s prematurely born son alive. Each beep represents 100 people killed in Iraq, from the start of the war in 2003 to October 2006. The disturbingly beautiful collage track "Nonsound" is made of ambient recordings from Palestine, including the sound of protestors being shot against the wall that divides the territories. He wanted to record both the favourite and most hated sounds of ordinary Palestinians, and this is what was sent back.

Additional samples include the sound of 70 condoms being scraped along the floor of the British Museum, a match being struck in the Houses of Parliament, one of a 100 nails being hammered into a coffin, vocals recorded at a Kent landfill site, a Kensington branch of McDonalds, a “stop and search” document issued under the Prevention of Terrorism act, 100 credit cards being cut up and 70 people blowing over water bottles, shaking US election badges and squirting bottles of Britney Spears' "Curious" perfume in the grand entrance hall of the British Museum. This is an album, in many senses, of extraordinary renditions.

There’s Me and There’s You is full of playful melodies and deceptively joyous music paired with dark and angry themes. Throughout, Herbert’s message is deadly serious, but ultimately a hugely optimistic statement of people power. In the months ahead, Herbert plans to tour the album with an 18-piece orchestra, taking his Trojan Horse of sophisticated subversion directly to the people. This is democracy in action, a musical resistance movement, speaking truth to power in defiantly hopeful ways.


Artista:The Matthew Herbert Big Band
Album:There's Me and There's You
Data de lançamento :28-10-08
Editora:!K7
Genero:Jazz, swing, orquestral, lo-fi, soul 

Faixas:
01. The Story (6:25)
02. Pontificate (2:54)
03. Waiting (5:37)
04. The Yesness (4:49)
05. Battery (6:14)
06. Regina (5:35)
07. The Rich Man's Prayer (4:05)
08. Breathe (7:28)
09. Knowing (2:07)
10. Nonsound (3:14)
11. One Life (5:33)
12. Just Swing (5:30)

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Banda sonora para o final de um dia estafante

Part-time Heroes - Meanwhile... (2008)

Este vai ser dificil de catalogar, mas já conto com duas audições e garanto que não apetece parar de ouvir. Perfeito para o final da tarde de um daqueles dias ou talvez para um domingo de manhã após uma noitada á antiga.

Artista:Part-time Heroes
Album:Meanwhile...
Data de lançamento :01/09/08
Editora:Dusty Groove America
Genero:downtempo, jazz
 
Faixas:

1. Intro 
2. Ready For Change feat. Pete Simpson 
3. Shadowlands feat. Liane Carroll 
4. Realise feat. Jono McCleery 
5. Stop, Fade, Blur feat. Laura Vane 
6. Angels Fly feat. Jono McCleery
7. Sun Will Shine feat. Bridgette Amofah 
8. What's The Noise? Pt ii / What It Could Be feat. Liane Carroll 
9. Method (Don't Say Goodbye) feat. Bridgette Amofah
10. Distance 
11. In My Soul feat. Laura Vane

Texto editora:

Sometime in the early 21st century, deep in the leafy suburbs of downtown Southampton, a mild mannered part-time shop assistant and unassuming sandwich delivery-boy were hatching a plan to rescue quality soulful music from almost certain oblivion. 
Ross Wakefield and Toby Vane (as they’re known to the taxman) harnessed their shared influences, ranging from Public Enemy and Joe Cocker to Elbow and Nick Drake, and began to create their own unique supersonic sound. They invited selected friends and musicians to bring more of a live element to their recordings, including newcomers Jono McCleery (Music Weeks ‘Best Unsigned Act of 2005’), Lucy Kitchen, Bridgette Amofah (Oi Va Voi), Pete Simpson (Elektrons), BBC Jazz award winner and Ronnie Scotts’ fave Liane Carroll (London Elektricity) and Laura Vane (MJ Cole, Hardkandy). 
2006 saw the duo release their debut recording, the ‘Realise’ EP, earning them global critical acclaim, and radio rotation from Zane Lowe, Mr Scruff, Ras Kwame, and Benji B, amongst others. Indeed, Gilles Peterson became the duo’s number one champion, inviting them to record a live session at Maida Vale Studios. By the end of the year the Heroes had landed themselves two nominations at the BBC Worldwide Awards and things were starting to hot up! 
Having turned out well received remixes for a plethora of artists, including Wallis Bird and N’Dambi, and having delivered some more dance floor focused cuts (under their PTH Projects guise) for Wah Wah 45s, the time had now come to unleash the debut LP – “Meanwhile…”. 
The Part-Time Heroes’ sound has often been compared to scene defining stalwarts like Koop, Zero 7 and Portishead, and “Meanwhile….” continues that legacy, pushing forward with a uniquely refreshingly, wholesome and honest style, complete with live instrumentation, deep jazz roots, folky flourishes and organic, soul nourishing goodness. 
The Heroes will be touring the album with their full live band throughout the latter half of 2008 and into ’09, following up road blocked gigs at The Jazz Café & Pigalle Club with a number of festivals over the summer and a huge album launch at Cargo on September 12th. Shop assistant and delivery boy RIP, these boys are on a mission, and won’t stop until their work is done.

Da página do projecto:

The first full album from Part Time Heroes -- a group who've done some remixes and singles over the past few years, but who really step forward strongly with this set! There's a depth here we never would have guessed from their clever cuts before -- a fuller, richer sound that draws from jazzy roots, but also inflects them with some soundtrack-like influences too -- putting things together in a careful blend of acoustic instrumentation and electric elements -- often with a warm feel that's strongly soulful. Keyboards really shine on the set -- there's a lot of Rhodes here -- but there's also work on trumpet, flute, and tenor that stands out too -- not used in straight jazz ways, but to inflect some organic colors on the tunes. Vocals are by Laura Vane, Jono McCleery, Liane Carroll, and Bridgette Amofah -- but a few of the tracks are instrumental too. Titles include "Stop Fade Blur", "Realise", "Shadowlands", "Sun Will Shine", "Method", "What's The Noise/What It Could Be", "In My Soul", and "Angels Fly". 
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VA - Swing Style - Swing Beats for Dancing Feets (2008)

Não resisti a esta pequena joia.

Album : Swing Style - Swing Beats for Dancing Feets(Compilado por Gülbahar Kültür)

Genero: Jazz, Swing, Jazz-Lounge, Electro-Jazz

Editora: Lola's World Records

Tipp: Compilação  
Data lançamento: 13 Maio 2008

Tempo total: 79:56 Min

Tamanho: 196.00 Mb

Pequena nota da editora:

Sweet & Cool: It's Swing Time. The Swing Revival, the cultural phenomenon of the 1990s and early 2000s which featured renewed popular interest in the swing period of the '30s and '40s is now crowned with the new album released by Lola's World Records: Swing Style.

"Swing Style" compiled by Germany based DJ Gülbahar Kültür and released with Lola's World Records is the ultimate album that venerates the return of the swing sound. From fans of this genre to any danceacholic, the album is a perfect one featuring the music of classical swingers as well as new wave of smooth crooners. Full and tight with danceable songs, "Swing Style" brings artists who swing out anyone, like America's great jazz divas Shirley Horn, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, the classical international star and the wondrous musician of Brazil, Sergio Mendes, Anita O'Day, the much admired jazz singer in the jazz pantheon who presented herself as a hip singer of the '40s, together with names like the celebrated and original Irish musician Sinead O'Connor, the famous Austrian musician Waldeck, the Dutch/Belgian lounge-duo Gare du Nord, Melvin Tormé aka The Velvet Fog, one of the great American jazz singers who is also the composer of a number of jazz standards, Georgia Gibbs, the well-known singer of the hit Absent Minded Moon and Eric Triton, the amazingly hot and powerful voice of Mauritius. The album brings great surprises like the Disco Queen of the early 80s Amanda Lear, also famous as a model, adult model, painter, novelist, actress, media personality, composer and lyricist, The Puppini Sisters, the musical trio specializing in 1940s-style close harmony vocal music who sing Beyonce's big hit Crazy in Love fantastically, Swing Sisters, the Danish trio renowned with their performances of hit songs of the 1940s and earlier, Herman Brood, the controversial character of the music scene of the '70s and '80s, G-Swing, the collective who have re- invented a dance-floor-oriented swing that combines house, electro and all that is beaty, bouncey and jazzy and Fred Astaire, the American dancer and singer famous for his appearances in the 1920s and 1930s at Broadway, who introduced many now-classic songs, including jazz standards. DJ Brame, one the veterans of the French electronic scene, now offering a new mix of Swing and House with a real Chicago flavour is also included in the very wide-ranging artist list of Swing Stlye, where Caravan Palace brings a perfect sample of the celebrated genre "jazz manouche" aka Gypsy Swing.

The playlist of the stylish, warm and groovy "Swing Style" is undoubtedly unique with songs covered like Marvin &Miles, Hit the Road Jack, The Boy from Ipanema, Watch What Happens, Teardrops from My Eyes, I Wanna be Loved by You, Volare (Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blu), Sweet and Gentle, Just A Gigolo, Crazy in Love, Sing Sing Sing, I'm Crazy 'bout my Baby, Memories, Puttin' on the Ritz and many more... Come on, let's swing again!

Faixas
01. Gare Du Nord - Marvin & Miles

02. Shirley Horn - Hit the Road Jack
03. Sarah Vaughan - The Boy from Ipanema
04. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Watch What Happens
05. Ella Fitzgerald - Teardrops from My Eyes
06. Sinead O'Connor - I Want to Be Loved by You
07. Tom Gaebel - It's a Good Life
08. Wayne Newton - Volare (Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blu)
09. Mel Torme - Cement Mixer
10. Georgia Gibbs - Sweet and Gentle
11. Renato Carosone - Tu Vuo Fa L'americano
12. Eric Triton - Mari Nica Swing
13. The Moonlighters - Right On
14. Swing Sisters & The Pasadena Roof Orchestra - In the Mood
15. Amanda Lear - Just a Gigolo
16. Herman Brood - Back on the Corner
17. Alfredo Rey & La Sua Orchestra - Fotoromanza
18. The Puppini Sisters - Crazy in Love
19. Anita O'Day - Sing, Sing, Sing
20. G-Swing - I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby
21. Waldeck - Memories
22. Fred Astaire - Puttin' on the Ritz (Club Des Belugas Remix)
23. G-Swing - Diga Diga Doo
24. Caravan Palace - Jolie Coquine
25. Club Des Belugas - Some Like It Hot
26. Parov Stelar - Wanna Get

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