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Sylvain Leroux: Quatuor Creole

Read "Quatuor Creole" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Flautist Sylvain Leroux's debut, Quatuor Créole, is an enchanting mélange of Guinean sounds, French influences and jazz inflections. In that aspect it is essentially Creole, but not necessary a work of New Orleanian or Haitian folkloric music. Leroux plays the tambin, a West African reed flute, and a dozon ngoni, a lute from the same region--often alternating between the two on the same track. This is heard on the bluesy, hypnotic and griot (jeli)-style “Gambalou." Elsewhere, Leroux ...

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SoSaLa: Nu World Trash

Read "Nu World Trash" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


SoSaLa is the brainchild of vocalist, saxophonist, music activist and native Iranian Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi, who fuses Persian influences with Western instrumentation amid indigenous platforms, summoning the Middle Eastern contingent. A well-travelled musician, Ladjevardi immerses his craft into quite a few projects and multifaceted ensemble-based frameworks. He resides in New York City, and as the story goes, blasted his horn in front of the United Nations as a means for supporting the Green Movement in Iran. “Vatan Kojai?" ...

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Adam Rudolph Go: Organic Orchestra: The Sound of a Dream

Read "The Sound of a Dream" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Dal quinto disco dell'orchestra inventata (all'inizio dello scorso decennio) e diretta da Rudolph fluisce un immenso quanto affascinante magma sonoro. Vi si riuniscono decine di archi e fiati e all'orizzonte si delinea una sorta di battaglia perenne tra improvvisazione totale, strutture costruite su immensi lastricati sonori, momenti ripetitivi, corpose sezioni e una sorta di sinfonismo contemporaneo innestato su armonie e ritmi orientali e africani. L'orchestra (in totale sono ben quarantasette elementi) è stata istruita dal percussionista con un nuovo sistema ...


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