Results for "Favored Nations"
Dewa Budjana: Zentuary

by Chris M. Slawecki
Indonesian composer, guitarist and bandleader Dewa Budjana's tenth release (and his first on guitarist Steve Vai's label Favored Nations in association with Budjana's usual label, MoonJune) reviews, consolidates and advances his sound. Budjana's three decades of performing and recording, including collaborations with jazz A-listers as Peter Erskine, Joe Locke and Larry Goldings, are worth the retrospective. ...
Zentuary

By Dewa Budjana
Label: Favored Nations
Released: 2016
Track listing: CD1: Dancing Tears; Solas PM; Lake Takengon; Sunikala; Dear Yulman; Rerengat
Langit (Crack in the Sky). CD2: Pancaroba; Manhattan Temple; Dedariku; Ujung
Galuh; Uncle Jack; Zentuary.
Dewa Budjana: Zentuary

by John Kelman
In retrospect, all paths have truly led to this. Four increasingly impressive recordings for Moonjune Records have brought Dewa Budjana together with a variety of high profile, top-drawer jazz musicians from the American west and east coasts. Each successive album, from 2013's Dawai in Paradise through to 2015's Hasta Karma, have found the Indonesian guitarist raising ...
Other True Self

By Vernon Reid
Label: Favored Nations
Released: 2006
Track listing: Game is Rigged; National Anthem; Flatbush and Church Revisited; Afrerika; Enjoy the Silence; Whiteface; Oxossi; G; Wildlife; Overcoming; Kizzy; Mind of My Mind; Prof. Bebey.
Vernon Reid & Masque: Other True Self

by John Kelman
Vernon Reid has been always been a stylistic chameleon. Straddling many musical worlds, he's just as likely to record with Public Enemy as James Blood Ulmer, Jack Bruce or Lafayette Gilchrist. With a general approach best described as metal-edged reckless abandon, he proves on Other True Self that, as always, he's still capable of much more. ...
Altiplanos

Label: Favored Nations
Released: 2005
Track listing: Sentimentales Pyromaniaques; La Dame de Clevedon; Sur un Fil; Altiplanos; Demain d
Bayshore Road

Label: Favored Nations
Released: 2005
Track listing: Bayshore Road; Better World; Inner Sanctuary; Beyond the Dunes; Manha de Carnaval; A Night in Manarola; Venus Over Venice; Jerry's Breakdown; Echo Lake; Birdland
Chamber Works

By Terry Bozzio
Label: Favored Nations
Released: 2005
Track listing: Five Movements For Drum Set and Orchestra: Temenos, Hypnotic, Untitled, Moguli, IBO; Opus One: Self Portrait With Scar.
Terry Bozzio + Metropole Orkest: Chamber Works

by John Kelman
Terry Bozzio is perhaps best known as a chops-laden drummer who's more at home in the pop/rock and fusion worlds. Chamber Works, which teams him with Netherlands' Metropole Orkest--like guitarist Mike Keneally's similar collaboration on last year's The Universe Will Provide--demonstrates that Bozzio is about much, much more. A member of the late Frank Zappa's band ...