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Nicola Conte

To comprehend fully Nicola Conte's music originality and sensibility we should refer, together with his productions, to the unavoidable Fez's activity, a cultural movement founded by Conte himself in Bari in the early nineties. A real melting pot of several creative musicians, who first of all are friends and grew up together with the same intellectual, music and political similarities. Cultural trouble-makers, emotional dreamers, Jazz enthusiasts of the fifties and sixties, deep "nouvelle vague" connoisseurs, compulsive vinyl collectors, design and graphic experts, people crazy for cultural beat and books written by revolutionaries like Jean Paul Sartre and Boris Vian. The atmosphere at Fez seemed to be the same detectable at Tabou, the legendary "caveau" in Saint Germain de Pres, described by Vian himself

Umoja

By Nicola Conte

Label: Far Out Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Arise; Dance Of Love And Peace Part 1; Life Forces; Flying Circles; Freedom & Progress; Soul Of The People; Heritage; Into The Light Of Love; Umoja Unity; Dance Of Love & Peace Part. 2; Arise (Instrumental); Into The Light Of Love (Instrumental).

Various Artists: Glucklich V1: A Collection Of Brazilian Flavours From The Past And Present

by Chris May
August 2, 2023

Collectors of Brazilian popular music from the mid and late twentieth century, who do not have the time or resources to visit the country for a spell of crate digging, can turn to European and Japanese DJs who do the digging for them, releasing their finds on compilation albums. In 2023, most of those crates have ...

Nicola Conte: Umoja

by Chris May
June 7, 2023

Nicola Conte continues on his journey from acid-jazz bohemian to spiritual-jazz sophisticate with this immaculately hip album, fronted on half of its tracks by London-based soul-jazz divas Zara McFarlane and Bridgette Amofah. Conte began his trajectory with the acid-jazz template Jet Sounds (Schema, 2000), boosted it with Jet Sounds Revisited (Schema, 2002) and, after ...

Meeco: Keeping It Real

by Chris May
July 11, 2022

The Berlin-based producer and composer Meeco has a niche but devoted following, built up over a series of romantically inclined and elegant albums released between 2009 and 2014. The discs, which have pronounced Latin flavours, are Amargo Mel (Connector, 2009), Perfume E Caricias (Connector, 2010), Beauty Of The Night (Connector, 2012) and Souvenirs Of Love (Double ...

From George Coleman to Meeco: Ten Overlooked Classics

by Chris May
May 10, 2022

The only thread running through this installment of Building A Jazz Library is that of unsung quality. No particular artist is spotlighted, nor any particular genre. There are simply ten, randomly selected albums, recorded in the US and Europe between 1953 and 2021, which show jazz off at its finest, but which, for one reason or ...

Joe Henderson, Bill Evans, Jim Hall: Buried Treasure from Germany's MPS Label

by Chris May
February 9, 2022

Between its founding in 1968 and sale in 1983, the original incarnation of the recently revived German label MPS—the initials stand for Musik Produktion Schwarzwald (Music Production Black Forest)—notched up around five hundred releases. Some were recorded in the US by American musicians, many more were recorded in Europe and featured bands made up of European ...

People Need People

Label: Schema Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Hold On To Your Dreams; The Higher Love; Imani River; Nigeria; People Need People; Inner Light; New World Shuffle; Good Juju; African Spirits; Tribes; Mother Nature.

Melanie Charles: Y'all Don't (Really) Care About Black Women

by Angelo Leonardi
November 22, 2021

Questo primo album della cantante Melanie Charles per l'etichetta Verve apre alla cantante di Brooklyn un pubblico più ampio della nicchia dove ha operato finora: quell'universo dove s'incontrano nu—jazz, neo—soul, spiritual jazz e sperimentazioni elettroniche con campionamenti e remixaggi. Attiva da un decennio in quest'area la Charles non è solo una splendida vocalist ...

Ohisashiburi: Reimagining The Beatles

by Chris May
May 9, 2021

One might imagine that making an album of Lennon & McCartney covers is as easy as falling off the proverbial log. Not so. For starters, even if the listener has never bought a Beatles record in his or her life, they will have heard the songs countless times and boredom may have set in. More than ...