Artist: Renaud Garcia-Fons
Album: Oriental Bass
Genre: Contemporary Jazz, World Fusion
Label: Enja Records
Released: 1997
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Oriental Bass (06:34)
- San Juan (08:54)
- Goodjinns (05:19)
- Oryssa (07:14)
- Ghazali (02:58)
- Jullundur (03:52)
- Hommage A Ostat (05:53)
- Bajo Andaluz (03:41)
- Jam Buleria (03:02)
- Djani (07:43)
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- Personnel:
- Renaud Garcia-Fons - 5-string bass, palmas, percussion
- Jean-Louis Matinier - accordion
- Yves Favre - trombone
- Bruno Sansalone - clarinet
- Chris Hayward - flutes
- Vicente Pradal - flamenco guitar, palmas
- Claire Antonini - lute, théorbe
- Rabah Khalfa, Jean-Francois Roger, Sam Schlamminger, Ana Yerno - oriental percussion & palmas
Following his solo recording "Légendes" and the quartet album "Alboreá" (both of which received highest ratings from critics all over the world), Renaud's east-western synthesis comes to a climax on "Oriental Bass". Says Renaud: "I had a dream about a bass - half Gypsy, half Mauretanian - that travelled from India to Andalusia passing by the Mediterranean north or south. The bass is neither a traditional nor an oriental instrument. But its range of sonorities and the ways it is played upon - both pizzicato and con arco - seem to make it feel comfortable in the neighbourhood of certain instruments at home in the oriental world. For several years now my work - composing and improvising - has been led by these relationships and by the love the bass brings to all of this music. This is how the idea for this album was born."
Assisted by a wide variety of musicians and instruments from diverse ethnic background, Renaud's visionary masterwork "Oriental Bass" is definitely a highlight of 1997's cross-cultural vintage. "Garcia-Fons' music exists in a space of its own beyond jazz, world beat or any other category"
Larry Katz