Release : Sapporo Sound Motel - Musique Noir
Artist : Sapporo Sound Motel
Album : Musique Noir
Genre : Lo-Fi
Source : CDDA
Label : new format
URL : www.phazzadelic.com
Date : 03/10/2006
Quality : VBRkbps 44,1 kHz Joint-Stereo
Tracks : 01
Time : 56:48 min
Size : 80,6 MB
Musique Noir
01 Sapporo Sound Motel - Sapporo Blue
02 Sapporo Sound Motel - Smile
03 Sapporo Sound Motel - Tenderly
04 Sapporo Sound Motel - Killing
05 Sapporo Sound Motel - Girl From Ipanema
06 Sapporo Sound Motel - You And The Night And The Music
07 Sapporo Sound Motel - Elektrolade
08 Sapporo Sound Motel - Come Rain Or Come Shine
09 Sapporo Sound Motel - It Might As Well Be Spring
"Film Noir (literally 'black film or cinema') as an American Genre was
coined by French film critics who noticed the trend of how 'dark' and
black the looks and themes were of many American crime and detective films
released. It was a style of black and white American films that first
evolved in the 1940s, became prominent in the post-war era, and lasted in
a classic "Golden Age" period until about 1960. Noirs were noted for their
stark camera angles and movements, chiaroscuro lighting and shadowy,
high-contrast images - all elements of later film noir. They reflected the
resultant tensions and insecurities of the time period, and
counter-balanced the optimism of Hollywood's musicals and comedies. Fear,
mistrust, bleakness and paranoia are readily evident in noir, reflecting
the 'chilly' Cold War period when the threat of nuclear annihilation was
ever-present. The criminal, violent, misogynistic, hard-boiled, or greedy
perspectives of anti-heroes in film noir were a metaphoric symptom of
society's evils, with a strong undercurrent of moral conflict."
Jazz as an American Genre, allegorised by European musicans, coined by a
singer with french attitude and mysterious beauty, charged with dark
appearing urban sounds, accompanied with a solitary bass and a cynical
sax, coined by a producer with a Machiavellian handling of compositions,
standards and known melodies. This all provides the framework of "Musique
Noir". Everything centers the musical moment: as ä Deadly Is the Femaleô
the äStrangers on a Trainô get äDouble Indemnit ô for the "The Maltese
Falcon" running on "The Asphalt Jungle", but the äBlade Runnerô
finalising äThe Killingô in äChinatownô travelling the äLost Highwayô to
äSin Cityô, finally deciding to stay at the äSapporo Sound Motelô. The
drumless band playing at the foyer appears to be a chamber music ensemble,
but the electronic beats and breaks stage-manage something different and
by creating a sound of such intimacy, only love can affect, nothing seems
to be important than just the music between you and me.
Not even the assumed life between bars and nightclubs û there is just the
Jazz flowing through the veins and making you tapping, dancing, moving
through the real life.
Like the film noir fascinated different audiences, "Musique Noir" will
fascinate as well a younger audience as people with different musical
preferences as traditional Jazz lovers.
The founder of "Sapporo Sound Motel", German Jazz guitarist Christian
Eckert is described as "one who prefers to acknowledge his romantic
sensibility or reveal his melancholy moods rather than to get carried away
with soulless fingerboard sprints...a reflective tone-picker...reminiscent
of Jim Hall and Pat Metheny..". This is a reasonable description - there's
no sprinting here, just thoughtful one-note plucking, backed up by "an
immensely homogeneous ensemble" that has performed together for several
years now.
His CD "UP!" has been into the Top20 of the US Jazz-Charts (best placed at
4!) for several months. Together with Ulli Juenemann (sax), Eva Mayerhofer
(vocals) and Jens Loh (bass) four impressive musicians of the German Jazz
scene have come together to travel through (Jazz) time and space.
Enjoy!
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