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Charles Lloyd - Sangam
· ·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·- · Release Info:
█ Artist: Charles Lloyd
░ Title: Sangam
█ Release Date: Aug-01-2006
▓ Source: CDDA
▒ Encoder: LAME MP3
▓ Quality: VBR // 44.1kHz
░ Number of tracks: 09
▒ Size: 105,6 MB
▒ Label: ECM
▓ Genre: Jazz
█ Playtime: 74:59 min
· ·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-· · Release Notes/Reviews:
At this juncture in his life and career, Charles
Lloyd has become untouchable. His tone is so full of
depth that it sounds good to nearly everyone who
hears it; his scope is so broad that he can never be
accused of coasting, yet he remains fundamentally
listenable, so no one can throw labels like
"obscurantist" or "self-indulgent" at him, either. He
is spiritual but grounded, weird but accessible, old
as the hills but still youngish enough in his attack
that he seems to know the young man's game.
Sangam is a work full of drama and skill-around here,
it will end up on virtually everyone's top ten list,
and rightfully so-but its true genius lies not in its
star or its scenario (this is Lloyd's first live
album for ECM), but its casting. Zakir Hussain is
simply the greatest tabla player in the world, an
artist with enough credits on his own to deserve
major stardom. (Seriously, listen to the stuff he
does with Tabla Beat Science, which is truly the
cutting edge of world-music jazz.) And Eric Harland
is a name that should be as well-known now as that of
any other living drummer. For Lloyd, a man who is
always on a quest, these are the ultimate wingmen;
they let him soar when he wants to, but they are also
fully capable of burning on their own.
But they don't, at least not very often. This is no
free jazz freakout, but a carefully planned jazz work
that just happens to sound like it's all spontaneous.
Lloyd leads this percussion-heavy trio through older
songs like "Hymn to the Mother" and newer ones, but
no one ever seems to miss a step or blow an
opportunity to soar. "Tender Warriors" chugs right
along on a bed of soft drum-shuffle and insistent
tabla-tapping and thumping, while Lloyd searches for
the universe with his tenor. The title track brings
Harland more to the fore, laying down a dense and
tense martial cadence for Hussain to riff overùit's
funky and complex and scary, and you can almost hear
the audience sigh with relief (and a little sadness)
when Lloyd's Coltrane-ish lead rides in to save the
day.
But Sangam is not all about defined roles. Each
player steps up to take the lead sometimes; I'm
telling you, you haven't lived until you've heard
Hussain play the melody from Sonny Rollins' "St.
Thomas" on his tuned hand-drums. And I love how
Harland is capable of playing the spooky repeated
figure on piano during "Gunam" so that Hussain can do
his deep, compelling vocalization before Lloyd comes
back in with his flute.
I am not sure what will come of this project. After
all, it was recorded in 2004, and there hasn't been a
studio album from these guys yet. I don't know if
they're working on any more projects together. And I
don't know why certain songs are titled "Nataraj" and
"Tales of Rumi," or their deeper significance. All I
really know is that this album captures the three
grooviest motherfuckers in the world, all playing
together perfectly, and it deserves some serious
consideration as what ESPN would call "an instant
classic".
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=21460
Personnel: Charles Lloyd: tenor and alto saxophones,
tarogato, bass and alto flutes, piano, percussion;
Zakir Hussain: tabla, voice, percussion; Eric
Harland: drums, percussion, piano.
· ·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-··-·-·-·- · Track Listing:
01. dancing on one foot [09:05]
02. tales of rumi [11:59]
03. sangam [09:20]
04. nataraj [02:47]
05. guman [11:40]
06. tender warriors [08:56]
07. hymn to the mother [11:50]
08. lady in the harbour [03:28]
09. little peace [05:54]
· ·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-· · Group Notes:
While keeping loyal to our broad music taste, roaming from
jazz and blues to quality world or top rock music, we've also
lately began covering some live events; not regularly, but with
artist-per-release approach, not releasing records that were
already introduced from other stage performances of the band's
same tour, and also only doing this year's, and always quality,
bootlegs. As you might have also noticed, there has been more
satellite versions of certain shows, or even cd press releases
of them.
But we would like that seen as extra work, because our main
concern was - and always will be - retail cd music. Last but
not least, it's imporant to announce that we finally cut down
on our little smoked-out tagging with first capitals, dots on
dates and all that. We tried to be original, but it turned out
that it only bothered people. So, from now on, we stick to
strict tagging rules, and please note that we've also cancalled
the RARE_JAZZ label and that all of our Jazz releases now come
out under the main group's tagging.
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. // 2006 //