Release : NguyΩn LΩ Duos - Homescape
Artist : NguyΩn LΩ Duos
Album : Homescape
Genre : Jazz
Source : CDDA
Label : ACT Music
URL :
Date : 2006-03-24
Encoder : LAME 3.90.3 / alt-preset standard
Quality : 194kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 15
Time : 60:44 min
Size : 90.19
1 Stranieri 5:59
2 Byzance 4:22
3 Muqqam 2:41
4 Mali Iwa 6:25
5 Zafaran 5:58
6 Domus de Janas 2:15
7 KithΓra 2:16
8 Chelsea Bridge 3:00
9 Safina 3:26
10 Des PrΘs 2:17
11 Thang Long 5:30
12 Neon 3:09
13 Mangustao 7:23
14 Lacrima Christi 3:11
15 Beyti 2:52
Where does jazz stop and world music start? The boundaries are getting more
blurred by the minute. We're all postmodernists now, and many musicians under
fifty reflect a range of influences beyond those traditionally associated with
their own core style. Some, like French-Vietnamese guitarist Nguyen Le, are so
polyglot as to be practically beyond category.
Le started out down the cultural miscenegation road with his first band, the
multi-ethnic Ultramarine, whose 1989 album, De, was named World Music Album of
the Year by the radical French newspaper Liberation. He's continued to mix it up
ever sinceùprominent genre-benders he's worked with include Miroslav Vitous,
Trilok Gurtu, David Liebman, Paul McCandless, Peter Erskine and Mino Cinelu. In
the late 1990s Le became increasingly interested in Maghrebi music, working with
Algerian singers Safy Boutella and Cheb Mami, and in 1998 he brought Maghrebi
and Vietnamese musicians together on the album Maghrebi & Friends.
None of this, however, can prepare you for the galaxy of sound sources on
Homescape, a series of alternating duets with Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu
and Tunisian oud player Dhafer Youssef. Some of these sources are developed and
explored, others are referred to only in passing, and they includeùbut aren't
limited toùpost-Hendrix rock, Milesian harmon-mute free improv, Maghrebi trance
music, Ellingtonia, ambient, a Papua New Guinea vocal choir (sampled and
replayed backwards), Delta blues, Vietnamese folk tunes, flamenco, Iranian
modes, a Sardinian choir, Australian aboriginal ritual music, French chanson,
Gregorian chant, and Indonesian gamelan/gong music.
Guitars, trumpet/flugelhorn and oud aside, the music is generated by loops,
samples and overdubs, and the entire heavily post-produced album was recorded
and mixed in Le's Paris apartment - since 2003, his friends and neighbours Fresu
and Youssef have been dropping by to home-record. The duets with Fresu are
typically in free-improv mode (the exception being Duke Ellington & Billy
Strayhorn's lovely ôChelsea Bridgeö), while the Youssef duets tend to be song or
structure-based.
In the main sunny and joyful, though not without some darker and more abrasive
moments, the fifteen tracksùaverage length three minutes, a handful six or
sevenùresemble a series of round-the-world postcards sent by Le, who mixed and
post-produced everything solo, to his collaborators. As a soundtrack to an
evening communing with the big bamboo, the exotic and the very exotic drifting
in and out of the mix, it's rich, colourful and beguiling.
Enjoy...
Thx To Support Artists!
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