Artist : Michel Legrand Et Son Orchestre
Title : Archi-Cordes (1964)
Genre : Easy Listening / Jazz
Year : 2009
Date : 06/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 12
Label : Vadim Music / Philips
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 29:30 min
Size : 46,10 MB
Tracklist:
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01.di-gue-ding-ding 02:41
02.noix de coco 02:25
03.orange blossom special 02:50
04.come ray and come charles 02:38
05.hi girls 02:36
06.manhattan stroll 02:33
07.alcatraz 01:41
08.da-we-da 02:42
09.monkey business 02:45
10.come ride with me 02:07
11.motor-city 02:16
12.bandol 02:16
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29:30 min
At the dawn of the 60Æs, well before popÆs ascensionnotes
along with its given extravagances, a few turbulent
arrangers and other exceptionally gifted orchestrators
were already attempting out of the ordinary musical
experiences, amusing themselves by using major
orchestras in a fully-fledged laboratory capacity.
They would do so by using stereophonic effects,
exotic percussion and alternatively played instruments
to give their compositions strange colours and
audacious perspectives. Michel Legrand, a rapidly rising
young composer at this time and breaking with the
most complex writing techniques, was part of this
generation of untamed conductors with very big ideas
within which included a wide array of personalities from
Esquival, Les Baxter and Lalo Schifrin to Quincy Jones.
This fabulous record, with its killer energy was
rediscovered for the first time during the easy listening
revival of 1996, via the seminal English compilation ôIn
Flightö which included 2 tracks. ôArchi-cordesö, is a
measure of LegrandÆs excess and craziness which
destroys everything in its path and embodies a sumptuous
collection of instrumentals that are born and bred for the
dancefloor. Fevered twist, jerk, hully gully and Latin jazz
light an unprecedented rhythmic fire which steps up to
incessantly kindle attacks of tempestuous chords, while
flashes of blinding scat shoot through this musical inferno,
reminding us of LegrandÆs love of jazz. Subtitled: ôDi-gue-
ding-dingàdanse,ö this cult opus is a fantastic declaration
of love for all that is rhythm, dance and movement.
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