BAHAMA SOUL
CLUB – HAVANA 58
The Bahama
Soul Club are a German-based group whose unique blend of soul, jazz, funk,
blues, bossa nova, afro and Caribbean influences has firmly put them on the map
of the black music scene as one of the most exciting contemporary outfits. On
their 4th album "Havana '58", Bahama Soul Club present a very
personal soundtrack, a musical homage, inspired by a vibrant verve that never
came back. We encounter a heady blend of glittering nightclubs, outrageous
cabarets, fashionable hotels, backstreet brothels, empty wallets and bemusing
décolletées. Bahama Soul Club establish an elegant and percussive cocktail of
Latin Jazz, Soul, Bossa and Boogaloo, adding the dark, sensual, and alluring
mystic of Tiki and Exotica into the mix. More than mambo mania and tiring salsa
they stand for swinging lightness and the pulsating cosmopolitan lifestyle of
the contemporary Cuban scene. Special guests include: American Jazz and Soul
singer Brenda Boykin, Cuba’s leading vocal quartet Sexto Sentido, Bahama Soul Club
live band's singer Olvido Ruiz and Cuban songwriter Arema Arega.
JIMI TENOR -
SAXENTRIC
Jimi Tenor
looks shrunken in size on the cover, but that certainly hasn't happened to his
music – which just seems bigger and more expansive on this wonderful release!
The set's still very much in the spiritual jazz mode that Tenor's been touching
for the past decade or so – but it also showcases some of the soulful strands
that have always been in his music, as Jimi finds a way to bring the cosmos
down to earth with some really wonderful tunes that mix up a variety of
different rhythmic and instrumental modes! The lineup shifts a bit on each
track – and includes a great guest appearance from Tony Allen – but most cuts
focus on core energy from Tenor, who not only plays tenor, percussion,
keyboards, flute, moog, and more – but also sings with a style that's
wonderfully soulful, and really holds the whole thing together. We always love
Jimi's music, but this set's got a really special "something extra" –
and a much deeper sound than you'd expect from the cover. Titles include
"Magick Of Choice", "Polygonal", "Peaceful
Maelstrom", "Four Corners Of The Earth", "Cap De
Creus", "Vortex", "My Baby Is Coming", "Ursa
Major", and "Baby Pharoah". ~ Dusty Groove
TOM ZE –
CANCOES EROTICAS DE NINAR
From the
eyeball on the cover, right down to the sounds on the disc, Tom Ze once again
blurs the boundaries between body and mind with his music – by giving us tunes
that are playful and catchy, but also filled with madness and intelligence too!
Ze's wit is as razor-sharp as ever, carried across here with instrumentation
that's very much in the best modes of his later years – almost familiar, but
always offbeat – as if Tom's turning Brazilian songforms inside out, in service
of his lyrical wordplay. The album's definitely got some of the erotic bent
hinted at in the title, but also has a lot more going on too – on titles that
include "Por Baixo", "Arroz Lenda E Buque",
"Descaracao Familiar", "Sexo", "Sobe Ni Mim",
"Urgenica Didatica", and "Cade Mane". ~ Dusty Groove
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