http://www.allcityrecordlabel.com
https://soundcloud.com/onra
https://soundcloud.com/buddy-sativa

Country : France
Genre : Abstract Jazz , World Jazz
Style : Experimental , Jazz Psychedelic , Indica

Label : All City Records
Year : 2013

12 track spiritual, deep jazz LP from Parisian producer Onra and friend – fellow producer, composer and arranger – Buddy Sativa. Combining as the Yatha Bhuta Jazz Combo this LP may be a surprise to followers of Onra, while Buddy Sativa will be known to some via his own 2011 jazz leaning LP “Deus Ex Machina” on Favorite Records. There they collaborated on their first jazz track -”Indica”. Pleased with the results they carried on, keeping it simple and adhering to straightforward play-more-jazz stylings they have crafted this LP over sessions sandwiched between their assorted commitments over the last two years. Opening the LP “Universe is Love”, a shout to Lonnie Liston Smith, is the first track they created under the new no-rules-spontaneity rules. The rest of the LP was created in a similar vein – a drum pattern for tempo or a bassline for tone and layering instrumentation repeatedly on top. Mistakes allowed and encouraged!

Spoken word from Brooklyn poet Aja Monet on “The Time is Now”, otherwise its an instrumental trip.So Yatha Bhuta – as it really is, insight, a mix of experience and spontaneity, a LP not created for release, more a liberating, therapeutic break from their other oft constraining aliases. Jazz because they like it and not for the sake of it, a chance meeting with the late Mati Klarweins son at an exhibition in Dublin, led to the icing on the cake as the record is beautifully housed by the artists “Conceptual Tree” painting.

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Tracklist :

1. UNIVERSE IS LOVE
2. UFO PARADISE
3. DARK KARMA
4. 360°
5. THE MUSE INSIDE
6. ENDANGERED SPECIES
7. HONEY, HASH, ROSE
8. THE GARDEN OF HEAVENLY DELIGHTS
9. THE TIME IS NOW
10. COS (X)
11. UNTITLED (AFROJAZZ)
12. WANDERING, WONDERING

Yatha Bhuta Jazz Combo - Untitled from 100to on Vimeo.

https://www.myspace.com/romamorensemble

Origine du Groupe : Italia
Style : Folk , Jazz World
Sortie : 2012

From http://www.oldeuropacafe.com
Somewhere between the melodic folk-inflected charm of Italian 60’s songwriters and the cabaret swoon of French chansonniers, Roma Amor’s new album is instinctively romantic and sophisticated. This album will seduce you with its summer-evening mellowness before breaking your heart with its beautifully sensual croon.
Wonderful ballads and torch songs about love inspired by the epic, fatalistic rugged grandeur of Aznavour, Brel, Piaf, and 60’s Italian songwriters, though in a much quieter and more delicate setting.
The album is sung in Italian with some French touches and the songs are from Roma Amor’s own harvest.
The result isn't experimental or innovative, but an acoustic and intimate album for fans of well-crafted singer-songwriting.


Tracklist :
1. Occhi Neri
2. Mon Amour
3. Le Coeur Au Chaud
4. A Te Che Mi Vinci
5. Disertore
6. Euforia
7. La Concièrge
8. Mélancolie
9. Elle Est Seule
10. Sensualità
11. Fuoco Sottile
12. Madrigale

http://www.nguyen-le.com

http://www.paolofresu.it

http://www.dhaferyoussef.com


Origine du Groupe : France , Sardinia , Tunisia
Style : Alternative Fusion World Music , Jazz World
Sortie : 2006

From http://www.allaboutjazz.com

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 since—prominent 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 include—but aren’t limited to—post-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 “Chelsea Bridge”), 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 tracks—average length three minutes, a handful six or seven—resemble 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.


Tracklist :
1 -  Stranieri (Paolo Fresu / Nguyên Lê) (06:00)
2 -  Byzance (Dhafer Youssef / Nguyên Lê) (04:25)
3 -  Muqqam (Dhafer Youssef) (02:44)
4 -  Mali Iwa (Nguyên Lê) (06:27)
5 -  Zafaran (Dhafer Youssef / Nguyen Le) (06:02)
6 -  Domus de Janas (Paolo Fresu / Nguyên Lê) (02:18)
7 – Kithara (Dhafer Youssef) (02:18)
8 -  Chelsea Bridge (Billy Strayhorn) (03:00)
9 -  Safina (Dhafer Youssef / Nguyên Lê) (03:27)
10 -  Des Pres (Paolo Fresu / Nguyên Lê) (02:19)
11 -  Thang Long (Nguyên Lê) (05:33)
12 -  Neon (Paolo Fresu / Nguyên Lê) (03:12)
13 -  Mangustao (Dominique Borker) (07:26)
14 -  Lacrima Christi (Paolo Fresu / Nguyên Lê) (03:14)
15 -  Beyti (Dhafer Youssef / Nguyên Lê) (02:53)

https://www.myspace.com/johnzorn


Origine du Groupe : North America
Style : Jazz
Sortie : 2011

By Tim  from http://jazzandblues.blogspot.fr

When I was in college I had to take one humanities class to fulfill a requirement for graduation. I took a class on the visionary poet and engraver William Blake. I found it fascinating, although I admit that some of his more complex later works were a bit beyond me. Blake's work has had an effect on composer John Zorn as well, and he put together this suite performed by John Medeski on piano and organ, Kenny Wollesen on vibes, Trevor Dunn on bass and Joey Baron on drums. The music takes on a mystical and hypnotic feel, perfect for someone like Blake who claimed to see visions throughout his life. The most evocative pieces on the album for me were "A Dream of Nine Nights" and "Dance of Albion." The first opens with delicate piano, developing a spritely air with vibes probing and the whole improvisation anchored by strong loping and elastic bass and deeply rippling piano. The latter has a feel akin to Zorn's The Dreamers project with Medeski developing a repetitive piano riff, working dexterously, before cycling into a strong and ominous section, like dark clouds gathering on the horizon. "Liber XV" is evocative as well, with Medeski shifting to organ, and Wollesen playing dampened sounding vibes. Rattling drumwork adds to the eerie feel of the music. This music sheds light on Zorn as a composer, and it is interesting how he takes inspiration from different and diverse sources and communicates them to his fellow musicians.


Tracklist :
1 Eternals
2 Song of Innocence
3 Dream of Nine Nights
4 Light Forms
5 Aeons
6 Liber XV
7 Dance of Albion
8 Song of Experience

http://www.myspace.com/wolfgangmuthspiel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slava_Grigoryan

http://ralphtowner.com

Origine du Groupe : Austria , Australia , North America
Style : Jazz World , Jazz Guitar , Folk , Instrumental
Sortie : 2008

From http://www.cduniverse.com

Internationally acclaimed guitar masters Wolfgang Muthspiel, Slava Grigoryan and Ralph Towner working under the moniker of MGT release their debut album, 'From a Dream'. Grigoryan's virtuosity has earned him a cult following in Australia and Muthspiel's reputation stretches well beyond the borders of his homeland, Austria. The American-born Towner is a celebrated acoustic guitarist who is known as a truly inspirational innovator on the modern musical landscape. He has made many notable recordings of jazz, classical music, folk music and world music over the several decades

Tracklist :
01 - Tammuriata
02 - In Stride
03 - Beneath an Evening Sky
04 - Nardis
05 - From a Dream
06 - Eos
07 - Chez Ta-Dah
08 - Icarus
09 - Bird's Eye View
10 - Hand in Hand