Size: 119,4 MB
Time: 50:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz: Gipsy Jazz
Art: Front
01. Jungle's Jingles (3:20)
02. Evasione E Fuga In Re Minore (3:36)
03. Tanguera (4:40)
04. Bluesette (3:44)
05. Hong Kong Alley Cat (3:18)
06. The Philly Dog (4:21)
07. Waiting Room Harlem Station (3:33)
08. Fat Cat Express (3:17)
09. Sweet Suez (2:55)
10. Montgolfieres (4:07)
11. Around The City (3:21)
12. Gypsy Rondo (2:44)
13. Nuages (3:32)
14. Lino's Flight (4:06)
Gypsy Wanderlust
Size: 108,6 MB
Time: 46:12
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz: Gipsy Jazz
Label: Cose Sonore
Art: Front
01. Tornerai (2:57)
02. Mille Lire Al Mese (3:00)
03. Amore Fermati (4:50)
04. Spaghetti A Detroit (4:25)
05. Canzone Da Due Soldi (4:00)
06. Baciami Piccina (3:38)
07. Tu Si 'na Cosa Grande (3:49)
08. Sono Ricco (3:51)
09. Parla Piu Piano (4:03)
10. Blues Stereophonique (3:49)
11. Donna (4:40)
12. Guarda Che Luna (3:05)
Personnel:
Lino Brotto - Lead Guitar
Mattia Martorano - Violin
Andrea Boschetti - Rhythm Guitar
Giuseppe Pilotto - Double Bass
Remarkable experience of musical research, Alma Swing follows a typical european tradition, which was (between the Thirties and the Forties, as still today) hot jazz. This genre was contaminated by the manouche culture of the North Europe gypsies, as well as by the parisian popular fashion and the afro-american swing craze. Apart from the US events, Alma Swing holds in the aesthetic bases of a string jazz with direct reference to Django Reinhardt's guitar style and Stéphane Grappelli's finesse. Those were certainly among the main heroes of french jazz. Thanks to a variety of program and show proposals, Alma Swing opens to the current time the most peculiar contents of this music, from the repertory and the executive procedures, carried out by means of the typical set of instruments and the melting pot of jazz and gypsy idioms. According to a rétro orchestra silhouette and to an acoustic line up, where the typical manouche guitars and the fiddle are protagonists, Alma Swing plays with personality the suggestions of an age impressed in the vinyl and in the grammophons voices, remarking the contemporary wide success of music.
Lino Brotto - Lead Guitar
Mattia Martorano - Violin
Andrea Boschetti - Rhythm Guitar
Giuseppe Pilotto - Double Bass
Remarkable experience of musical research, Alma Swing follows a typical european tradition, which was (between the Thirties and the Forties, as still today) hot jazz. This genre was contaminated by the manouche culture of the North Europe gypsies, as well as by the parisian popular fashion and the afro-american swing craze. Apart from the US events, Alma Swing holds in the aesthetic bases of a string jazz with direct reference to Django Reinhardt's guitar style and Stéphane Grappelli's finesse. Those were certainly among the main heroes of french jazz. Thanks to a variety of program and show proposals, Alma Swing opens to the current time the most peculiar contents of this music, from the repertory and the executive procedures, carried out by means of the typical set of instruments and the melting pot of jazz and gypsy idioms. According to a rétro orchestra silhouette and to an acoustic line up, where the typical manouche guitars and the fiddle are protagonists, Alma Swing plays with personality the suggestions of an age impressed in the vinyl and in the grammophons voices, remarking the contemporary wide success of music.
Django En Italie
Well, thanks once again, Silky Denims people! Sometimes I am consumed by curiosity as to how you guys do this amazing thing you do. A second later I realize it is probably just as well I do NOT know. But on to cases: My wife and I both loved Alma Swing’s “Rythme Futur.” That’s the first CD you put up by this group, I think about three weeks ago. We have listened to it repeatedly. From the posting on which I am commenting now, it’s “Django em Italie” that we listened to first. First cut was “Tornerai” – which, as most Silky followers will probably know, was one of 1930s Europe’s great heartbreak-of-the-boys-going-off-to-war-maybe-never-to-come-back songs, and for me it’s a sucker punch that I am happy to take again and again. Even without the French lyrics (infinitely more wrenching that the original Italian lyrics); even, as in the present case, without any lyrics at all, it always brings tears to my eyes. Gotta admit, though, there was then, for both of us, something of chat-amongst-yourselves time until we got to the seductive “Parla Piu Piano” and then, at the end, “Guarda Che Luna.” On the album “Gypsy Wanderlust,” which we got to later, we loved the cut under the title “Nuages” and of course we liked “Bluesette,” but that’s another sucker punch, isn’t it? I think I know what my problem is. Except for the cuts I single out, these two albums are more frenetic than “Rythme Futur.” There are people who will like that neo-gypsy (or is it ersatz gypsy?) freneticism. I myself am attuned to the violin legato. The violin sustains a note. I am less nuts about the guitars, which by their very nature do not sustain notes. By the way, there are some nice clarinet riffs in the “Django em Italie,” even if not credited in the Silky Denims blurb. Please do not mistake my efforts to balance good and great with less good and less great for criticism of the stellar thing you guys do in making all this music available to us. What you do is . . . well, I guess Promethean is the word. It’s taking fire from the gods.
ReplyDeletewonderful upload and also awesome comment by Mark
ReplyDelete@Mark: look for Joscho Stephan, a German gypsy guitarist.
ReplyDeletedear G., please be kind to refresh these superb albums! thanx
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