Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra - A Swingin' Safari (Remastered)

Styles: Jazz, Swing, Big Band 
Year: 1962
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 32:36
Size: 75,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:07)  1. A Swingin' Safari
(2:52)  2. That Happy Feeling
(2:30)  3. Market Day
(3:02)  4. Take Me
(2:56)  5. Similau
(2:48)  6. Zambesi
(2:26)  7. Afrikaan Beat
(2:37)  8. Happy Trumpeter
(2:08)  9. Tootie Flutie
(2:40) 10. Wimoweh
(2:35) 11. Black Beauty
(2:49) 12. Skokiaan

This album was recorded in the Polydor Studio in Hamburg-Rahlstedt by sound engineer Peter Klemt in December 1961 and in March 1962. This production was first released in the United States the following August under the title THAT HAPPY FEELING and had climbed to Number 14 in the charts by September of that year. The LP was then released on the European market with the title A SWINGIN’ SAFARI in autumn of the same year. The two Kaempfert compositions A Swingin’ Safari and Afrikaan Beat soon became world hits and have since become evergreens. The success of Take Me famous is down to Dean Martin’s vocal version of the number, and That Happy Feeling, Market Day and Happy Trumpeter were sensational, long-running hits on American radio. At that time, the typical Kaempfert rhythm had been enhanced by a titillating sound coming from the flutes: Bert Kaempfert modeled this music on the sound produced by blowing penny whistles (brass flutes) in the same particular way as in South African Kwela music. The style of this had been influenced by American swing and was very popular among young black people in the townships.

“Bert Kaempfert tried to get the piccolos to imitate the sound of penny whistles. We had real hard rehearsals. But at last we had made it and Bert was really pleased to have captured the charm of the whistles in ‘his’ piccolos,” reminisced bass guitarist Ladi Geisler. The intro to Afrikaan Beat is also one of the most unmistakable symbols of Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra today, with its typical ‘cracking bass’. Again Ladi Geisler recalls: “We musicians were, as always, gathered around one microphone. My amplifier was about 3 meters away, the same distance as the trombones. Bert Kaempfert advised me to go easy on the lower notes (these were to come from the double-bass) and the high notes were to be accentuated so that it would really ‘crack’. This was how the term for the Bert Kaempfert sound ‘cracking bass’ was born.” In the course of the years, Bert Kaempfert received a number of awards and gold LPs as a reward for the huge success of this album all over the world. But he was particularly delighted to receive a gold LP from South Africa. https://kaempfert.de/en/album/a-swingin-safari/

A Swingin' Safari (Remastered)

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Robyn Pauhl - Robyn Pauhl

Styles: Vocal 
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 24:18
Size: 56,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:51)  1. Beginning to Fall
(3:54)  2. All I Said
(4:05)  3. Meet Me in the Middle
(4:12)  4. Westbound Like the Sun
(3:46)  5. I Feel Nothing Now
(4:29)  6. Remember Me

Robyn Pauhl has over twenty years of performing experience, singing professionally since the age of eleven. She has opened shows for U.S. country stars George Jones at Lulu's in Kitchener, Loretta Lynn at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton and the International Center in Toronto. As well as for some eminent Canadian country acts such as, Michelle Wright, Prairie Oyster, Jason McCoy, Beverly Mahood, Jim Witter, jazz artist Carol Wellsman, and has performed in concert with world renowned jazz bassist, Dave Holland. An enthralling performer, Robyn has a voice that has enough power and range to make it worth remarking on. Robyn sounds as if her passion could swallow the world. What lifts her performances miles above nostalgia is that she delivers her feelings with astonishing power and ebullience. One can see the emotional intensity that Robyn brings to everything she sings. There is a sincerity in her singing that pierces her audiences, spurring an immediate connection with her listeners. She has been seen coast to coast, appearing on everything from local cable shows to highly rated television news programs such as, Canada AM, Breakfast Television and Global News. She has been featured on the cover of the Hamilton Magazine and a two page spread in Hmm...The Hamilton Men's Magazine.

In 2005, Robyn graduated with honours from the Humber College Music Program in Toronto, ON. She attained knowledge in theory, composition and arranging for string sections, horns, and big bands. She has thirteen years of teaching experience in vocal, theory, and piano. She is the winner of The 2009 Hamilton Music Award for People's Choice Independent Music Teacher of the Year and works with artists  on vocal pre-production at her studio.Robyn's lastest single was released, September 2013. The new material shows Robyn turn her passions back to country music. She produced and wrote her latest song, "All That I Want", with her eight year old student, Alyssa West! The single was engineered and co-produced with husband, Justin Koop at B Town Sound in Burlington. https://www.robynpauhl.ca/bio

Robyn Pauhl

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