Quadro Nuevo - Grand Voyage

Styles: Latin Jazz
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:26
Size: 175,7 MB
Art: Front

(5:57)  1. Die Reise nach Batumi
(2:30)  2. Cançao Do Mar.mp3
(3:16)  3. Cien Años
(5:35)  4. Krim
(5:14)  5. Samba para parapente
(4:56)  6. Aus der Stille der Nacht
(5:06)  7. Nature Boy
(4:12)  8. Die Abenteurer
(6:34)  9. Lethe
(6:36) 10. Antakya - Concert Version
(4:33) 11. Meteora
(2:26) 12. Secret Garden
(2:31) 13. Mosaique Tunisienne (Morning)
(2:23) 14. Mosaique Tunisienne (Afternoon)
(3:30) 15. Mosaique Tunisienne (Night)
(3:53) 16. Goaz boq Muzik
(4:01) 17. Dopo Lo Spettacolo
(5:33) 18. Die Reise nach Batumi - Orchestral Version

Songs of a Grand Voyage. The baggage filled with melodies that were collected along the way. Every tone tells you a story about a new encounter and takes the listener on an epic adventure. Every song was recorded on a different place on this earth and represents the unique vibrations of those special locations. https://www.glm.de/en/product/quadro-nuevo-grand-voyage/

Personnel: Mulo Francel saxophones, clarinets, mandoline, glockenspiel, monochord, guitar on 6, bouzouki on 11; Robert Wolf guitar, bouzouki, piano on 17, steel drum; D.D. Lowka  acoustic bass, percussion, xylophone, cymbalom; Andreas Hinterseher  accordion, vibrandoneon, bandoneon, piano on 4; Evelyn Huber concert grand harp, single pedal harp, salterio

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Quadro Nuevo - Tango Bitter Sweet

Styles: Latin Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:00
Size: 163,7 MB
Art: Front

(4:53)  1. L' ete Indien
(4:32)  2. Swing Vagabond
(4:09)  3. Petite Fleur
(3:50)  4. Tango Bitter Sweet
(4:44)  5. Paroles, Paroles
(1:55)  6. The Windmills of Your Mind
(5:08)  7. Tango Jalousie
(4:13)  8. Avant De Mourir
(4:20)  9. Malafemmena
(4:43) 10. Milonga Tati
(5:11) 11. Et Maintenant
(3:28) 12. An Einem Winterabend
(4:35) 13. Mude Sonne
(2:02) 14. Isla De Las Mujeres
(4:06) 15. Gloomy Sunday
(1:31) 16. Afternoon
(2:55) 17. At Night
(3:35) 18. Sabre Dance

There was a time when doing something experimental in tango could not only result in bad reviews from music critics who didn't understand what you were doing it could also result in bodily harm. The late Astor Piazzolla, often hailed as the Charlie Parker of tango, was literally beaten up in the streets of Buenos Aires by opponents who disliked his vision of tango (which was a major departure from the old-school tango of Carlos Gardel, Carlos Di Sarli, Aníbal Troilo and Hugo del Carril). But these days, Piazzolla-minded tango is very much the norm and tango enthusiasts are unlikely to resort to fisticuffs even if an artist does something expansive that they don't comprehend. The word "expansive" easily applies to Quadro Nuevo, a European tango-oriented quartet that takes a lot of chances on their 2006 recording Tango Bitter Sweet. This 69-minute CD has a strong Piazzolla influence, which is hardly unusual in the 21st century; the tiny, insignificant minority of people who still consider Piazzolla a musical heretic are like the tiny, insignificant minority of people who still believe that Dixieland is the only legitimate form of jazz. What makes Tango Bitter Sweet unusual is the way Quadro Nuevo combines that Piazzolla influence with so many non-tango influences; during the course of the album, elements of Piazzolla are blended with everything from Brazilian samba to French chanson to Italian and Mediterranean folk to jazz. One of the selections, in fact, is an intriguing arrangement of Sidney Bechet's "Petite Fleur"and there are plenty of other songs on this disc that originated outside of tango but receive a tango makeover, including Michel Legrand's "The Windmills of Your Mind" and Rezso Seress' "Gloomy Sunday" (a Hungarian gem that found its way to jazz after receiving English lyrics and being recorded by Artie Shaw and Billie Holiday in the early '40s). But Tango Bitter Sweet, for all its risk-taking, is ultimately a very charming and accessible album. The solos are quite lyrical, and Tango Bitter Sweet is happily recommended to anyone who is seeking something fresh from tango. ~ Alex Henderson https://www.allmusic.com/album/tango-bitter-sweet-mw0000559509

Personnel:  Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Saxophone [C-Melody Sax], Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Contrabass Clarinet, Mandolin, Vibraphone – Mulo Francel;  Accordion, Melodica [Vibrandoneon], Piano – Andreas Hinterseher;  Acoustic Bass, Percussion, Vocals – D.D. Lowka;  Guitar – Robert Wolf

Tango Bitter Sweet

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Quadro Nuevo, Cairo Steps - Flying Carpet

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:50
Size: 169.0 MB
Styles: World music
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[6:33] 1. Shams
[7:33] 2. Flying Carpet
[6:20] 3. Symphony For The Sheik
[6:32] 4. Nilade
[6:29] 5. Dance Du Nil
[3:44] 6. Ikarus' Dream
[4:32] 7. Café Cairo
[6:14] 8. Gardens Of Damanhur
[6:47] 9. Tiepolo
[6:22] 10. Sansibar
[5:24] 11. Arabiskan
[7:14] 12. Gnossienne No. 1

Hailing from Germany, Quadro Nuevo has built a career assimilating musical influences from around the globe. While it's not unjustified to call them a jazz group, they've elevated their sound exploring the worlds of Argentinian tango, Austrian classical traditions, Indian raga, and Romanian folk customs, among others. The term “world music" may be a bit diluted and vague after years of being thrown about by record labels and PR firms (besides, isn't all music of our world?), but Quadro Nuevo has unquestionably earned the title considering their passport-friendly approach to composition and improvisation over the past 20 years.

With Flying Carpet they've collaborated with Cairo Steps, a relatively new collective by way of Egypt spearheaded by pianist Matthias Frey and oud virtuoso Basem Darwisch. Based on their first collaboration from back in January 2017, Flying Carpet features Quadro Nuevo and Cairo Steps building their unified sound augmented by the inclusion of flute, string quartet, and notable Sufi singers Ali El Helwabi and Sheikh Ehab Younis. The album features a tasteful blending of instruments and musical elements of widely divergent cultures, albeit while still exploring familiar ground for Quadro Nuevo. The Cairo Steps flex their musical influence right away in open track “Shams". A darbuka and duduk (Arabic percussion and wind instruments, respectively) open the tune with an exotic soundscape, later built up by Bollywood-inspired strings. Darwisch, Quadro's sax player Mulo Francel, and Cairo's duduk player Rageed William shine as they toss around the melody and trade solos, accentuating the drama without indulging in improvisational cliches. Title track “Flying Carpet" is more reserved, built upon a slow, alluring groove with ample space and ambiance.

Inevitably, most of the tracks on the album fall within the same structure of trading melodies and solos around the group, giving everyone a chance to shine. It's the path Quadro Nuevo tends to take (and Cairo Steps readily adapts) of blending global influences into song and improvisation structures at home in jazz. Despite treading on familiar territory, this variety of musical influences keep Flying Carpet feeling fresh and energized. The songs themselves may sound traditional, but it's the uniting of colors between European and Arabic instruments on tracks like “Tiepolo" and “Ikarus' Dream" gives the album depth. Inevitably, both Quadro Nuevo and Cairo Steps risk exploiting their diverse character as style over substance. It's intriguing to hear the blending of different musical cultures, but groups that embrace the “world music" tag for commercial purposes, inevitably, tend to sound stale. Notably, much of Flying Carpet works as both groups use the album to explore their sounds and test interactions. The Egypt-meets-Vienna waltz of “Café Cairo" thrives on its cross-cultural character, while the driving “Nilade" shines through the subtle yet colorful harp work of Evelyn Huber.

The closing track, a reading of Erik Satie's “Gnossienne No. 1" recorded live, best sums up the spirit of Flying Carpet. The French composer's work becomes source material primarily for improvisation, specifically from Cairo Steps who use their musical language to explore how Arabic elements fit within the Western classical tradition. While the recording does not break any new musical ground, it stands as a fine release for both groups, and a testament to how music can unite cultures under the same structures. ~Andy Jurik

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Quadro Nuevo - Impala (Parts 1 & 2)

Mulo Francel: Saxophone, Klarinetten; D.D. Lowka: Kontrabass, Perkussion; Andreas Hinterseher: Akkordeon, Vibrandoneon, Bandoneon; Evelyn Huber: Harfe, Salterio; Chris Gall: Piano.

Quadro Nuevo is the European answer to the Argentine Tango. Arabesques, Balkan swing, ballads, daring improvisations, melodies from the old Europe and Mediterranean lightness are condensed into fairytale sound fables. These tell of the vagabond life, the experiences and encounters on the great journey of life, the small coincidences and the great moments, delicacy and wild temperament, always driven between easterly and westerly winds, between consuming desire and enjoyable fulfillment - between the bitter and the sweet.


Quadro Nuevo has been touring the countries of the world since 1996, giving over 3000 concerts: Sydney, Montreal, Ottawa, Kuala Lumpur, Istanbul, New York, New Orleans, Mexico City, Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, Tunis, Tel Aviv. From contemplative Upper Bavaria over the Alps to Porto, from Denmark via the Balkans to Ukraine across Europe. Always on the road, the instrumental quartet has developed a very special language of sound poetry, apart from the usual genre-drawers. It is characterized by the passionate love for the instrument and the greatest joy of playing. The secret is dedication: Rarely has it been experienced that music is presented to foreign cultures with so much excitement, verve and empathy. The venues of the four musicians are as diverse as the roots of their music: Quadro Nuevo is not only a guest in concert halls and at festivals. The playful virtuosos also travel as street musicians through southern cities and demand dance as a nocturnal tango band, performing in jazz clubs and New York's Carnegie Hall. (Translated from German.)

Album: Impala Pt. 1
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:58
Size: 176.2 MB
Styles: Swing
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[3:10] 1. Luna Rossa
[2:09] 2. Nature Boy
[3:08] 3. Kommissar Maigret
[4:03] 4. Te Reto A Ser Mi Amante
[4:50] 5. Für Pauline
[4:10] 6. Our Spanish Love Song
[4:22] 7. Tango
[3:27] 8. Valse Lento
[1:57] 9. Valse Vivace
[3:11] 10. Bonsoir Juliette
[3:54] 11. Bei Dir War Es Immer So Schön
[3:58] 12. Il Sorriso D'amor
[4:04] 13. Flor De La Noche
[2:33] 14. El Paño Moruno
[1:54] 15. Susannata
[3:11] 16. Gracias A La Vida
[3:35] 17. Allez, Glissez !
[3:11] 18. Roma Nun Fà La Stupida Stasera
[3:55] 19. Tu Vuo' Fa' L'americano
[4:29] 20. La Luna Si Veste D'argento
[4:11] 21. Chitarra Romana
[3:26] 22. Serenata Celeste

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Album: Impala Pt. 2
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 100:11
Size: 229.4 MB
Styles: Swing
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[4:39] 1. Canzone Della Strada
[4:56] 2. Valzer Dottore
[3:46] 3. Tango Del Mare
[3:48] 4. Firenze Sogna
[4:26] 5. Arrivederci Roma
[4:47] 6. Tarantella
[4:23] 7. Per Il Mio Amore
[3:03] 8. Arriverderci
[4:41] 9. Miserlou
[4:08] 10. O Sarracino
[4:30] 11. El Choclo
[4:21] 12. Sultana
[5:15] 13. Mocca Swing
[5:45] 14. Giovanni Tranquillo
[4:06] 15. Penta
[4:48] 16. Quiereme
[5:58] 17. Bei Mir Bist Du Scheen
[4:44] 18. Jakob Elija
[5:29] 19. Tango Gosselin
[4:26] 20. Fiera Triste
[4:12] 21. Café Europa
[3:51] 22. El Sospiro Del Moro


Impala Part 1,Part 2

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Mulo Francel - Mocca Swing (2-Disc Set)

CD1: Mulo Francel Quartet Recordings: Mulo Francel / tenor saxophone, clarinet; David Gazarov / piano; Sven Faller / bass; Robert Kainar / drums. CD2: Orchestra Works: Mulo Francel & Münchner RundfunkorchesterEnrique Ungarte / conductor, accordion; Quadro Nuevo; Café del Mundo; Paulo Morello / guitar; Max Klaas / percussion; David Gazarov , Robert Kainar & Sven Faller. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Stefan Gienger at Mastermix Studio, Munich, Nov. 2016 & May 2017.

Many people who have never heard the name of Mulo Francel will nonetheless be aware of his playing, because the saxophonist is one of the founder members of Germany's most successful world music group Quadro Nuevo, which has been in existence since 1996. For Francel, this band provides the ideal means to channel any need he might have for travel, and also to give musical expression to his innate curiosity about other cultures. Quadro Nuevo brings him into contact with musicians, myths and melodies from all over the world, and these encounters happen “in the spirit of jazz”: freely, spontaneously and non-judgementally. That said, Francel’s musical roots are unquestionably in jazz. His legacy from a father who died too soon was a collection of jazz records, which became the door to a new world for the young Mulo.

Album: Mocca Swing (Disc 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:39
Size: 127.4 MB
Styles: Good time jazz
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[5:32] 1. Aphrodisia
[7:07] 2. Mocca Swing
[4:25] 3. Laqueur
[8:40] 4. Sunshine In A Honeypot
[5:00] 5. Pixinguinha
[7:22] 6. Atahualpa
[7:50] 7. Retrospective On A Broken Man
[9:40] 8. Polka Dots And Moonbeams

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Album: Mocca Swing (Disc 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:13
Size: 131.0 MB
Styles: Good time jazz
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[6:31] 1. Everything That Was
[6:39] 2. Mocca Swing (Orchestra Version)
[7:18] 3. Flying Carpet
[4:47] 4. Robert's Waltz
[5:35] 5. Die Abenteurer
[6:06] 6. Poet In Italia
[4:25] 7. Goethe Sulla Strada
[3:21] 8. Serenade For Young Lovers
[6:41] 9. Taquito Militar
[5:45] 10. Misty

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Quadro Nuevo & NDR Pops Orchestra - End of the Rainbow

Styles: Latin Jazz 
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 77:11
Size: 180,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:14)  1. Que reste-t-il de nos amours
(6:44)  2. Prinzessin Josefina
(7:36)  3. Canzone della Strada
(5:26)  4. Du gehst durch all meine Träume
(4:08)  5. La Cumparsita
(5:12)  6. Die Reise nach Batumi
(7:22)  7. Aventure
(5:01)  8. Miserlou
(6:16)  9. Ack Värmeland du sköna
(5:22) 10. Locanda Del Sole
(9:12) 11. Mohn
(4:19) 12. Tango del Mare
(6:12) 13. Oblivion

Though based in Germany, acoustic jazz quartet Quadro Nuevo devoted its creative energies to resurrecting the fading musical traditions of Europe as a whole, in particular embracing the tango. Guitarist Robert Wolf, reedist Mulo Francel, accordionist Andreas Hinterseher, and bassist D.D. Lowka co-founded Quadro Nuevo in Salzburg in 1996. Originally commissioned to write and produce film music for the Austrian broadcaster ORF, the four musicians immediately bonded over their eclectic musical backgrounds and shared affection for nostalgia, and in the decade to follow they played more than 1,500 live dates across the continent, forging an alchemical acoustic sound from elements of flamenco, Balkan swing, traditional folk, and avant-garde improvisation. Issuing their debut album, Luna Rossa, in 1998, Quadro Nuevo enjoyed their commercial breakthrough six years later with their fifth LP, Mocca Flor, which topped the German world music charts while rising to number three on the national jazz countdown. Tango Bitter Sweet followed in 2007. In 2008, the group released three albums: Cine Passion, a collection of movie themes, the holiday album Weihnacht and Antakya, a collection of folk and dance songs. 

They hit the road hard in the aftermath. That November a car hit their tour bus at high speed. Guitarist Robert Wolf was seriously injured and paralyzed from the neck down. He never played again and passed away in 2015 due to complications from his injuries. Harpist Evelyn Huber and pianist Chris Gall filled his spot. In 2009, Quadro Nuevo contributed to the album Italienische Reise, with lyrics by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Ulrich Tukur, Ulrike Kriener, and Frank T. Zumbach. In 2010 and 2011, they won The Echo, the German Phono Academy's highest distinction in the category Jazz/World Music, Best Live Act. Over the next several years, they played everywhere from Sidney, Australia to Montreal, Ottawa, from Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul, from New York to Mexico City, from Peking, Seoul, and Singapore, to Tunis, Tel Aviv, and the Baltics. They issued In Concert in 2012, and followed it with End of the Rainbow with the NDR Pops Orchestra and another holiday-themed collection, Bethlehem. In 2014, they issued the conceptual "audiobook" Lieben Sie Tango? with assistance from actors/narrators Dominic Raacke and Caroline Ebner. In 2014, they recorded Tango in Buenos Aries, and issued it the following year. In 2016, they collaborated with Münchner Symphoniker for Music for Christmas Nights, and in 2017, with the German-Egyptian collective Cairo Steps on Flying Carpet. ~ Jason Ankeny https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/end-of-the-rainbow/949466547

End of the Rainbow

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Quadro Nuevo - Tango

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:24
Size: 168.0 MB
Styles: Tango
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[4:11] 1. Por Una Cabeza
[6:47] 2. Garcias Tango
[1:38] 3. Canción De Ausencia
[5:08] 4. La Cumparsita
[3:03] 5. Buscándote
[5:26] 6. Buenos Aires Taxi Drive
[2:52] 7. Casa De Los Sueños
[4:55] 8. El Día Que Me Quieras
[4:58] 9. Taquito Militar
[6:38] 10. El Titiritero
[3:38] 11. Gallo Ciego
[6:46] 12. Vuelvo Al Sur
[5:33] 13. Fuga Y Misterio
[9:17] 14. Como La Vida Cambia
[2:27] 15. El Cielo

Mulo Francel: Saxophone, Klarinetten; D.D. Lowka: Kontrabass, Perkussion ; Andreas Hinterseher: Akkordeon, Vibrandoneon, Bandoneon; Evelyn Huber: Harfe, Salterio; Chris Gall: Piano.

Tango has always been part of our repertoire: like 16 years ago we created our own version of the tango classic Volver by Carlos Gardel. It was a nice arrangement with guitar, accordion and contrabass trying to imitate a tango orchestra, while a sax filled in Gardel’s vocals. But the result was not really Argentinean tango, it sounded European, with a touch of Flamenco, a little Italianitá and inspired by the jazz of the 60s that we all worshipped. Anyway, it sounded like us and not like Argentina.

On our website it said: “Quadro Nuevo is the European answer to the Argentinean tango!” But then we chose to really put ourselves to the test. This was in January 2014, midsummer in the Argentinean capital and 40 degrees in the shade. We moved into an old mansion in the Boedo district. Everyone had warned us that this metropolis, with its 13 million inhabitants, had its dangers. But we only met friendly, helpful and fascinating people; many of them! Our hotel El Cielo was situated in the buzzing Avenida Independencia, with a bakery just around the corner where we had breakfast every day. The building featured a small ballroom with high, stucco ceilings, a battered parquet floor and squeaking ventilators. There we practiced everyday in the searing midday heat. At night we swarmed out, plunging deep into the tango scene. We jammed with local musicians, played in the legendary tango club Los Laureles that opened its door 120 years ago, met famous tangueros and poets and waxed lyrical until dawn, drunk on full-bodied wine and tango, the lifeblood of Buenos Aires. It was there that we were infected with tango – for this album! Not every song originated in Buenos Aires. Some we had written before. Others came to life after our return, inspired by our experiences in Argentina. We also brought home some treasures, like Gallo Ciego, which the guitarists Felipe and Hugo played when they visited us in our ballroom. Not every note may be born in Buenos Aires but in every note you will find Buenos Aires – the city, the people, their stories, their passion.

Tango 

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