Depart - Refire

Size: 126,9 MB
Time: 54:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Jazz Instrument
Art: Front

01. Talking 58 (4:08)
02. Chambers' Room (4:22)
03. Choral (4:52)
04. Barrock (5:33)
05. Funky Straight (4:31)
06. Bass Folk Song (2:31)
07. Erzherzog-Johann-Jodler (6:11)
08. Happy Happy (4:42)
09. Peace On My Mind (3:24)
10. Juggle In (2:29)
11. Guggisberglied (4:47)
12. Seven In Heaven (4:58)
13. Alpine Mood (2:17)

Personnel:
Harry Sokal - Tenor & Soprano Sax, Effects
Heiri Kanzig - Bass
Martin Valihora - Drums

The new album by the trio DEPART contains highly explosive, groove based music. Three very talented musicians form the new line-up: saxophonist Harry Sokal from Vienna, bass player Heiri Känzig from Zurich and the young drummer Martin Valihora from Slovakia who commutes between Bratislava and New York. Together they break new ground. This is DEPART's step into a new era.

DEPART is a crucial part of the European innovation in jazz. After 30 years of existence the band now releases their album REFIRE on Intakt Records. Sokal says: "But above all our music has become unpredictable and surprising again. Within a precisely delineated framework we have all three become more capricious; that ensures the tension and spontaneity which keeps our music alive."

Recorded in the 'Hard Studios' in the city of Winterthur, Switzerland the album contains 13 pieces most of them composed by Heiri Känzig. The music boils, pulsates and grooves in rousing perfection. "Their way of providing entertainment involves musical sophistication, intelligence and craft, along with good taste, witty playing and inventiveness," writes jazz critic Christian Rentsch in the liner notes.

Refire

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Peter Lipa - Beatles In Blue(S)

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 73:18
Size: 170.1 MB
Styles: Blues-jazz vocals
Year: 2003
Art: Front

[ 4:40] 1. Day Tripper
[ 3:52] 2. Norwegian Wood
[ 4:48] 3. And I Love Her
[ 3:07] 4. Every Little Thing
[ 3:20] 5. Misery
[ 4:17] 6. Got To Get You Into My Life
[ 5:07] 7. Do You Want To Know A Secret
[ 5:13] 8. I Wanna Be Your Man
[ 4:40] 9. The Fool On The Hill
[ 3:00] 10. I've Just Seen A Face
[ 4:26] 11. All I've Got To Do
[ 4:46] 12. I Saw Her Standing There
[ 3:53] 13. P.S. I Love You
[ 3:33] 14. No Reply
[ 2:54] 15. All My Loving
[11:35] 16. With A Little Help From My Friends/Day Tripper [hidden Alternate Take]

The Slovak blues singer Peter Lipa delivers very personal interpretations of 16 songs by the Beatles on this album. Taking a cue from Joe Cocker's famous cover version of "With a Little Help from My Friends," the man and his team of arrangers and musicians set off to create the most far-out renditions they could imagine. On that count they surely succeeded -- if you don't pay attention, some songs will just fly by without you recognizing them. In some cases, as in "Every Little Thing" and "I Wanna Be Your Man," the only trace left of the original is the lyrics -- everything else is new, from the tempo and rhythm (ranging from blues-rock and jazz-funk to jazz ballads) up to chord changes and melodies. And that's where danger points its head. Lennon and McCartney's talent as melodists is immeasurable. Is Lipa better?. That's why, once the novelty factor wears off after a few listens, we're left with weaker songs. But that doesn't mean Beatles in Blue(s) isn't worth your time. If anything else, Lipa's song selection has the merit to jump over the obvious greatest hits of the group and choose instead more obscure songs, perhaps some the singer feels a deeper connection to. And the man does have a seductive voice, free of any accent, gravelly yet flexible and gracious. Highlights include the horn-punched "Day Tripper," "All My Loving" (given a Stéphane Grappelli feel) and "I've Just Seen a Face." ~ François Couture

Live Recording Recorded in 2002.

Peter Lipa (keyboards); Jana Kirschner (vocals); rado tariska (saxophone); Martin gaspar (bass); Robo Rist (drums).

Beatles In Blue(S)

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