Alfredo Rodríguez is a figurehead of the new generation of Cuban jazz musicians who observe and honor their roots while constantly seeking new avenues for expression. The 32-year-old pianist’s new album, The Little Dream, evokes Keith Jarrett, Jaco Pastorious and Pat Metheny in equal parts, but the rhythms of Cuba, those guïro grooves can get anybody reeling and rocking, are etched into the music’s bones.
Rodríguez, bassist/guitarist Munir Hossn and drummer Michael Olivera flesh out ethereal, almost pastoral soundscapes, lending a delicate, child-like wonder to the album’s heaviest compositions. In “Bloom,” the melodies spread and grow, as if they were mirroring the growth and blossom of some magnificent, delicate flower.
“Tree of Stars” shrinks the vastness of a starry night into a piquant, delicately pointed rendering of each star’s twinkle. “World of Colors,” an almost solo feature for Rodríguez, captures ecstatic joy and melancholy in the span of 120 seconds.
For every tone poem, Rodríguez reinterprets the sounds of his homeland in spry, whirling dances. The rhythms that animate Santería rituals, the mambos that spring forth new romances on the daily, these are what animate the delicate dance of piano, guitar, and drum kit on the celebratory “Alegria,” the hymnal “Vamos Todos A Cantor,” and industrially inclined “Silver Rain.”
The Little Dream‘s title track serves as the album’s manifesto. Vibrant passages of harmonic development, heralded by a Yoruba choir, give way to unified tangos up and down the fret and keyboard. With each melodic pirouette, the music takes on more and more the shape of a ballerina, dancing delicately en pointe.
| Artist: | Tatiana |
| Title of Album: | Defauts |
| Genre: | Ethnic |
| Year of Release: | 2018 |
| Tracks: | 1 |
| Total Time: | 3 minutes and 27 seconds |
| Format: | MP3 |
| Bitrate: | 320 Kbps |
| Total Size: | 7.98 MB |
| # | Song Title | Artist | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Defauts | Tatiana | 3:27 |
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Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes have built their reputation on storytelling. Over the past eight years they have released four records, toured Europe and the USA multiple times, shared stages with Americana and country heavyweights and picked up a string of awards, including the Golden Guitar for ‘alt country album of the year’ with their landmark release Black Coffee.
But they’ve never told stories like the ones on new record ‘Some Girls (Quite) Like Country Music’. By far the band’s most ‘adult’ work, ‘Some Girls’ is a country record, but draws as heavily upon the influence of Leonard Cohen and Billy Bragg as it does Willie Nelson and Townes Van Zandt.
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This new album is John Mayall’s sixty-eighth and that doesn’t include re-issues.This album features Mayall in a trio format. Mayall explains “it came about accidentally when my guitarist wasn’t able to make a festival gig due to airline cancellations. Since then, I found that the interplay and dynamics have created a more personal upfront sound”. Performing as a trio for more than a year vocalist Mayall switches between harmonica and keyboards. The rhythm section is still Greg Rzab, bass; and Jay Davenport, drums. The album was recorded live in Germany in March, 2017.
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Second album Sailor was produced by Glyn Johns at Wally Heider s Studio in Los Angeles, and released in October 1968. But this was the end of the five-man line-up, as Boz Scaggs and Jim Peterman left soon after. The album includes the classic opening instrumental Song For Our Ancestors , perennial concert favourite Living In The U.S.A. and three Boz Scaggs songs.
Personnel:
Steve Miller – guitar, lead vocals (1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8), harmonica
Boz Scaggs – guitar, backing and lead (9, 10) vocals
Lonnie Turner – bass, backing vocals
Jim Peterman – keyboards, backing and lead (6) vocals
Tim Davis – drums, backing and lead (3) vocals
