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Julien Lourau: Gambit

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Label: Warner Bros. Records
Released: 2000
Time:
 50:46
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Shalom
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.julienlourau.com
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Purchase date: 2001
Price in €: 16,99



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[1] Dark [Live montage] (J.Lourau/Shalom) - 1:48
[2] Lonely Night [Soft ADS Studio] (J.Lourau) - 6:55
[3] Candombe Intro [Live montage] (J.Lourau) - 1:29
[4] Conrod [Soft ADS Studio] (Mailk Mezzadri) - 8:41
[5] Candombe Transe [Live montage] (J.Lourau) - 1:01
[6] Voodoo House [Live at the New Morning] (J.Lourau) - 5:15
[7] Agua [Tuff Gong Studio] (J.Lourau) - 8:03
[8] Candombe Percussion [Live montage] (J.Lourau) - 0:52
[9] Marthe & La Jungle [Live at the New Morning] (Mailk Mezzadri) - 8:41
[10] Candombe [Live at the New Morning] (J.Lourau) - 7:58

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Julien Lourau - Saxophone

Malik Mezzadri - Flute, Voice
Maxime Zampieri - Drums
Sylvain Daniel - Bass on [2], [4], [6], [9], [10],
Papa Noel Ekwabi - Bass on [5], [7]
Minio Garay - Percussion on [4], [5], [7], [8]
Stéphanus Vivens - Keyboards on [2], [4], [5], [7]
Dondieu Divin - Keyboards on [6], [9], [10]
Shalom - DJ. Scartch, Producer
Jef Sharel - Programming on [6], [9], [10]

Philippe Avril - Engineer, Mixing
Shane Brown - Engineer
Ralph M'Fah Traoré - Engineer
Lionel Nicod - Mastering
Olivier Depons - Executive Producer
Khaterine Saurat - Executive Producer

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2000 CD Warner 8573834392
2005 CD Warner Music France 8573834392      

2000 Full Length from the Young French-born Saxophonist. Features 10 Original, Tribal and Dance-infused Tracks with Mixes by DJ Shalom. This Release Has Been Described as 'jazz for the New Millennium'.



Sophisticated, Incredible.

Envision a group of serious musicians putting together an album which fuses styles as disparate as jazz, grunge, and jungle with north African rhythms... Julien Lourau on sax is great, and the flautist uses this neat technique of singing while he plays, forming triads, or doubling the melody he's playing. DJ Shalom's mixes are actually pretty tastefully done; they never interfere, bringing some of the tracks (notably 6 & 10) to intense heights. The drummer is freaking amazing; instead of using sped-up samples, he actually plays jungle beats. And in track 10... well, imagine someone playing a djembe solo on a trap set! Above all, though, I'm impressed by the varieties of styles these folks are putting down. Check track #2, for instance, which moves from soft jazzy feel to polished grunge (I don't know how else to describe it) & back in the space of a few minutes, climaxing with Lourau's sax solo, again pointing us towards North Africa. The song fades away with soft, Billie Holiday-esque jazz vocals. What can I say, French music's getting better. If you're interested in world music, or just interested in music with a beat, without hesitation I'd recommend this album.

A music fan from Tuscaloosa, AL USA, January 27, 2001



Yet another brilliant Frenchman (is it something in the water?) taking the nu fusion to the outer limits… And what an exciting album. Funking up a North African groove by way of the spirit of Pharoah Sanders, super-saxist Lourau takes the music where super-saxists haven't dared before with such energy and a superior studio mix (the lyrical 'Agua' is to die for). But it's the live tracks that astound… such as his climactic 'Voodoo House' (recorded on tour last year… don't you wish you'd been there at the New Morning in Paris? I do).
 

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