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Joe Zawinul: Di-a-lects

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Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1986
Time:
 42:41
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Joe Zawinul
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.zawinulmusic.com
Appears with: Weather Report
Purchase date: 2002.11.14
Price in €: 9,99



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[1] The Harvest (J.Zawinul) - 6:04
[2] Waiting for the Rain (J.Zawinul) - 7:36
[3] Zeebob (J.Zawinul) - 4:52
[4] The Great Empire (J.Zawinul) - 3:56
[5] Carnavalito (J.Zawinul) - 6:19
[6] 6 A.M. /Walking on the Nile (J.Zawinul) - 7:07
[7] Peace (J.Zawinul) - 6:47

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JOE ZAWINUL - Synthesizer, Composer, Vocals, Multi Instruments, Cover Art Concept, Producer

BOBBY MCFERRIN - Vocals, Improvisation
CARL ANDERSON - Vocals, Ensemble
DEE DEE BELLSON - Voices, Ensemble
ALFIE SILAS - Voices

BOB BELDEN - Reissue Producer
Dr. GEORGE BUTLER - Executive Producer
STEVEN BERKOWITZ - A&R
PETER KELSEY - Engineer
PETER R. KELSEY - Engineer
PAUL ERICKSON - Engineer
MARK WILDER - Mastering
SETH FOSTER - Mastering
HOWARD FRITZSON - Art Direction
RICHIE POWELL - Art Direction
RANDALL MARTIN - Design
NORMAN SEEFF - Photography
DAVID GAHR - Photography
SAM EMERSON - Photography
SETH ROTHSTEIN - Project Director
DARREN SALMIERI - A&R
BILL MILKOWSKI - Liner Notes

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1997 CD Columbia 65454
1997 CD Columbia CK-40081
2001 CD Sony International 489774
2002 CD Sony 86296


If Joe Zawinul was out to prove that he didn't need Weather Report anymore, he succeeded spectacularly in this virtual one-man show. Zawinul recorded many of the vocals (assisted now and then by Bobby McFerrin and a vocal trio) and all of the synthesizer and rhythm machine tracks himself in his Pasadena home studio, yet the results are anything but mechanical. Zawinul in fact achieves a rare thing: He manages to get his stacks of electronics to swing like mad in these pan-global grooves that pick up where WR was about to leave off. "Waiting for the Rain" generates a ribbon of tension and anticipation, while "Zeebop" is a noisy rush of pure adrenaline. And "Carnivalito" is a total gas, a percolating, outrageously joyous evocation of a carnival that would put the world's best percussion players out of business if Zawinul's swinging talent could be bottled and sold. This is an important, overlooked album because it proves that electronic instruments can reach your emotions and shake your body when played by someone who has bothered to learn how to master them.

Richard S. Ginell - All Music Guide
© 1992 - 2002 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



Joe Zawinul's 1986 Dialects, the keyboard legend's first solo album after 15 years with Weather Report, is worth revisiting. Featuring essentially only Zawinul on a virtual army of synthesizers (with some occasional contributions from Bobby McFerrin and a three-part vocal choir), Dialects is at once an apt summation of the veteran Austrian keyboardist's career-long affinity for synthesizers and an interesting portent of the world-music direction he would take. Although some of the drum-machine grooves here sound a bit dated now, Dialects is heady stuff, right from CD opener "The Harvest," a journey into 1980s techno-funk oriented more toward sonic effect than lyrical content. Other tracks like "Waiting for the Rain" and "6 A.M./Walking on the Nile" more explicitly evoke the world-music sounds Zawinul was to explore with his own Zawinul Syndicate soon after he recorded this album. On these tracks Zawinul mimics a variety of Brazilian and African indigenous instruments with his synths. Although in some ways Dialects resembles the music Herbie Hancock was making in the 1980's - in particular Hancock's 1984 foray into world music/techno funk, Sound System - it's unmistakably the work of its creator, filled with the kind of soulful synthesizer work Zawinul had been creating with Weather Report since the early 1970s.

Ezra Gale - Amazon.com



Joe Zawinuls Album Dialects, das 1986 erschien, war das erste Soloalbum dieser Keyboard-Legende nach fünfzehn Jahren bei Weather Report - und es lohnt sich in der Tat noch einmal hereinzuhören. Hier wird nur Zawinul mit einem Heer von Synthesizern präsentiert und gelegentlich einige Beiträge von Bobby McFerrin mit improvisiertem Gesang für dreistimmigen Chor. Dialects ist gleichermaßen ein angemessenes Resümee der lebenslangen Vorliebe des österreichischen Keyboard-Veteranen für Synthesizer und ein interessanter Wegweiser, der in Richtung Weltmusik deutet, in die seine Muse ihn schon bald lenken sollte. Einige seiner Grooves mit maschinellem Schlagzeug erscheinen heute ein wenig überholt, aber dennoch erzeugt Dialects eine überwältigende Wirkung; angefangen von dem Eröffnungsstück "The Harvest" bis zu einer Reise in den Techno-Funk der 80er-Jahre, die gekrönt wird von Zawinuls bunter Ansammlung von Synthesizern sowie von McFerrin und den faszinierenden Gesängen des Chores, die mehr auf Klangeffekte ausgerichtet sind als auf die Bedeutung der Texte. Andere Tracks wie "Waiting For the Rain" und "6 A.M./Walking On the Nile" sind deutlicher von den Weltmusik-Klängen geprägt, die Zawinul mit seinem eigenen Zawinul Syndicate schon bald nach der Aufnahme dieses Albums erkunden sollte, wobei Zawinul eine Vielfalt von brasilianischen und afrikanischen Instrumenten mit seinen Synthesizern imitiert. Wenn auch Dialects in mancherlei Hinsicht der Musik ähnelt, die Herbie Hancock in den 80er-Jahren machte -- insbesondere Hancocks Ausflug mit Sound System (1984) in die Weltmusik und in das Reich des Techno-Funk - bleibt es unbestritten das Werk seines Schöpfers: voll von der gefühlvollen Synthesizer-Musik, die Zawinul bei Weather Report schon seit den frühen 70er-Jahren machte.

Ezra Gale - Amazon.de
 

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