Jean-Luc Thomas - Oficina itinerante (2020)
BAND/ARTIST: Jean-Luc Thomas
- Title: Oficina itinerante
- Year Of Release: 2020
- Label: Hirustica
- Genre: World
- Quality: MP3 320 kbps; FLAC lossless
- Total Time: 1:00:00
- Total Size: 139; 350 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Monsieur Thomas is a Breton flautist (and horse whisperer!) who describes himself as a musician and traveller. He travels the world, a little like Manu Chao perhaps, in search of a good collaboration. He’s done it in Africa, he’s done it in India, and he’s done it in Brazil. World Music Central named his Magic Flutes hook-up with Ravichandra Kulur as one of its best world music albums of 2017, so the peripatetic minstrel has gravitas and previous. On his latest disc, he works with members of his working sextet, Kerlaveo, and features two fine Brazilian musicians he has also worked with previously: percussionist Bernardo Aguiar and saxophonist Carlos Malta, who also contributes the beautiful bass clarinet and two indigenous wooden flutes, the pifano and kuluta.
Among the instrumental influences he cites are Roland Kirk, Eric Dolphy, Hermeto Pascoal and Egberto Gismonti, but it was seeing the Chieftains in concert that really inspired his love of the flute. Knowing this helps to explain the rich cross-cultural melange of styles on the album. The opening “Sete Santos”, for example, mixes a hint of choro, a dash of north-eastern forró, and – particularly when Carlos Malta solos on soprano sax – a sprinkling of jazz. The following “Toni Braga”, however, is much more Breton and Celtic-flavoured. On “Laranjeiras Serafim”, the Breton and Brazilian traditions blend in an infectious dance that features the harmonica of Vitor Lopes, one of the album’s most characteristic instrumental voices. A flurry of free jazz ushers in “Frevo de Meia Lua”, a track like others here that shows the pronounced influence of Hermeto Pascoal. It’s followed by “Les Cloches”, which smacks of Naná Vasconcelos in Tibet. Brief spoken-word interludes help to bridge all this diversity and contribute to a richly atmospheric entity that’s imaginative, questing, experimental and faultlessly performed. At almost an hour in length, it doesn’t always work as cohesively as it might, but when it does, it’s very good indeed.
Tracklist:
01. Jean-Luc Thomas - Sete Santos (4:15)
02. Jean-Luc Thomas - Toni Braga (6:07)
03. Jean-Luc Thomas - Frevo de Meia Lua (2:50)
04. Jean-Luc Thomas - Les cloches d'Anselmo Alves (2:43)
05. Jean-Luc Thomas - Pifano Carioca (5:02)
06. Jean-Luc Thomas - Entre Nós o Mar (1:26)
07. Jean-Luc Thomas - Madhu (8:30)
08. Jean-Luc Thomas - Laranjeiras-Serafim (4:40)
09. Jean-Luc Thomas - Chego em Fim o Mar (1:35)
10. Jean-Luc Thomas - Recife (3:30)
11. Jean-Luc Thomas - Maracatu Pr. (6:39)
12. Jean-Luc Thomas - Vento Sem Porto (0:43)
13. Jean-Luc Thomas - Samba de l'hirondelle (2:16)
14. Jean-Luc Thomas - Ar vestrez klanv (9:44)
Among the instrumental influences he cites are Roland Kirk, Eric Dolphy, Hermeto Pascoal and Egberto Gismonti, but it was seeing the Chieftains in concert that really inspired his love of the flute. Knowing this helps to explain the rich cross-cultural melange of styles on the album. The opening “Sete Santos”, for example, mixes a hint of choro, a dash of north-eastern forró, and – particularly when Carlos Malta solos on soprano sax – a sprinkling of jazz. The following “Toni Braga”, however, is much more Breton and Celtic-flavoured. On “Laranjeiras Serafim”, the Breton and Brazilian traditions blend in an infectious dance that features the harmonica of Vitor Lopes, one of the album’s most characteristic instrumental voices. A flurry of free jazz ushers in “Frevo de Meia Lua”, a track like others here that shows the pronounced influence of Hermeto Pascoal. It’s followed by “Les Cloches”, which smacks of Naná Vasconcelos in Tibet. Brief spoken-word interludes help to bridge all this diversity and contribute to a richly atmospheric entity that’s imaginative, questing, experimental and faultlessly performed. At almost an hour in length, it doesn’t always work as cohesively as it might, but when it does, it’s very good indeed.
Tracklist:
01. Jean-Luc Thomas - Sete Santos (4:15)
02. Jean-Luc Thomas - Toni Braga (6:07)
03. Jean-Luc Thomas - Frevo de Meia Lua (2:50)
04. Jean-Luc Thomas - Les cloches d'Anselmo Alves (2:43)
05. Jean-Luc Thomas - Pifano Carioca (5:02)
06. Jean-Luc Thomas - Entre Nós o Mar (1:26)
07. Jean-Luc Thomas - Madhu (8:30)
08. Jean-Luc Thomas - Laranjeiras-Serafim (4:40)
09. Jean-Luc Thomas - Chego em Fim o Mar (1:35)
10. Jean-Luc Thomas - Recife (3:30)
11. Jean-Luc Thomas - Maracatu Pr. (6:39)
12. Jean-Luc Thomas - Vento Sem Porto (0:43)
13. Jean-Luc Thomas - Samba de l'hirondelle (2:16)
14. Jean-Luc Thomas - Ar vestrez klanv (9:44)
Year 2020 | World | FLAC / APE | Mp3
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