Charles Pasi - Zebra (2020/2021) [Hi-Res]

Charles Pasi's new Zebra album is a musical UFO, a nugget. Listen to Happy Single or Warm Embrace or the sublime ballad Silence and we immediately think of the mythical albums Nightfly by Donald Fagen or Aja by Steely Dan. Blues, soul, pop, right off the bat, we don't know, we don't know anymore and we understand that labels don't matter here. Charles Pasi is not making a record, no, he is just continuing to write his diary. A poetry with a fragile balance, which tells of a world that is both beautiful and frightening, immense and tiny, past and future, adorable and to be burnt.
Charles Pasi's music resembles him. It is both acoustic and electric, telluric and dynamic, colorful and dark. Generous and fragile. It mixes feelings and grooves.

Zebra is Charles Pasi’s second album for Blue Note. It was composed over the course of two years while touring Bricks, his previous album. He’s performed around a hundred dates all over the world: in China, Tunisia, the Netherlands, Turkey, La Réunion, Mauritius… it has to be said that Charles Pasi has flouted borders and boundaries from the very start.