Al-jiçç - Chants (2021)
BAND/ARTIST: Al-jiçç
- Title: Chants
- Year Of Release: 2021
- Label: Self-Released
- Genre: World, Jazz, Fusion
- Quality: FLAC (track)
- Total Time: 32:53
- Total Size: 189 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
A Portuguese band playing Middle Eastern music while paying homage to American jazz: with a premise like this, it’s either going to be a complete mess or something quite unique and interesting. Luckily, this fifth album from the Lisbon-based quartet is very much the latter.
Comprising six instrumental tracks that, with a respectful nod to classical Arabic, Gypsy and Jewish music here, and a courteous bow to Miles Davis’ electric phase there, deliver a pleasingly eclectic listening experience that is as hard to categorise as the band’s name is to pronounce. Starting out as broad North African and Mediterranean-inspired themes composed on electric piano by Nuno Damião, one of the group’s founding members who trained as a classical guitarist before turning to jazz, the tunes serve as a harmonic base for improvisations that meld elements of post-bop and modal jazz with ambient electronica (as on ‘Lost Signal’) and even a bit of dub (as on ‘Zadar’). Traditional Sephardic influences are in evidence on ‘Arah’ while the album’s cinematic sounding title-track is evocative of a shisha-smoke filled nightclub in Cairo. At just over half an hour of such enjoyably fascinating material, we can only hope their next album is a little longer.
1.01 - Al-jiçç - Daf song (4:32)
1.02 - Al-jiçç - Zadar (4:27)
1.03 - Al-jiçç - Route (7:51)
1.04 - Al-jiçç - Arah (5:49)
1.05 - Al-jiçç - Chants (5:14)
1.06 - Al-jiçç - Lost Signal (5:01)
Comprising six instrumental tracks that, with a respectful nod to classical Arabic, Gypsy and Jewish music here, and a courteous bow to Miles Davis’ electric phase there, deliver a pleasingly eclectic listening experience that is as hard to categorise as the band’s name is to pronounce. Starting out as broad North African and Mediterranean-inspired themes composed on electric piano by Nuno Damião, one of the group’s founding members who trained as a classical guitarist before turning to jazz, the tunes serve as a harmonic base for improvisations that meld elements of post-bop and modal jazz with ambient electronica (as on ‘Lost Signal’) and even a bit of dub (as on ‘Zadar’). Traditional Sephardic influences are in evidence on ‘Arah’ while the album’s cinematic sounding title-track is evocative of a shisha-smoke filled nightclub in Cairo. At just over half an hour of such enjoyably fascinating material, we can only hope their next album is a little longer.
1.01 - Al-jiçç - Daf song (4:32)
1.02 - Al-jiçç - Zadar (4:27)
1.03 - Al-jiçç - Route (7:51)
1.04 - Al-jiçç - Arah (5:49)
1.05 - Al-jiçç - Chants (5:14)
1.06 - Al-jiçç - Lost Signal (5:01)
Year 2021 | Jazz | World | FLAC / APE
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