Andy Narell - The Passage (2004) {Heads Up}

Posted By: tiburon
Date: Dec. 11, 2018

Andy Narell - The Passage (2004) {Heads Up}
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MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 137MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, Fusion

Anyone who thinks the steel drums are limited to calypso and other native West Indian styles has obviously never heard Andy Narell or his collaborators on this disc, the French band Calypsociation. Narell's compositions take the music headlong into jazz, and the richness of the steel pan sound ripples and sways throughout. For added flavor and texture, guests Michael Brecker, Paquito D'Rivera, and Hugh Masekela bring their horns, but they're the icing on a swinging cake (full praise to the percussionists who make the whole ensemble swing). The music is deliciously complex without ever sounding it. It works just as well on slower pieces like "Song for Mia," where the drums create a latticework of melody that remains gorgeously balanced. Granted, at times it veers perilously close to smooth jazz, but then it always steers faultlessly as far as melody is concerned. The extended pieces, like the title cut and "Coffee Street," sail through moods, and "Dee Mwa Wee" offers slightly darker hues in its lovely minor key, with Masekela's flügelhorn bubbling gently over the top. You have to hand it to Narell; his imagination and skill have made the steel pans into a mainstream instrument.
Track List
01. The Passage 10:15
02. Song For Mia 8:06
03. The Long Way Back 5:59
04. Sea Of Stories 9:18
05. Mabouya 6:39
06. Dee Mwa Wee 7:19
07. Coffee Street 11:12

musicians
Andy Narell - tenor, double second, and quaduet steel pans
Mathieu Borgne - drums, percussion
Laurent Lalsingué - tenor, double second
Michael Brecker – tenor sax ("Song for Mia")
Paquito D'Rivera – alto sax ("Mabouya")
Hugh Masekela – flugelhorn ("Dee Mwa Wee")

Other instrumentalists
tenor: Olivier Wiren, Clement Bazin, Stéphanie N'Doye-Chevret, Sonia Descamps
double tenor: Gwendel Wiren
double second: Laurence Guerrini, Traci-Leigh Scarlett, Melodie Hammel, Etienne Huguenot, Delphine Denis, Marie Pelletier, Alice Courbrant
triple guitar: Julie Goldstein, Magda Belaïd
double guitar: Coline Hammel, Thomas Calavera
4 cello: Patrick Thine, Frédéric Deshuis, Agathe Delaporte, Donald Gellez
tenor bass: Olivier Thomas, Jocelyne Baillon
bass: José Babeu, Philippe Goldstein, Isabel Encinias, Nathalie Clérault, Smaïl-Smao Mekki, Bruno François
percussion: Laurent Coatalen, Pernell Saturnino, Philippe Malique

Produced by Andy Narell


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