Coffee Culture

Coffee Culture

ASIN: B0009RQRUQ

Track Listings

1. Hot Coco

2. Chai Chai

3. Cappachino

4. Vanilla Steamer

5. Cup of Joe

6. Mocha Latte

7. Macchiato

8. Frappe

9. Cafe' Au Lait

10. Caramel Latte

11. Expresso

12. Double Expresso

Editorial Reviews
Bill Binkelman, Wind and Wire
the best music I imagine I'll hear this year

Product Description
"Like a Frappuccino on Friday, Stephanie Sante's Coffee Culture is refreshing, urbane and smooth. Spin it next time you're caffeinating! -Sandy Shore/SmoothLounge.com" Gian Fiero Muse's Muse: "Then I listened to it in its entirety while driving to the MTV Movie Awards in LA, and I was both sucked in and blown away - at the same time." J-Sin, smother.net: "Each tune is catchy and riddled with inventive flavors of instrumental electronica. Unlike most ambient albums this won't put you to sleep; instead it'll live up to its title and give you a caffeine-like buzz." Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck JazzReview.com: "This is a fine collection of songs. All 12 tracks offer many variations of guitar playing, rhythms and electronica-enough spice and variety to keep the most finicky listener on their toes and interested." Amy Lotsberg, Collected Sounds: "What we do have is a nice, jazzy, new agey collection of tracks performed by the talented Stephanie Sante."

Coffee Culture

Tracks:

Hot Coco
Chai Chai
Cappachino
Vanilla Steamer
Cup of Joe
Mocha Latte
Macchiato
Frappe
Cafe' Au Lait
Caramel Latte
Expresso
Double Expresso

Product Description

Coffee Culture, Sante's fourth and finest album to date. It is a bold, extroverted, movement-inducing brew of world beats, guitar, and just a splash of electronic ambience that is bright, upbeat, cheerful, and trance-inducing. It is an exciting musical journey that leaves you feeling relaxed and rejuvenated from head to toe.

Customer Reviews:

Smoothjazz.com Review.......2005-12-16

I don't know about you, but when I'm in a coffee house, I am inspired. Sure, the caffeinated beverages contribute to the creativity spark, but it's more than that. Coffee + Tea houses have become America's piazza where great minds gather to re-hydrate and pontificate or to visit with friends or catch up on a novel or perhaps even write one. Guitarist/Composer Stephanie Sante captures this evocative and ever so subtle electronica side of Lattes and Espressos in her new recording COFFEE CULTURE offering a full bodied brew of world beats, guitar rhythms, and a dash of electronic ambience. On this, her fourth album to date, all of the songs are coffee-themed, from "Cappachino" to "Macchiato," Sante captures the listener with deep, percolating grooves and textures throughout COFFEE CULTURE. "The new disc is a return to form for me," says Sante, who was tutored in classical and flamenco guitar. "Instrumentally, the common thread on Coffee Culture is the world beats and the guitar playing." For you non-coffee drinkers, Ms. Sante has whipped up the sultry, "Vanilla Steamer" and the exotic "Chai Chai" as well as the album's opening track, "Hot Cocoa." The artist's musical influences include Miles Davis, Pat Metheny, Kenny Burrel, Bill Frisell, Carlos Antonio Jobim as well as Andy Summers, Sade and St. Germain to name but a handful. Like a Frappuccino on Friday, Stephanie Sante's COFFEE CULTURE is refreshing, urbane and smooth. Spin it next time you're caffeinating. ~SANDY SHORE

What a great album! (Kudos to Stephanie.).......2005-08-15

Those of you who know Stephanie's music will understand that this new album is a very different direction for her. Those who don't, well, don't be put off by the track titles...while they're either catchy and/or playful, underneath them lies a universe of sounds and rhythms that get the heart beating!

This new album has a fiery heart of jazz, mixed with many other elements that makes this album hard to classify. Smooth jazz turns into almost-world-beat to hard-core and then to laid back sounds and patterns that take the mind (and heart) for quite a journey. Every track is well worth a listen!

(Until Amazon.com has arranged to carry samples of this album's tracks, you can find them here..just copy and paste into your browser window: (...)

In my opinion, this album is not only one of her best but a tremendous stepping stone to a whole new journey in her career.

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