Label: Naim
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 797537103228
EAN: 0797537103228
ASIN: B000025574
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Artist:
Antonio Forcione
Label: Naim Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 797537103228 EAN: 0797537103228 ASIN: B000025574 Release Date: 1998-01-01 |
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Stunning.......2004-05-26
But you know what? There's not really anything like it out there (except even more hard-to-find Foricione discs).
Since Forcione's a southern European, one might think flamenco or perhaps Gypsy.
Nope.
He's from Italy, and he's fashioned his own peculiar kind of world-jazz. Yes, it partakes of a wide range of Mediterranean influences, including flamenco, tango, Arabian, and Gypsy; but it really represents a style all his own, forged, one supposes, out of long hours of woodshedding.
In any case, he's created a very attractive nuevo accoustic jazz/world vibe. Basically a trio, featuring leader Forcione on various acoustic guitars, Trilok Gurtu or Bosco de Oliveira on drums and percussion, and Kai Eckhardt de Camargo on Jaco-sounding e-bass, the disc is augmented by a wide range of guests playing everything from alto or soprano sax, to synth, vibratone(?), voice, synth horn, and tablas.
The aural palette takes on a very attractive and at times absolutely mesmerizing signature, my favorite cut being "Indian Cafe," with its exotic sensibility and sub-continent vibe. But there's really not a weak cut anywhere. Other favorites include "Horserun," a driving, galloping number featuring some of Forcione's finest playing; "Alhambra," with that haunting Southern Spain sensibility and the mysterioso vocals of Sonal Varsoni; "Night Passage," with its Mid-East feel, glorious oud-like guitar, and the mesmeric saz-like sax of Roberto Manzin.
I'm always on the lookout for gorgeous world-jazz, and this certainly strikes all the right chords.
Not to be missed by anyone even slightly taken by glorious jazz-beat music.
Music CD:
Music CD
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