May 03

Roland Van Campenhout - Never Enough 2008

Artist: Roland Van Campenhout
Title Of Album: Never Enough
Year Of Release: 2008
Label: EMI Music Belgium
Genre: Blues - Singer-Songwriter & Folk
Quality: MP3 / Joint Stereo
Bitrate: VBR kbit/s / 44.1 Khz
Total Time: 39:55 min
Total Size: 50.50 MB
WebSite: www.rolandvancampenhout.be

Ever since the 70s Roland ( VAN CAMPENHOUT )is known to be one of the best blues performers in Belgium - be it solo, with just an acoustic guitar and a mouth harp, or with some friends, just having a ball …

Of course, Roland is more than just the blues. On his LPs and CDs he experiments with oriental and african sounds and samples (listen to his 1990 album The Last Tribe or The Great Atomic Power published in 2005). On Snowblind you’ll find a lot of instrumental tracks, setting a lot of different moods … You wonder how come the weird music on Little Sweet Taste still sounds like the blues …

Waltz, Last Letter Home and especially Lime & Coconut produced by Arno, are just magnificent, with a lot of covers from the likes of Tony Joe White, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, … but they’re more than just cover-albums … Roland understands the songs, feels what he’s singing, whether it’s a touching folk song or plain old blues. His new album, Never Enough (2008), produced by Tom Van Laere aka Admiral Freebee, is his most personal, and acclaimed as his best ever.

Roland and other musicians like Wigbert, Pieter-Jan de Smet or Neeka share their talents on several occasions … you’ll find Roland playing organ with Raymond van het Groenewoud or André Brasseur or see him in the studio with Derroll Adams, Alain Bashung, Vaya Con Dios, Arno, … Roland is everywhere in the Belgian music scene - and that’s just the way it should be! He’s unpredictable, yet always at his best, and quite a nice guy too, Tim Hardin or Rory Gallagher who shared quite a time with him could have told you … or just ask any bartender in Belgium (and beyond)!

TRACKLIST
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1 Hissing O’the Heath 3:07
2 Midnight Star 2:41
3 Never Enough 2:34
4 Male Prostitute 4:54
5 In My Time 2:50
6 Officer, Kiss Me Please 2:37
7 It All Has To Do With It 8:15
8 Fire In The Morning 3:01
9 Never Too Soon 3:48
10 Almost Home 6:08

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May 03

Nik Bartsch's Ronin - Holon 2008

Artist: Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin
Title Of Album: Holon
Year Of Release: February 5, 2008
Label: Ecm Records
Genre: Jazz, Zen Funk, Modern Jazz
Quality: MP3 / Joint Stereo
Bitrate: VBR kbit/s / 44.1 Khz
Total Time: 55:39 min
Total Size: 75,4 mb
WebSite: www.nikbaertsch.com

Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch writes, rather defensively, that “an ecstatic groove and an ascetic awareness … are not mutually exclusive”. Perhaps he feels the chilly breath of ECM’s free-improv giants on the nape of his neck. The music made by his quintet, Ronin, draws on jazz in its harmonic and timbral density, but at its core is an insistent pulse, with a sound somewhere between Steve Reich and EST. The 15-minute Modul 41_17 demonstrates this well, with repeated piano figures that drill deep into your consciousness. Modul 45 has a jerky catchiness that harks back to Monk. There is nothing earth-shatteringly new here - Man Jumping explored this terrain years ago, while the Portico Quartet are the latest to pick up the gauntlet - but Bärtsch and his crew, including Sha on bass clarinet and alto, play this confection with such elan that it’s hard not to be seduced.

TRACKLIST
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01. Modul 42 06:28
02. Modul 41_17 14:51
03. Modul 39_8 08:00
04. Modul 46 07:16
05. Modul 45 09:41
06. Modul 44 09:23

Personnel: Nik Bartsch: piano; Sha: bass clarinets, alto saxophone; Bjorn Meyer: bass; Kaspar Rast: drums; Andi Pupato: percussion.

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May 03

Ron Blake - Shayari 2008

Artist: Ron Blake
Title Of Album: Shayari
Year Of Release: January 29, 2008
Label: Mack Avenue
Genre: Saxophone, Jazz, Modern Jazz, Nu-Jazz
Quality: MP3 / Joint Stereo
Bitrate: VBR kbit/s / 44.1 Khz
Total Time: 69:15 min
Total Size: 87,1 mb
WebSite: www.ronblakemusic.com

“Shayari” is essentially a two hander from Ron Blake (saxophone) and Michael Cain (piano/ producer) with star support from Christian McBride (bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums), Regina Carter (violin) and Gilmar Gomes (perscussion) added sparingly and just where required. The overall feel is somewhat similar to the ‘less is more’ approach of Marty Ehrlich and Myra Melford’s recent album “Spark!” and has the same virtue of leaving space for the imagination to work on its evocative themes. Only here all but one track is a different trio chosen as Ron Blake and Michael Cain plus one of the above musicians.

The title refers to a Hindi or Urdu short form of poetry not dissimilar from the better known Japanese Haiku. The attempt of such poetry to convey universal understanding within an extreme simplicity is a very apt metaphor for the approach taken in this music.

The trio with Christian McBride “What Is Your Prayer For?” is a clear winner for out and out beauty while the trio with Jack DeJohnette “Hanuman” wins the day for drive and intensity. Regina Carter’s feature on violin (’”Of Kindred Souls”) features fine almost dissonant harmonies with saxophone before settling into a satisfyingly bluesy groove. Some of the most memorable tracks (”Waltz For Gwen”, “Come Sun” and “The Island”) feature percussionist Gilmar Gomes as the third musician and this seems to be particularly in keeping with the shayari theme. “Remember The Rain” is a short Coltrane–like sax/piano duet.

The album is memorable, very cool and likely to put Ron Blake and Michael Cain fully on the map as a major creative jazz partnership.

TRACKLIST
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1. Walts For Gwen [ 5:39]
2. Atonement [ 8:41]
3. Come Sun [ 6:03]
4. Hanuman [ 5:54]
5. What Is Your Prayer For? [ 4:30]
6. Of Kindred Souls [ 6:45]
7. Please Be Kind [ 6:04]
8. 76 [ 7:15]
9. Remember The Rain [ 2:00]
10.The Island [ 7:23]
11.Teddy [ 4:52]
12.Abhaari (Pt. 1) [ 1:01]
13.Abhaari (Pt. 2) [ 3:08]

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