(Post-Bop, World Fusion, Contemporary Jazz) Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble - Songs of the Metropolis - 2013, WEB, FLAC (tracks), lossless

songs of the metropolis gilad atzmon & the orient house ensemble‘The best musician living in the world today’ ~ Robert Wyatt Жанр: Post-Bop, World Fusion, Contemporary Jazz Год издания: 2013 Издатель (лейбл): World Village Номер по каталогу: 450024 Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac) Тип рипа: tracks Битрейт аудио: lossless Продолжительность: 53:26 Источник (релизер): WEB Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: front + booklet.pdfТреклист: 1. Paris 2. Tel Aviv 3. Buenos Aires 4. Vienna 5. Manhattan 6. Scarborough 7. Moscow 8. Somewhere in Italy 9. Berlin  Лог проверки качества -----------------------DON'T MODIFY THIS FILE-----------------------PERFORMER: auCDtect Task Manager, ver. 1.5.1RC4 build 1.5.1.5Copyright (c) 2008-2010 y-soft. All rights reservedhttp://y-soft.orgANALYZER: auCDtect: CD records authenticity detector, version 0.8.2Copyright (c) 2004 Oleg Berngardt. All rights reserved.Copyright (c) 2004 Alexander Djourik. All rights reserved.FILE: 09 - Berlin.flac Size: 13601358 Hash: 21C0431957B9AF4EF6BD610E3EADCBF8 Accuracy: -m0 Conclusion: CDDA 100% Signature: 4E4A8A3BD1B019862AE9EC9FFB4F3859449CB170FILE: 08 - Somewhere in Italy.flac Size: 39892639 Hash: 0D59CCFBBEFE7916E644A8827C8FDC07 Accuracy: -m0 Conclusion: CDDA 100% Signature: 9F19986A3E836FD517A4FD303FB9508EDDF0C991FILE: 07 - Moscow.flac Size: 30763185 Hash: 9453672EB1801F76DDDDA8097CB9EDD1 Accuracy: -m0 Conclusion: CDDA 100% Signature: D47F37A8F060E3BBDD91F994D69A2D5C2470E998FILE: 06 - Scarborough.flac Size: 57100593 Hash: 0F81AAD1D7575BB20DFACC008ADD7F02 Accuracy: -m0 Conclusion: CDDA 100% Signature: 7241CCFBEEC8FD84BA1FB6C242684D799C4B41DEFILE: 05 - Manhattan.flac Size: 29691552 Hash: 2D38AC06C360CCFE64E0571004856E96 Accuracy: -m0 Conclusion: CDDA 99% Signature: 648D1A7869D66DB53198D6DE69F6FFCF55CA7055FILE: 04 - Vienna.flac Size: 29567684 Hash: 4A9AAA2C94629F7C3B2AA8989380D9B4 Accuracy: -m0 Conclusion: CDDA 100% Signature: 6AF5915DEC36F0169CABCAEFE69C19319F906197FILE: 03 - Buenos Aires.flac Size: 39655386 Hash: 9E386CEF25DFBCEB5842A5C139FA9B6E Accuracy: -m0 Conclusion: CDDA 100% Signature: 7E1DD9EAE1B697EF46F0C05050582191D107E10EFILE: 02 - Tel Aviv.flac Size: 40035304 Hash: F3FA7A1BA32911853DBBA17B884932E5 Accuracy: -m0 Conclusion: CDDA 100% Signature: 6974663F7E72F14D761596EA16E263F7FBC9782EFILE: 01 - Paris.flac Size: 27831783 Hash: 5EA774450ED07C7D67B90BA5795B1725 Accuracy: -m0 Conclusion: CDDA 99% Signature: 302AEE9177DA2683660F4C6B1E96028E822DF0F8  Об альбомеOnce upon a time and actually not that long ago, our cities conveyed some meaning, they were a unique reflection of ourselves: they were home to our thoughts, ideas and yearnings. When we were young, our cities belonged to us: their colours were our shades, their smells our scents; but more than anything else, their sounds were our songs. Each city had a melody, a resonance, a bell, an instrument, a voice. This album is a pursuit of the sound of the city. It is an attempt to find that magic instant where melodic texture evokes familiar feelings, when a harmonic shift brings you home, when a crescendo conjures memories of a kiss, when a glissando flies the American to Paris. Now, our planet weeps. Beauty is perhaps the last true form of spiritual resistance. The song is there to counter detachment and alienation. Let us start with the song of the metropolis, the songs of our cities. Paris, in the name of love; Tel Aviv, the birth of the tragedy; Buenos Aires, for the pathos; Vienna, for the charm of sweetness; Manhattan, in loving memory of America; Scarborough, as opposed to London; Moscow, in honour of greatness; Berlin, as a farewell to productivity; Somewhere in Italy but not too far from home. (Gilad Atzmon)Reedsman Gilad Atzmon is renowned for his virtuoso, high-speed, post-bop attack, and also for his equally hyperactive personality. This concept album explores a highly alternative resting ground, where nearly every song is a ballad, and even the occasionally faster-paced tunes emit an aura of relative calm. Atzmon’s concept is to dedicate his pieces to individual cities, inevitably conjuring an atmosphere of evocative cinematic suggestion. Although this Israeli wit has long resided in London, that’s one of the obvious cities missing from the tracklisting. Instead, Atzmon skirts from Berlin to Buenos Aires, and from Scarborough to Somewhere in Italy. Some of his followers might find this album frustratingly reflective, but Atzmon should be commended for changing his pace, and opening up his compositional space. It’s an imaginative side-step, and there are already many other Atzmon recordings that capture his fully accelerated soloing skills. Romantic introversion is at play on Paris, with a clarinet calm that could have passed through the lips of Acker Bilk. There’s a lounge bar easiness, but no blandness on show. Dappled piano and brushed snare and cymbals maximise the mood. All of this dwells within a big ballroom acoustic sound-space. Tel Aviv has a loping funk feel, with Atzmon wielding a flighty soprano saxophone. A doomy piano chord opens Buenos Aires, sombre and slow as Atzmon exudes his breathy horn purr. The luminous gossamer of Vienna hangs over a delicately traipsing procession. We’re back in that ballroom again... Scarborough is a variation on Scarborough Fair, doubtless inspired by that town’s jazz festival. Atzmon has pointedly chosen this as an alternative to London. A steady pulse emerges, and this is one of the album’s brisker tracks. It’s followed by the exceedingly melancholic Moscow, one of the album’s most visual pieces. Berlin only warrants two minutes, but it’s the most compressed spurt of all, a bierkeller sing-along, spiralling almost out of control. This is just a glimpse of the usual Atzmon lunatic ebullience. (Martin Longley, BBC)  СоставGilad Atzmon - alto & soprano saxophone, clarinet, accordion, vocals Frank Harrison - piano, Fender Rhodes, harmonium, synthesizer, glockenspiel, vocals Yaron Stavi - bass, vocals Eddie Hick - drums, vocals