 Исполнитель: Danilo PerezНазвание альбома: Panama 500 Год выпуска: 2014 Формат файлов: mp3|320 kbps Размер архива: 120,42 mb Скачать с: rusfolder.com
Perez combines Panamanian, European, Latin-Hispanic, and Native Central American styles into a beautifully coherent musical feast, using two iconic jazz trios, strings, percussion, and native instruments, chants, and narratives to convey images and stories of Panamanian mythology, folklore, and personal memory. The result is musical magic and wonder, evocative of inner and outer worlds. In this respect, it becomes part of the repertoire of impressionist tone poems, such as Debussy's La Mer, or, closer to home, Villa Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras. While the album has fifteen tracks, each consisting of its own musical development, it emerges as a unified composition that is best heard in its entirety.
Three of the tracks will illustrate how Perez weaves together several ensembles and diverse musical influences. (A detailed description of all tracks, with comments by Perez, is available at Mack Avenue Records: http://www.mackavenue.com/artists/detail/danilo_perez/)
"Rediscovery of the South Sea" is a prelude that takes the listener to the place of Balboa's first encounters. A laconic mixture of sounds is followed by a dance-like sequence with rhythm supplied by plucked strings, sticks, claves, and hand drums evocative of warm forests and beaches. Roman Diaz enters briefly as a storyteller. The first trio, consisting of Perez, bassist Ben Street, and drummer Adam Cruz frames the music. "Rediscovery" is suggestive of sequential images like Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, in this case a walk on an island paradise. Violins reinforce the imagery with colorful and impressionistic suggestibility, with Perez playing reflective chord clusters. The violins return with a rumba-like dance sequence aided by percussion, and Diaz recapitulates his narrative.
"Panama 500" is sustained by the continous rhythm of La Denesa, a traditional Panamanian folkloric dance. The second trio of John Pattitucci, Brian Blade and Perez forms the rhythm section. The atmosphere is made festive by violins and sensuous rhythmic pulses. Here, Perez's piano is vaguely reminiscent of Erik Satie's Gymnopedies with their limbic lightness. Throughout the album, Perez negotiates seamlessly and imaginatively between European classical and varied Latin American influences.
"Reflections On The South Sea" (i.e., the Pacific Ocean that faces south of Panama as the Isthmus twists between two continents) opens reflectively with an elegant contrapuntal exchange between the piano and cello. The rhythm develops a tango-like tension and accentuation, as if influenced by Astor Piazzola. Throughout the album, there are allusions to Brazilian, Argentinian, and other South American and Carribean musical idioms. Perez establishes a fascinating triangle between trio jazz, European classical variations, and a mix of Latin-Hispanic influences. All the while, native Panamanian and deep historical African gestures hold the music in a secure place, like the stilts on an elevated beach house. When you go to this place of Perez' invention, you'll want to stay. (VICTOR L. SCHERMER, AAJ)
01. Rediscovery of the South Sea
02. Panama 500
03. Reflections on the South Sea
04. Abita Yala (America)
05. Gratitude
06. The Canal Suite: Land of Hope
07. The Canal Suite: Premonition in Rhythm
08. The Canal Suite: Melting Pot (Chocolito)
09. The Expedition
10. Narration to Reflections on the South Sea
11. Panama Viejo
12. Celebration of Our Land
Danilo Pérez: piano, cowbell
John Patitucci: electric bass (2); acoustic bass (3, 4, 9)
Brian Blade: drums (2 – 4, 9)
Ben Street: bass (1, 5, 8, 11)
Adam Cruz: drums (1, 5, 8, 11)
Alex Hargreaves: violin (1, 2, 8)
Sachi Patitucci: cello (3)
Román Díaz: percussion, chant (1)
Rogério Boccato: percussion (2, 3, 8)
Milagros Blades: ripcador (1, 7)
caja, pujador (7)
Ricaurte Villareal: caja, güiro (1)
José Angel Colman: vocals in guna language (3)
Eulogio Olaideginia Benítez: gala bissu, gala ildi (4) (12)
José Antonio Hayans: Gammuburwi (12)
Marden Paniza: director and coordinator of guna musicians, author of the narration
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