DESCRIPTION:
Album: Oriental Bass
Artist: Renaud Garcia-Fons
Year: 1997
Genre: Jazz/ Contemporary Jazz

Playing a five-string acoustic bass, Renaud Garcia-Fons offers a type of global music that owes some of its potency and stylistic flexibility to jazz improvisation. But Garcia-Fons writes in the short liner note to Oriental Bass that his dream of a bass "half Gypsy and half Mauretanian" takes the instrument through Andalusia and the Mediterranean. His compositions travel the same routes, drawing in trombone, flutes, accordion, flamenco guitar, tablas, lute, derbouka, daf, and more. The mix of hand percussion from Eastern Europe and North Africa with flamenco flairs makes Garcia-Fons's music dizzying. This is very springy music, bouncing and bounding with choruses of horns pulsing powerfully. Few composers can balance, much less thrive in, the panoply of national styles that Garcia-Fons draws in with Oriental Bass.

Track List:
(01). Oriental Bass
(02). San Juan
(03). Goodjinns
(04). Oryssa
(05). Ghazali
(06). Jullundur
(07). Hommage À Ost Ad
(08). Bajo Andalúz
(09). Jam Buleria
(10). Djani

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