Rituals - Nicola Conte

Rating: 6.5/10 
Sound Quality: 320 kb/s
Format: Mp3
Record Label: Schema Records
Year Released: 2008
Album Covers: Included
Pass: radiodada
Links: rapidshare (Disc), rapidshare (Album Covers)

Note From Dada!

Ώτα μου μιας και ο Conte βρίσκεται ανάμεσα στις συχνότερες επισκέψεις ή αναζητήσεις σας σε τούτο το blog, όπως έχει φανεί άλλωστε κι από τα στατιστικά στοιχεία (ή γνωστότερα ως roufianalytics), σας ποστάρω την τελευταία και εξαιρετική δισκογραφική του δουλειά (κυκλοφορία 2008) με τον τίτλο "Rituals". Δίσκος που αποτελείται 11 συνθέσεις του ίδιου, "ντυμένες" με τον γνώριμο acid jazz / new jazz ήχο του Conte, καθώς και δύο διασκευές: του πασίγνωστου "Caravan" (D. Ellington, J. Tizol) και του "Macedonia" (Dusko Goykovich). Διασκευές οι οποίες ενώ είναι τουλάχιστον αξιοπρεπείς, σίγουρα όμως δεν είναι αυτές που κερδίζουν τον ακροατή αυτού του δίσκου. Κομμάτια όπως το εξαιρετικό "Black Is The Graceful Veil" με την πανέμορφη ερμηνεία της Kim Sanders, το "Karma Flowers" με την Chiara Civello" ή ακόμα τα "Like Leaves In The Wind" & "The Nubian Queens" με τη ξεχωριστή φωνή του Jose James, δείχνουν για μία ακόμα φορά ότι ο Conte καταθέτει αξιόλογα δείγματα γραφής και εμπνεύσεως.

Καλή ακρόαση!

Radiodada

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About Nicola Conte

Nicola Conte is an Italian DJ, producer and guitar player known for introducing an innovative style of acid jazz that incorporates bossa nova themes, melodies drawn from Italian film scores of the 1960s, easy listening themes, and ethnic Indian music.

Conte, a classically-trained musician, is mastermind of a collective of acid jazz revivalists, "The Fez Collective," based in the Italian town of Bari, and the Schema label, their record label for promoting their distinctly Italian approach to acid jazz.

Conte's first album was Jet Sounds of 2000. The single "Bossa Per Due" gained international recognition and was an underground hit. It was used almost immediately for a prime-time commercial for Acura automobiles. The album was licensed for American distribution by Thievery Corporation's Eighteenth Street Lounge (ESL) label in the summer of 2001 as Bossa Per Due, and was slightly reconfigured version of the Italian Jet Sounds album. This was followed by the Jet Sounds Revisited remix album in late 2002. Two years later, Blue Note's French subsidiary released Conte's next album Other Directions. In November 2008, Conte released his latest album, Rituals.

Conte also produced albums by other artists such as Rosalia De Souza and Paolo Achenza Trio