Aubry, René / Play Time
Album: Play Time   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Aubry, René   Added:Jun 2009
Label:Hopi Mesa  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2009-08-02 Pull Date: 2009-10-04 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Oct 4 Sep 27 Sep 20 Sep 13 Sep 6 Aug 30 Aug 23 Aug 16
Airplays: 1 2 2 1 3 2 3 1

Recent Airplay
1. Mar 18, 2015: 3-18-2015
Demi-Lune, Prima Donna, Sirtaki A Helsinki
4. Oct 03, 2009: Music Rollercoaster
L'abîme
2. Mar 20, 2010: Music Casserole
Facéties
5. Sep 25, 2009: No Cover, No Minimum
L'abîme
3. Mar 12, 2010: No Cover, No Minimum
L'abîme
6. Sep 20, 2009: Transmission Overload
Prima Donna

Album Review
Wedge
Reviewed 2009-08-01
Chamber jazz with a touch of gypsy jazz, very clean-cut stuff. It's not at the energy level of Django Reinhardt style "hot club" music but has the same elements: perky acoustic guitar, violin, mandolin, etc. Piano & some synths too. An open-air artistic feel that's quite proper but still has a sense of fun -- there's a semi-sarcastic faux-sultriness to 3, for instance, and cartoony fun on 16. Instrumental, FCC clean.
(Full track-by-track is on Zookeeper.)

1- Calm, clean melody. Slowish, over busy triplet guitar. Speeds up by the end.
2- Coolly popping swing, midtempo
3- A complex tango. Mid/fast, fun
4- Spare, playful. A softly fun midtempo one.
5- Some tension. Gets into a strong flow w/some Eastern European flair.
6- Midtempo, slinky. Not quite a tango.
7- Fast and whispery intro, into snappy theme
8- Mid/fast. Tense chase-scene feel.
9- Calm, simple chiming.
10- Perky, quite hot club-like
11- Swirling synth-string drama, piping oboe(?) Slow. Later, a busier gypsy sound with banjo.
12- Tense, sneaky, and quiet. Soundtrack feel. Cool ending, where the piano really builds up.
13- Quite classical feeling. Cute piano exercising, maybe too cute
14- Pattering 9/8, quick and catchy
15- Slowish, with a cutesly classical theme.
16- Playfully sneaky, like mice thieves tiptoeing around.
17- Mid/fast but not busy. A very clean, harp-like sound; you could hear this at an art-gallery opening.
18- Flowing and sweet, quite soundtracky.

Track Listing
1. Sirtaki A Helsinki   10. Quintette
2. Prima Donna   11. Mémoires
3. Dare-Dard   12. Night Run
4. Chaloupée   13. Demi-Lune
5. Steppe   14. La Danse Des Trois Chapeaux
6. Rose   15. Ne M'oublie Pas
7. Facéties   16. L'abîme
8. Après La Pluie   17. Zig-Zag
9. Blue Lady   18. Les Sept Erreurs