| Land Of Kush / Big Mango, The |
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| Album: | Big Mango, The | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Land Of Kush | Added: | Oct 2013 | |
| Label: | Constellation Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-11-07 | Pull Date: | 2014-01-09 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Jan 12 | Jan 5 | Dec 29 | Dec 22 | Dec 15 | Dec 8 | Dec 1 | Nov 24 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 09, 2014: | Ranch... or Cool Ranch? The Big Mango | 4. | Jan 03, 2014: | World Tour St Stefano | |
| 2. | Jan 09, 2014: | Rebop Second Skin | 5. | Dec 28, 2013: | Music Casserole Drift Beguine | |
| 3. | Jan 04, 2014: | Around The Bend Second Skin | 6. | Dec 19, 2013: | Rebop The Pit (Part 1), Second Skin |
| Album Review |
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| Lestrygonian Reviewed 2013-10-30 | ||
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EXPERIMENTAL WORLD JAZZ, disparate influences blended into an epic jazz fusion stew. Written as “a love letter to Cairo” by leader Osama Shalabi after living a block away from Tahrir Square during the 2011 Arab Spring, the large ensemble finds intersections between free jazz, Middle Eastern / North African modes, and Brazilian tropicalia in a jazz-rock context. Female vocals from Montreal indie bands make most songs ideal for indie rock DJs as well. Often subtle and restrained, other times raucous and bombastic, the spirited top-notch musicianship makes for a wild ride throughout; there’s something here for everyone. RIYL Zorn, Nels Cline Singers, Trilok Gurtu, Sao Paulo Underground, Ramzi’s Arabology show 1. (3:25) lots of random atonality, vocal ululations, electronics 2. **(5:43) Instrumental. Soft restrained solo keyboard for the first half, low synth drone accompanies skronky sax solo sounding like Pharaoh Sanders meets Colin Stetson 3. (7:30) Jangly jazz-rock romp with angelic vocals, looping guitar ostinatos and huge horn section 4. (2:16) Calm piano solo for the first half, then horns and vocals bring in a soft reprise of the theme from 3 5. (5:47) Piano and electronics-heavy jazz-rock, instrumental 6. (4:22) Epic and moody piece, starts mellow and builds into an impassioned dark electric ballad 7. ***(5:47) Instrumental, my favorite track. A noisy, fast jazz-rock take on percussive Gnawa style music with warped horn solos, incredible; ends with a long bowed bass solo 8. *(6:41) A rolling groove with dense string harmonies, call it orchestral Sephardic baroque-rock; shifts between Eastern polyrhythms and jazzy swung patterns. 9. (6:48) Straight 90s indie rock guitar riffs with some exotic percussion and blurred Joni Mitchell-esque vocals, builds in intensity until reaching soaring math-rock crescendos, ends with a lilting flute-driven folksy ditty | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Faint Praise | 5. | Sharm El Bango | |||
| 2. | Second Skin | 6. | Mobil Nil | |||
| 3. | The Pit (Part 1) | 7. | St Stefano | |||
| 4. | The Pit (Part 2) | 8. | Drift Beguine | |||
| 9. | The Big Mango | |||||