| Lehman, Steve & Sélébéyone / Sélébéyone |
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| Album: | Sélébéyone | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Lehman, Steve & Sélébéyone | Added: | Mar 2017 | |
| Label: | Pi Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2017-04-12 | Pull Date: | 2017-06-14 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Jun 11 | Jun 4 | May 21 | Apr 23 | Apr 16 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 09, 2017: | Rebop Are You In Peace?, Laamb | 4. | May 19, 2017: | Rebop Are You In Peace? | |
| 2. | Jun 03, 2017: | Music Casserole Cognition | 5. | May 18, 2017: | No Cover, No Minimum Origine | |
| 3. | Jun 02, 2017: | Rebop Cognition | 6. | Apr 21, 2017: | No Cover, No Minimum Cognition |
| Album Review |
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| Fo Reviewed 2017-03-26 | ||
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STEVE LEHMAN: Sélébéyone Pi, 2016 AVANT-JAZZ / HIP-HOP – You can always count on alto saxophonist Lehman to deliver something you've never heard before. Here, his hyper-modern quintet teams up with two MC/DJs: Gaston Bandi Mic, from Senegal, raps in the Wolof language with an edgy attack; HPrizm, from NYC, brings deep and poetic rhymes in English. The best tracks are the ones where these forces are most delicately balanced. When it clicks, it's mind-blowing. All tracks clean. Fo’s Picks: 2, 4, 5, 6, 9 1. 6:07 – drone intro, ethereal piano vs hard-edged rap, angular sax comment 2. 5:57 – lyrical flow vs staccato squealing loops, jagged sax weaves through 3. 2:16 – reversed intro; quick Wolof rap over warped synths, staccato beat 4. 4:49 – alternates between mystical & brooding / kicking it hard & fast 5. 5:52 – uptempo sax/synth fusion; breathless voc enters over trippy breaks 6. 4:01 – seething political vocal over thick synth flow, sax accent, quick drums 7. 4:37 – darkly mystical: quick rapping, abstract tones & drones, open ending 8. 1:31 – same Wolof rap as #3, w/ less abstract but still-mysterious backing 9. 6:19 – weird sampled intro, explodes into abstract jazz w/quick Wolof rap Gaston Bandi Mic, HPrizm - vocals Steve Lehman, Maciek Laserre - saxophones Carlos Homs - keyboards Drew Gress - bass Damion Reid - drums [ Fo ] - 26 March 2017 | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Laamb | 5. | Cognition | |||
| 2. | Are You In Peace? | 6. | Hybrid | |||
| 3. | Akap | 7. | Dualism | |||
| 4. | Origine | 8. | Geminou | |||
| 9. | Bamba | |||||