| Truffaz, Erik / Saloua |
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| Album: | Saloua | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Truffaz, Erik | Added: | Jul 2005 | |
| Label: | Blue Note | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2005-07-25 | Pull Date: | 2005-09-26 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Sep 18 | Sep 11 | Aug 28 | Aug 21 | Aug 14 | Aug 7 | Jul 31 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 27, 2015: | Arabology Saloua | 4. | Sep 16, 2005: | beat.net chapter 17.0: neither indecent or obscene Whispering | |
| 2. | Jan 20, 2015: | Arabology Saloua | 5. | Sep 09, 2005: | No Cover, No Minimum, No Limit Saloua | |
| 3. | Nov 17, 2005: | Flowq Et La Vie Continue | 6. | Aug 26, 2005: | No Cover, No Minimum Et La Vie Continue |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2005-07-29 | ||
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Truffaz's mix of dance beats and jazz trumpet started out in a coolly downbeat zone. Here, he heats things up -- which is a nice change of pace, but veers into TV-commercial pop at times. Tunisian singer Mounir Troudi takes a bigger role (he's on one track of Truffaz's "Mantis" CD), adding to the album's exotic "world" feel. Searing electric guitar adds spice and creates psych-jam space (8,9,11). Tracks 2 and 4 include outright rap. Truffaz's crisp trumpet veers each track into jazz territory and sounds almost out of place on tracks like #5. Recommended, although I suspect this session gets less satisfying as the element of surprise wears off. 1- Exotic North African expansiveness. Slow feel w/midtempo beat. 2- Dub with rap vocal. Slow, spare. 3- Downtempo oasis, mellow 4- *FCC* "shit breaks loose" at +1:30. Tunisian(?) vocals and English rap: Bouncy midtempo pop 5- Mid/slow, burning 6- Experimental! Dub + psych jam w/simple jazz ending 7- Slow landscape 8- Mid/fast and swirling 9- Whoa. Big guitar fuzz over a happy tune (it'd be cheesy rock in another context). Proggy solo. 10- Gentle, soft, acoustic 11- Big, spacey, slow, w/hyper synth squeaks. Slow start. 12- Mid/slow, with dub elements | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Saloua | 7. | Ines | |||
| 2. | Big Wheel | 8. | Tantrik | |||
| 3. | Whispering | 9. | Ghost Drummer | |||
| 4. | Yabous | 10. | Le Soleil D'eline | |||
| 5. | Gedech | 11. | Spirale | |||
| 6. | Dubophone | 12. | Et La Vie Continue |