| Actis Band / Allende |
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| Album: | Allende | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Actis Band | Added: | May 2006 | |
| Label: | Leo Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-06-25 | Pull Date: | 2006-08-27 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Aug 27 | Aug 20 | Aug 6 | Jul 30 | Jul 16 | Jul 9 | Jul 2 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 23, 2014: | Jump, Jive, and Jazz Noche De Fraga | 4. | Aug 04, 2006: | Memory Select Noche De Fraga | |
| 2. | Aug 25, 2006: | Memory Select Bolivar | 5. | Jul 28, 2006: | Memory Select Sentiero Del Re | |
| 3. | Aug 18, 2006: | Memory Select Krk | 6. | Jul 25, 2006: | Umami Jazz Program Zorro |
| Album Review |
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| MichaS Reviewed 2006-06-25 | ||
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Jazz-Rock from Italy, with some Mediterranean/Balkan sensibility and great takes on old-style ballroom dance music. A sax-based quintet traversing the Funk-Rock-FreeJazz space, and does a mighty good job at it. Lots of fun. 1. Funk-Rock-Jazz. Starts with noises and then the sax enters. *2. Fast, tense, repetitive sax bakbone with great bass and guitar bits. The last part of this piece is a beautiful free jazz mayhem. *3. Slow, spacey electronic noises opening to a nice guitar’n’sax piece. *4. A nice take on old-style cha cha cha. *5. B movie space noises lead to a funky piece 80-ish Jazz piece based on old-style dance music. 6. Mid-tempo cha-cha-cha. Slows down 1:30 min into the track and relaxes into a nice bass solo, subsequently leading to mad talking in Italian and other noises and back to the main sax cha-cha-cha. *7. A great dramatic Sax opening to a nice cha-cha-cha (guitar solo 4 min into the track) 8. Quieter and moody, scattered drumming and strings in the background and trippy noises joining later. Becomes structured midway with the typical sax work. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Allende | 6. | Zorro | |||
| 2. | Krk | 7. | Bolivar | |||
| 3. | Sentiero Del Re | 8. | Kamakura | |||
| 4. | Noche De Fraga | 9. | Sandokan | |||
| 5. | Mock Democracy | 10. | We Are The Ufo |