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Jazz
| Jun 2009
Reviews
Wedge
Reviewed 2009-08-01
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.
(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.
Recent airplay
Demi-Lune, Prima Donna, Sirtaki A Helsinki
3-18-2015 — Mar 18, 2015
Facéties
Music Casserole — Mar 20, 2010
L'abîme
No Cover, No Minimum — Mar 12, 2010
L'abîme
Music Rollercoaster — Oct 03, 2009
L'abîme
No Cover, No Minimum — Sep 25, 2009
Prima Donna
Transmission Overload — Sep 20, 2009
Charting
2009-08-02 — 2009-10-04
Jazz
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Oct 4 | 1 |
| Sep 27 | 2 |
| Sep 20 | 2 |
| Sep 13 | 1 |
| Sep 6 | 3 |
| Aug 30 | 2 |
| Aug 23 | 3 |
| Aug 16 | 1 |
Track listing
| 1. | Sirtaki A Helsinki | ||
| 2. | Prima Donna | ||
| 3. | Dare-Dard | ||
| 4. | Chaloupée | ||
| 5. | Steppe | ||
| 6. | Rose | ||
| 7. | Facéties | ||
| 8. | Après La Pluie | ||
| 9. | Blue Lady | ||
| 10. | Quintette | ||
| 11. | Mémoires | ||
| 12. | Night Run | ||
| 13. | Demi-Lune | ||
| 14. | La Danse Des Trois Chapeaux | ||
| 15. | Ne M'oublie Pas | ||
| 16. | L'abîme | ||
| 17. | Zig-Zag | ||
| 18. | Les Sept Erreurs |