| Aubry, René / Play Time |
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| Album: | Play Time | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Aubry, René | Added: | Jun 2009 | |
| Label: | Hopi Mesa | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-08-02 | Pull Date: | 2009-10-04 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Oct 4 | Sep 27 | Sep 20 | Sep 13 | Sep 6 | Aug 30 | Aug 23 | Aug 16 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 18, 2015: | 3-18-2015 Demi-Lune, Prima Donna, Sirtaki A Helsinki | 4. | Oct 03, 2009: | Music Rollercoaster L'abîme | |
| 2. | Mar 20, 2010: | Music Casserole Facéties | 5. | Sep 25, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum L'abîme | |
| 3. | Mar 12, 2010: | No Cover, No Minimum L'abîme | 6. | Sep 20, 2009: | Transmission Overload Prima Donna |
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2009-08-01 | ||
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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. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Sirtaki A Helsinki | 10. | Quintette | |||
| 2. | Prima Donna | 11. | Mémoires | |||
| 3. | Dare-Dard | 12. | Night Run | |||
| 4. | Chaloupée | 13. | Demi-Lune | |||
| 5. | Steppe | 14. | La Danse Des Trois Chapeaux | |||
| 6. | Rose | 15. | Ne M'oublie Pas | |||
| 7. | Facéties | 16. | L'abîme | |||
| 8. | Après La Pluie | 17. | Zig-Zag | |||
| 9. | Blue Lady | 18. | Les Sept Erreurs |