Romano, Sclavis, Texier, Le Querrec - African Flashback (2005)

We continue our (virtual) trip to Africa with the third collaboration of Romano, Sclavis, Texier & Le Querrec (after "Carnet de Routes" and "Suite Africaine")



If the previous records get 5 stars, this one deserves 6!

".......this set can be as gracefully swinging as the best straightahead jazz, as exuberant as village-wedding music, as edgily cacophonous as a traffic jam in the heat and as funky as a late-period Miles band; the latter is down to Romano, who can move easily between rich, Africanised percussion sonorities and a slamming take-no-prisoners backbeat. Sclavis is teasingly lyrical or abrasively free on clarinets and sax, and Texier's basslines could make an album on their own. Delicious." (John Fordham - The Guardian)



http://rapidshare.de/files/30609804/RSTLAF.rar

mp3 @ 320 kbps, no pw

[still looking for "Suite Africaine" in decent quality, if someone could find a copy...]