Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita - Transparent Water (2017)
Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita - Transparent Water
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, artwork| 60:24 min | 295 MB
Label: World Village / OTA Records | Tracks: 13 | Rls.date: 2017
World Fusion, Ethnic Jazz, Piano & Kora
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, artwork| 60:24 min | 295 MB
Label: World Village / OTA Records | Tracks: 13 | Rls.date: 2017
World Fusion, Ethnic Jazz, Piano & Kora
Omar Sosa would make an excellent global ambassador. He seems to make friends and erase boundary lines wherever he goes. Back in 2012, the Cuban pianist connected with Senegalese kora guru Seckou Keita through a mutual musical associate—drummer Marque Gilmore. Sosa and Keita struck up a quick friendship at that initial meeting, ultimately leading to the creation of this radiant collaboration. They laid down the basic tracks for the project in 2013 and added some other worldly (and otherworldly) voices to the mix in the ensuing years—Wu Tong on sheng (Chinese mouth organ) and bawu (a Chinese free-reed aerophone), Mieko Miyazaki on koto, E'Joung-Ju on geomungo (a Korean zither), Mosin Khan Kawa on nagadi (hand drum), Dominique Huchet on bird effects, and Gustavo Ovalles on an assortment of percussion instruments. The resultant music is a conflation of sound and culture like no other.
Sosa's sonic signature—a unique fusion of African musical languages, Cuban parlance, jazz allusions, minimalism, new age spirituality, and blues tinged phraseology—is firmly stamped on this music. But this isn't his to own alone. Ten of the thirteen tracks were penned with Keita and all but two of these pieces feature one or more of the aforementioned guests. Each track speaks to the shared responsibilities of creation and every one of them offers an engrossing vista crafted with the utmost sensitivity to balance of the emotional and sonic varieties. Songs like "Recaredo" and "Black Dream" are introspective and absorbing, leaving the listener rapt on high after a single listen; "Mining-Nah" plays out like a pure expression of joy, emitting rays of light through sound; "Thiossane" is haunting and mournful, dancing slowly in doleful fashion; and "Peace Keeping" is an ominous sound painting saturated in midnight blue.
Those keen on analysis will be tempted to try to break this music down to its component parts, disentangle instruments, and assign strict definitions to what's happening here. That's not advised. Part of the magic in Sosa's music has always been his ability to operate behind the curtain, working the seam where music and magic coexist. His brand of sorcery remains one of his greatest gifts, and it continues to hold sway over every person and project he gets involved with. Trying to overthink or intellectualize this music would miss the point entirely. Better to just let the cross-cultural dialogue and musical spirituality of Transparent Water baptize the ears. By DAN BILAWSKY
TRACKLIST
1. Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita – Dary (feat. Gustavo Ovalles) (05:08)
2. Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita – In the Forest (05:13)
3. Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita – Black Dream (feat. Mieko Miyazaki & Wu Tong) (05:23)
4. Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita – Mining-Nah (feat. Gustavo Ovalles) (04:54)
5. Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita – Tama-Tama (feat. Mosin Khan Kawa) (04:10)
6. Omar Sosa – Another Prayer (feat. Wu Tong & Mieko Miyazaki) (05:13)
7. Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita – Fatiliku (05:37)
8. Omar Sosa – Oni Yalorde (feat. Wu Tong) (03:53)
9. Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita – Peace Keeping (feat. Gustavo Ovalles & E'Joung-Ju) (04:48)
10. Omar Sosa – Moro Yeye (feat. Wu Tong & Gustavo Ovalles) (04:36)
11. Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita – Recaredo 1993 (feat. Wu Tong & Mieko Miyazaki) (04:19)
12. Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita – Zululand (feat. Gustavo Ovalles) (03:01)
13. Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita – Thiossane (feat. Mieko Miyazaki) (04:09)
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Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita / Transparent Water
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Track 2
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Track 3
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Track 4
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Track 5
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Track 6
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Track 7
Filename C:\pastacube\Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita - Transparent Water (2017) [FLAC]\07 - Fatiliku.wav
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Track 10
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Track 11
Filename C:\pastacube\Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita - Transparent Water (2017) [FLAC]\11 - Recaredo 1993 (feat. Wu Tong & Mieko Miyazaki).wav
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==== Log checksum B9ECE0B4DC7ABEB4D9C9348946E99311816F5C2BBA82052367FACC739E9A2402 ====
EAC extraction logfile from 8. March 2017, 13:35
Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita / Transparent Water
Used drive : ASUS BW-16D1HT Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
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Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
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2 | 5:08.61 | 5:13.54 | 23161 | 46689
3 | 10:22.40 | 5:23.46 | 46690 | 70960
4 | 15:46.11 | 4:10.61 | 70961 | 89771
5 | 19:56.72 | 4:54.39 | 89772 | 111860
6 | 24:51.36 | 5:13.24 | 111861 | 135359
7 | 30:04.60 | 5:37.69 | 135360 | 160703
8 | 35:42.54 | 3:53.16 | 160704 | 178194
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10 | 44:24.19 | 4:36.01 | 199819 | 220519
11 | 49:00.20 | 4:19.24 | 220520 | 239968
12 | 53:19.44 | 3:01.16 | 239969 | 253559
13 | 56:20.60 | 4:09.31 | 253560 | 272265
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Track 3
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Track 4
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Track 7
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Filename C:\pastacube\Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita - Transparent Water (2017) [FLAC]\09 - Peace Keeping (feat. Gustavo Ovalles & E'Joung-Ju).wav
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PERSONNEL
Omar Sosa: piano, Fender Rhodes, sampler, MicroKorg, vocals;
Seckou Keita: kora, djembe, talking drum, sabar, vocals;
Gustavo Ovalles: bata drums (10), culo'e puya, clave (12), maracas (1), guataca (4), calabaza (9);
Mieko Miyazaki: koto (6, 11, 13);
Wu Tong: sheng (3, 6, 11), bawu (8, 10);
Mosin Khan Kawa: nagadi (5);
E’Joung-Ju: geomungo (9);
Dominique Huchet: bird EFX.
Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita - Transparent Water (2017)
Thanks to the Original customer.